ChatGPT can help with planning your library research.

Get ideas for topics, keywords, and which library databases to search.

ChatGPT can be a useful tool when it comes to deciding what your specific topic should be for a research paper.

You can use it to:

1. Narrow down your topic ideas.

2. Come up with keywords for searching in library databases.

3. Construct a search strategy for those databases.

4. Recommend possible library databases to use for your topic.

If you'd like to try it, use this handout: Generate topics for your research paper with ChatGPT.

Beyond ChatGPT

Additional Large Language Models

ChatGPT is not the only language model. It’s worth trying these other models as they have different strengths & weaknesses than ChatGPT. 

All of these models have both free and paid versions.

Click to flip through each card below to learn about the model.

Learn more in Beyond ChatGPT.

Academic research tools powered by generative AI.

Elicit
Find answers from 175 million research papers. Elicit uses semantic similarity, which finds papers related to your question even if they don't use the same keywords. Learn more about Elicit.

Scite AI Assistant
A conversational tool made by Scite that lets you ask questions in simple language and get answers backed by real, up to date references. Think of it like ChatGPT with real, up to date references, tailor-made for anyone discovering, understanding, or writing research. Learn more about Scite.

SciSpace
An AI-powered research platform designed to assist researchers, students, and academics in efficiently managing, understanding, and producing academic research. It offers an all-in-one suite of AI tools tailored for literature search, review, academic writing, citation management, and collaboration to accelerate scientific discovery and learning. Learn more about SciSpace.

Connected Papers
A unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work. Learn more about Connected Papers.

Other apps built on the same technology

There are many apps built on language models.

Since many models (like ChatGPT) have an API, developers all over the world are building apps based on them. 

In fact there are so many that it’s difficult to keep track of them all! 

There are apps for 

• writing

• presenting slides

• analyzing data

• reading and studying

• creating images and videos

• working with music and speech

• and more.

Use a search engine like Future Tools to find them.

If you are a coder, you can use the OpenAI Developer Platform to create your own apps.