The Research Assistant is only available to current employees and students.
Authentication through your Purdue Login is required to access this service.
Library Search AI Research Assistant is a generative AI-powered tool designed to streamline time-intensive tasks. It enables users to query academic content in natural language and utilizes the breadth of our library to pinpoint five resources (journal articles, dissertations, or eBooks) that can aid in answering users' questions. The tool distills the most pertinent information from the descriptions/abstracts of each resource to craft the response's overview that includes in-line references to the sources to provide transparency in how each source contributed to the response. Beneath the overview, these sources and additional sources are available for further exploration of the subject and for verifying the tool's responses.
Research Assistant functionalities include: