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Money and Politics - PS 4896-1

Library sources and suggestions for Spring 2024 Capstone course projects

AI tools and Literature Mapping

Generative AI tools like the ones below are great for overviews, outlines and keyword search ideas. These tools are generally not ready yet for reliable searching for a number of reasons. Rely primarily on databases.

Perplexity AI is a tool for scholarly sources.

Gemini AI    Microsoft Copilot

A key issue to consider is where a search tool is searching and quality vs.quantity of those sources.

Image of chart comparing the number of sources search tools cover

 

Literature mapping is another way to gather citations by using graphical organizers to see and find links between research papers..

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