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AI Use and Copyright

Uploading full-text articles and book chapters into generative AI tools may have copyright or licensing implications. To minimize risk, use tools that don't train on or retain what you input, like Microsoft Copilot, or use materials in the public domain.

Consider using one of the embedded AI tools listed below.

Note that AI generated summaries may not always be accurate.AI will shorten buy not analyze and may miss an important point. Use any summary as a first step which may indicate an article is of interest and then use the original article to inform your work.

JSTOR
An interdisciplinary archive of over 1,000 scholarly full-text journals. The earliest content dates back to 1665. It is prohibited to use JSTOR content in open, generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. JSTOR offers its own AI tool. Once you find an article, use the embedded AI tool to get a summary of key points, to find related articles, or to ask questions about the content.

JSTOR provides an Interactive Research AI tool. Users must be affiliated with QU and logged in with a personal account. JSTOR's Interactive Research Tool provides a summary of key points of an article, related articles, or users can ask questions about the article. JSTOR Overview.
Statista
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 80000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database Contains a Research AI tool. Query about available data, ask to have data formatted as a table, or create a summary.
Academic Search Ultimate
Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracting coverage for more than 13,800 journals with more than 9,000 full-text. Look for entries with the "Generate AI Insights (Beta) button.
Library OneSearch
Library OneSearch is an interdisciplinary discovery resource. It searches most of the library databases and the book collection from a single platform. It identifies scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, trade publications, books, and e-books. Look for entries with the "Generate AI Insights (Beta) button.