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Gen AI Literature Review Tools at MIT

Using AI tools for Literature Reviews

Lens.org

The Lens is a Gen AI search tool, originally set up in 2000 as a patent searcher. It is run by Cambia, and Australian based non profit organisation.
The Lens allows data exporting in JSON format with a superior granularity compared to RIS and CSV formats.
 

Front end of Lens.org with search field.

Search results screen, showing a range of filters on the left, and a snapshot display of the Academic institutions origins of the results.

 

Owner/creator

 Cambia
 Link  https://www.lens.org/
Cost  Free

Databases

 Microsoft Academic, Pubmed, Crossref, Unpaywall, Orcid, CORE

Database size

 194 million

Discipline focus

 Multi discipline focus

Full text

 Full text and abstracts

Zotero connectivity

 Yes

Search parameters

 Affiliation, title field, field of study

Special features

  • Sourced from ) and open data sources -quite huge as it pulls in sourced material from different locations 200 million in total
  • Includes patents
  • Advanced search (structured search) – complex field searching
  • You can search by allows for greater precision.

 

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Lens.org: a free and open platform for science and technology mapping

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