MUST WEEK 2025
The first week of September at the Scientific Information Centre of ECON MUNI was all about meeting new people, sharing experiences, and exchanging best practices.
Searching Electronic Information Resources with the Help of AI
In recent months, providers of electronic information resources have been racing to integrate artificial intelligence tools into their platforms—both for document discovery and content analysis. Let us summarize what is currently available at our university.
Web of Science Research Assistant
A reminder: until April 16, the Research Assistant is available as part of a trial access at https://www.webofscience.com/. This tool offers natural language search in multiple languages, clear summaries of results, trend visualizations, and the ability to save chat history for ongoing research.
JSTOR’s Interactive Research Tool
The search tool on https://www.jstor.org/ highlights key points in texts, suggests additional relevant content, and answers questions related to thematic searches. It operates on selected articles, book chapters, and research reports, and is automatically available to all users within our subscription.
ProQuest Research Assistant
ProQuest has also launched its own AI-powered assistant, now available in both major services subscribed to by our university—ProQuest Central and ProQuest Ebook Central. The assistant facilitates faster evaluation of content relevance, deeper understanding of key concepts, and supports document analysis, helping researchers quickly assess the usefulness of each source for their work.
