Find Articles & Make Connections
- LitMaps
One of the most popular tools. Start with a seed paper to discover and visualize sources and get updates on future publications. Freemium. - Open Knowledge Maps
The world's largest AI-based search engine for scientific knowledge. Get an overview of a topic with visualization: similar items are clustered together. Identify related concepts. Free & Open. - Connected Papers
Get visual overviews of a field, and discover the most relevant prior and derivative works. Freemium. - Research Rabbit
Like Spotify for papers--recommendations, visualizations, collections, alerts, and sharing. Free Forever. - Inciteful
Start with a seed paper to discover related articles. Or, start with two papers to see how they are connected in the literature. Free & Open. - Consensus
Consensus is a search engine that uses language models to surface papers and synthesize insights from academic research papers. Freemium.
Get the Full Text
- LibKey Nomad
A browser extension that gives you one-click access to scholarly articles provided by TXST University Libraries. - Open Access Helper
There are more than 46 million Open Access versions of otherwise “paywalled” scientific articles.
Open Access Helper is designed to help you get easy & legal access to these documents, plus assist with convenient access of your library’s resources! Free. - Browzine
A mobile device app that allows easy access to Texas State University's academic journals. Best for getting notifications about new published issues of specific journal titles. Free.
Create Custom Research Assistant Apps
- ResearchGPTAI Research Assistant. Search 200M academic papers from Consensus, get science-based answers, and draft content with accurate citations.
- GPT-4 Research Assistant (GitHub)The GPT-4 Research Assistant is a tool designed to leverage the power of GPT-4 in assisting with academic research. It searches for academic papers on ArXiv, identifies the most promising paper based on a given search term, downloads the paper, extracts its contents, and then summarizes it. The tool also suggests a new search term for subsequent research.
- How to create your personal AI-powered research assistant in less than 10 minutesMake ChatGPT a reliable research assistant.
- ScholarAIScholarAI is a plugin designed to provide users with access to a database of peer-reviewed articles and academic research. ScholarAI connects the LLMs that power ChatGPT with tailored access to open access articles. Users can directly query relevant peer-reviewed studies to find reliable information for their scientific research, technical projects, and funding proposals.