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Albert S. Cook Library

Instructional Technology

Access Notes

These tutorials were created using Scribe.

Using a mobile device? Switch to Desktop Mode for the tutorials below.

To start each text- and screenshot-based tutorial, select the "Get Started" button. You can then either progress using the "Next" button or select the square outline to enter full-screen mode. For more personalized control and interactions, open the Digital Reading and Annotation object, SciSpace for Lit Review object, and ResearchRabbit for Lit Review object in new tabs.

For an alternative format, please contact your librarian Brittni Ballard.

Digital Reading and Annotation

Zotero works well for reading PDFs, but: What about when you need to read other kinds of sources? A web content annotation tool like Diigo is a good choice. Best of all? You can use Zotero and Diigo together!

AI-Enhanced Literature Reviews

Generative artificial intelligence aka Gen AI tools such as SciSpace and Elicit can help you construct tables and automatically extract data from sources you've identified for inclusion in your literature review. These tools do not store, share, or train on any sources you upload.

Although these tools claim to be able to discover sources, they do not in fact have access to all the sources library databases do. As such, if you choose to use Gen AI tools for literature discovery, it should be in supplement to your library database searching.

SciSpace

ResearchRabbit

Whereas SciSpace works well for extracting data from PDFs to help you determine whether a source is worth reading closely and fits your research methodology, ResearchRabbit works well for discovery new literature and authors by visualizing researcher communities and scholarly trends.