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New AI Features in O'Reilly

Most of our library databases are working on AI features to make research easier for students. O'Reilly has several AI features that can make your research easier, all available under O'Reilly Answers. You can see this and more on using O'Reilly in How to Use O'Reilly for Higher Education or see more on using AI in other library databases in How to Use Library Database AI. 

Get Started with O'Reilly Answers

It's super easy to get stated with AI in O'Reilly. 

1. Select Answers to get started. 

Ask O'Reilly Answers

Once the O'Reilly Answers page loads, you'll have multiple options. 

1. Ask O'Reilly Answers your question. 
2. If you just want to try out O'Reilly Answers, there are a couple of example searches that you can select.
3. Lists the kinds of results you'll receive after your search.
4. You can access previous searches sunder My Answers History. 

Review Your Results & Get Sources

Once you've asked your question, O'Reilly Answers will return your results with multiple options.

1. The question that you asked will show at the the top of your result page. 
2. Read a generative overview of your topic.
3. Numbers listed next to statement in the summary point you to which source(s) support the statement.
4. Let O'Reilly know if the results were good.
5. Choose from a list of additional questions to ask about your topic. 
6. A list of the sources from which the overview was generated. Selecting a source expands to show summary of the information used from source. 
7. Access your O'Reilly Answers history.