Researchers across numerous disciplines are increasingly looking at content not just as articles, books, images, etc., but as data and applying machine learning and other AI-enabled techniques to it. If you are interested in this type of research using content in library databases, contact Pru Morris, our Head of Collections Services (including e-resources) to make the necessary arrangements.
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AI Tools for Academic Literature Research by Kimberly S. Grotewold is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
Note: Basic AI features are available for free in some of the subscription-based databases paid for by Texas A&M University-San Antonio Library (e.g. related papers identification, results analyses and visualizations). Other, more advanced AI capabilities require add-on fees. This page highlights the features that are available without extra cost.
Coverage of humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, education, philosophy, classical studies, and music. Also includes a digitized group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals.
ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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Access multidisciplinary research delivered with info on emerging trends, subject specific content, and analysis tools. Includes Emerging Sources Citation Index: 2005-present, the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1980-present.
A valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary database with full-text peer-reviewed journal articles, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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The AI features have been made available across News searches and results only.
Use this database to search through more than 15,000 sources for U.S. and world news. Look up legal cases including U.S. Supreme Court decisions as old as 1790, find company information, state profiles, legal reviews, state legal research and more.
The GALE OneFile and most Gale In-Context databases have an embedded classic or "weak AI" algorithm that counts word frequencies. In the Gale products, the algorithm is applied to the first 100 search results.
Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources and covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. Also included are thousands of podcasts and videos.
Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.