Faculty lament that students often use Google searches rather than academic sources for research. But now there are AI tools that both restrict their searches to academic publications and manage the results to greatly speed up the writing process. Perhaps the most powerful of these tools is Research Rabbit. Requiring students to use Research Rabbit will greatly improve their work, and best of all, it’s completely free.
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I would like to know how faculty and students would get access to the full text of research articles that they found of interest. Or do the RR citations lead you to paywalls that require you to pay for access to the articles of interest. I suspect that most TTP readers can get access to full-text from their campus library or use similar tools (e.g., Web of Science or Scopus) for their research.
We are an Alma/Primo VE campus, and I have started to instruct faculty and students to search our catalog using an article’s DOI. Then it’s a simple cut-and-paste process.
I wonder if Research Rabbit will incorporate any kind of OpenURL linking capabilities? That would be even better.
Hi Steven:
Yes, if the full text is not available online, then the student will need to copy and paste the citation into their own institution’s library page to get to it.
John