MIT Library: Gen AI Literature Review Tools at MIT: Elicit

Elicit

Elicit's AI can assist by providing connecting results for connected terms to the terms you use in their search, even where you haven't used the appropriate keyword. It is marketed as being a "research assistant", and the user needs to be signed up to use it.

Main search field.

Search results, with display management options.

Owner/creator	Ought
Link	https://elicit.com/
Cost	Fremium model - sign up is free, but some functions can only be used with a subscription. Free basic plan with 5,000 one-time credits and limited features.
Databases	Semantic Scholar's collection
Database size	200 million
Discipline focus	Multi-disciplinary
Full text	Full text and abstracts
Zotero connectivity	Yes
Search parameters	Can search by specific journal title, DOI, OA status, citation count, and author
Special features	You can ask it questions, and it will answer them, saying which articles said what You need to sign up and create account to use, but sign is free Literature matrix feature, which allows you to add columns to extract needed information You can upload papers, and do analysis on them Connects to Zotero to upload papers You can also limit by publication range Search articles by natural language query Synthesize findings into a summary with real citations Customise Sources Function to add tags to papers & filter papers

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