Research Guides: HIST 280: Advanced Research Techniques

AI Search for Scholarly Articles

AI-Powered Scholarly Search Engines
1. Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org)
  - Uses AI to find relevant research papers, summarize key points, and highlight influential citations.
2. Research Rabbit (researchrabbit.ai)
  - AI-powered tool that suggests papers based on your interests and creates citation networks.
Traditional Scholarly Databases with AI Features
1. CORE (core.ac.uk)
  - Aggregates open-access research papers from universities worldwide.
2. Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)
  - Search for academic papers, set up alerts, and find related works.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Global is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering 5 million citations and 2.5 million full-text works from thousands of universities all over the world.
PQDT Open - Proquest Open Access Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Dissertations & Theses @ Roosevelt University This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to RU students' dissertations and theses back to 2003. Please contact Laura Mills, University Archivist, if you cannot find the dissertation in the database. lmills@roosevelt.edu

Searching Shortcuts

Explanation	Example
Phrase Search (Using Quotation Marks	Looks for complete phrase exactly as it is typed	"human cause for climate change"
Site:	Focuses on specific domain types .com (commercial), .org (organization), .gov (government), .edu (education)	site:.gov 2016 presidential voting statistics
Related:	Finds similar sites	related:put the url of another site
Link:	Finds sites that are linked to a site or have used the site as a reference	link:put the url of another site
Filetype:	Finds information in a specific file format (e.g., .doc, .ppt, .pdf, .xls, etc)	filetype: .xls 2016 presidential election results