As with all sources, students should be transparent about their use of AI tools for research and writing assignments. Presenting work and ideas that are not your own is considered a violation of Gavilan College's academic dishonesty policy.
When in doubt, please ask your instructor about whether you are permitted to use AI tools such as chatGPT for assignments.
Best AI Tools To Help Students
How can you harness the power of artificial intelligence to manage your academic life? The library staff suggests these free tools to help you be a more productive, organized, and successful student.
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ChatGPT assists with writing, answering questions, summarizing text, creating code, and more. Demo Here. |
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Grammarly provides writing assistance for grammar, punctuation, voice, tone, style, plagiarism, citations as well as specific help with resumes, emails, and cover letters. Try the demo |
Available for Windows and Mac
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Socratic, powered by Google AI, helps students master difficult topics by providing visual explanations in (mostly) math and science, via text and speech recognition. |
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Andy helps students learn and practice English through conversations. |
Each tool below is free to use and focusses on using AI to improve research.
A free-to-use, open-source systematic review assistant that leverages state-of-the-art active learning techniques in order to help review large amounts of articles/content for specific key words and qualifiers. Free to download and use.
Pulling from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls, this AI-driven search and discovery toolset provides a streamlined search platform for over 200 million academic papers. Free to use.
This online platform generates brand new summaries and findings that are created using an AI reviewer and the contents of each respective paper. It currently provides both summary services in addition to an in-depth literature review toolset, all sourced through the over 200 million academic papers available through Semantic Scholar. Free to use.
Using a complex AI-backed methodology, this platform is a literature mapping tool. Using a “seed” article, the platform finds relevant articles and content to link. Visualized by a bubble map of connected topics, this toolset can be invaluable for finding additional connections across a variety of disciplines as well as staying up to date with up and coming publications. Free to use.