Research Strategies

Asta includes two core functions: Finding Papers and Summarizing Literature. Asta helps you discover relevant research using an LLM-powered search experience. It turns complex research questions into structured, comprehensive summaries—every claim backed by a clickable citation and often an inline excerpt. Great support for a literature review to supplement your findings on library databases.

Google Scholar Labs is a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions. Scholar Labs is powered by AI to act as an advanced research tool, helping you tackle questions that require looking at a subject from multiple angles. It analyzes your question to identify key topics, aspects and relationships, then searches all of them on Scholar. After evaluating the results, it identifies papers that answer your overall research question, explaining how each paper addresses it.

If you find a PDF through Google Scholar searching, there is a PDF extension with AI capabilities that will assist in navigating and summarizing articles. Click here to install the Chrome web browser extension, and check the Video Tutorials or Using Google tabs for a walk through on its uses, limitations, and advantages.

Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community. Index over 200 million academic papers sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.

STORM is a research preview from the Stanford OVAL lab. It is a web-based, AI-powered tool designed to automate the knowledge curation process and generate Wikipedia-like reports on user-specified topics.