Resources for help

Resources regarding research journalling

Suggested Databases for Education

    • ERIC
    • PsycINFO
    • SportDiscus

AI-enabled Resources

A rich learning experience involves acquiring new knowledge and making sense of it and is
fundamentally a social process with human interaction at the core.

U15 Canada, Navigating AI in Teaching and Learning,
September 2024

These examples currently offer a free level of access without account creation, and may be of interest to explore. Terms of service and privacy policies may be subject to change, so please review these to ensure that they are acceptable to you.

  • Connected Papers – Look up a paper of interest and set it as the starting point for a graph of related papers.
  • LitMaps – based on one citation locate other articles of interest and generate a visual literature map to support development of your literature review e.g. this one
  • Perplexity.ai – allows you to ask and refine your question, and review the range of sources that support the AI-generated response.
    In this response for “research in support of and critiquing scavenger hunts to promote learning and engagement” how would you characterize the various cited sources — perhaps consulting the library guide to Scholarly and Peer Reviewed Information? Which sources seem to have been more or less influential in forming the AI response? In what ways might you consider using the sources that the AI tool has surfaced?
  • SciSpace – example of chat with pdf that does not currently require account creation. Please consider carefully the rights of authors before uploading any content to this or other sites.