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Links to AI Research Resources & Research Tools

Note: The FDC makes an effort to stay current in terms of AI research tools; however, we often fall a bit behind. If a link is not working, please notify us. Additionally, if you are aware of a great tool not listed on this page, please send an email to rigolinr@newpaltz.edu. 

How to Use Generative AI in Educational Research by Jasper Roe

From Cambridge UP’s Summary:

Artificial Intelligence technologies have impacted our world in ways we could not have imagined a decade ago. Generative AI (GenAI), a powerful, complex and general use subset of AI has become available to the public in recent years. GenAI’s effect on education, research, and academic practice is far-reaching and exciting, yet also deeply concerning. While GenAI has the potential to offer transformation in the practice of educational research, there are few resources which clarify why, when, and how these tools might be used ethically and sensitively.

Association of Research Libraries: ARL/CNI AI Scenarios AI Influenced Futures

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) (organizations that support research libraries and information technology in higher education) have released the Deluxe Edition of the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures, a scenario planning resource developed through extensive consultation with over 300 stakeholders. The publication includes a set of AI-driven future scenarios, a strategic context report summarizing community insights, and interviews with thought leaders, all aimed at helping academic research organizations navigate and shape the uncertain impact of AI on the research ecosystem. (2025)

A current (as of Fall 2025) deeper dive into the tools, including those provided by library databases. Not a required video, but one that some people might find interesting:

Featured Tools:

Logo for Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine.

Perplexity: General search tool (AKA “The Google Killer”)

Logo for LitMaps, a tool that maps connections among research articles and authors.

LitMaps: Great for understanding the connections among articles/authors. 

ogo for Research Rabbit, a tool for discovering and visualizing related academic papers.

Research Rabbit: Helps researchers discover related academic papers and visualize connections between them through citation analysis.

Logo for Elicit, an AI tool that summarizes and compares research sources.

Elicit: Can summarize sources, providing a helpful way to compare them.

Logo for Consensus, an AI assistant for finding relevant scholarly research.

Consensus: Like the other tools listed above, Consensus can help you find relevant research. It also will summarize sources. What makes it interesting is the fact that has a “Consensus Meter” with displays the overall consensus on a topic. How? “By analyzing proportion of studies supporting different viewpoints.”

Logo for Recite, a citation checker that compares in-text references to your bibliography.

Recite This tool checks citations. Very simply, Recite checks that your in-text citations match the reference list at the end of your work.

Logo to Answer This one of the most powerful search and research tools.

Answer This Another lit review tool. 

The logo for Storm, and AI research tool created by Stanford University.

Storm: From the developers at Stanford: STORM (Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking) is a research project from Stanford University designed to generate long, grounded, Wikipedia-like articles from scratch. 

Research Synthesizer/Summarizer

NotebookLM: Once sources have been identified, you can then use NotebookLM to summarize, synthesize, and provide an overview of your research. (Tagline: Understand Anything)

 

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