Generating Research Ideas: AI tools analyze data to identify trends, gaps, and emerging topics, helping refine research questions. They suggest innovative angles by recognizing patterns in existing literature or datasets. (You can still Ask-a-Librarian.)
Developing Search Strategies: AI tools can identify keywords for better discovery of resources, recommend appropriate library databases, and develop search strategies for those databases. (You can still Ask-a-Librarian.)
Finding Relevant Information: AI tools use natural language processing (NLP) to locate relevant articles, papers, and datasets quickly. These tools help you find pertinent and high-quality sources by analyzing content and citations. (You can still Ask-a-Librarian.)
Data Scraping: AI tools can scrape data from websites, automatically collecting large amounts of relevant information for analysis. This method has become increasingly popular in research to efficiently gather datasets from web sources.
Data Analysis: AI tools enhance data analysis by recognizing patterns in complex datasets, automating repetitive tasks like data cleaning, and generating predictive insights.
Citation Management: AI-powered tools simplify citation management by automatically organizing references, generating bibliographies, and ensuring adherence to style guidelines. (Citation managers do this, too!).
Using AI to find an article? Searching Google, PubMed, or some other website? LibKey Nomad is a browser add-on that facilitates access to articles available from St. Thomas Library subscriptions without needing to go to the library website. And because it is a browser tool, you will know if an article is available before you have to log in to your University of St. Thomas library account. LibKey Nomad is available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, and Brave internet browsers. Get started downloading LibKey Nomad here.
Follow these steps to add Libkey Nomad as an extension to your Chrome browser:
Follow these steps to add LibKey Nomad to your Edge browser:
You must then allow extensions from other stores:
Once LibKey Nomad is installed, you will be prompted to select an institution. You can type thomas in the box to get a short list quickly. Click on University of St. Thomas to complete the process.
When you land on a page with an article that is available to download, you get a banner alert at the bottom of your screen. Click to download the PDF. If you are off-campus, you will be routed through the proxy server to authenticate as an authorized user.
LibKey Nomad will connect you to our GET IT service when you land on a page where we don't have current access. In this example from Current Nutrition Reports, the Library does not have access and clicking "Access Options" will give you the option of submitting an Interlibrary Loan request.
