{"id":968,"date":"2025-02-20T08:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cuk.ac.ke\/library\/?p=968"},"modified":"2025-02-20T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:41:41","slug":"introduction-to-elicit-an-ai-tool-to-support-your-literature-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/introduction-to-elicit-an-ai-tool-to-support-your-literature-review\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRODUCTION TO ELICIT: AN AI TOOL TO SUPPORT YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elicit<\/u><\/a>\u00a0is an AI-powered research assistant that supports literature review. Elicit\u2019s integration with Semantic Scholar\u2019s<\/u><\/a>\u00a0database of 125 million academic papers allows you to quickly identify the top papers on your topic. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature. Elicit\u2019s<\/u><\/a>\u00a0key feature is the ability to extract text, summarize takeaways from the paper, and present the content in a research matrix.<\/p>\n

How do I use Elicit?<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Sign in\/Sign Up<\/li>\n
  2. Key in your question (be as specific as possible)<\/li>\n
  3. This will give you the top papers (4 if using the free version) on the topic and summarize the content in a customizable table<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Extracting data from PDFs<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Click on Extract data <\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and upload the papers you want to query<\/li>\n
    2. Select the part of the papers you want data extracted from the column labeled Manage Columns <\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>(Eg Summary or Methodology)<\/li>\n
    3. You can add more than one section. Elicit will present the extracted text by adding more columns of text<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Elicit\u00a0is an AI-powered research assistant that supports literature review. Elicit\u2019s integration with Semantic Scholar\u2019s\u00a0database of 125 million academic papers allows you to quickly identify the top papers on your topic. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature. Elicit\u2019s\u00a0key feature is the ability to extract text, summarize takeaways from the paper, and present the content in a research matrix. How do I use Elicit? Sign in\/Sign Up Key in your question (be as specific as possible) This will give you the top papers (4 if using the free version) on the topic and summarize the content in a customizable table Extracting data from PDFs Click on Extract data \u00a0and upload the papers you want to query Select the part of the papers you want data extracted from the column labeled Manage Columns (Eg Summary or Methodology) You can add more than one section. Elicit will present the extracted text by adding more columns of text<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cuk.ac.ke\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}