How to Use EBSCO Databases

EBSCO databases have made Artificial Intelligence (AI) features available in most of their databases. 

Generative AI Insights

AI Insights offer concise summaries, presenting 2-5 key points for each document. This consistent format, applied across multiple databases and deep backfiles of licensed content, introduces a new level of uniformity, facilitating rapid review. The aim of AI Insights is to reduce the time users spend searching for relevant full-text articles supporting their research. 

How AI Insights are generated in EBSCO

AI Insights summaries are generated by prompting a Large Language Model to summarize insights from the specific article the user selected AI Insights for. The AI Insight prompt uses a method called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to reduce hallucinations. EBSCO also reviews a representative sample of AI Insights with Subject Matter Expert (SME) Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) for biases, tone, accuracy, and timeliness of Insights as a quality and responsible AI metric.

The Generate AI Insights button is available from the results list of your search below each article. You can click/tap the button to generate the insight. In some cases you will not see the Generative AI Insights listed. These are cases where the content is too short, or a publisher might not have granted permission.