Text-based AI tools can be used to help brainstorm and generate ideas and topics, create study aids, develop outlines,manage projects, and more.
AI models are exposed to billions of images downloaded from the internet. Then new images are created via text input based upon the patterns found in the massive data sets. Most generative AI art generators have limited or no free access. The tools below do provide some free access.
The following selected AI tools search scholarly literature, explore citations and visualize connections between research. All of the tools offer free versions, but most require that you register for an an account.
Keep in mind that since AI cannot search past a paywall (journal/database site), these tools have access to less full-text sources than our library databases. Also, the articles that an AI tool finds may have been from a preprint, a predatory publisher or retracted.