Summon launches the AI tool Research Assistant

The Summon interface now features the Summon Research Assistant tool, which utilizes artificial intelligence for efficient searching. It is designed to help users quickly and easily find relevant information from various sources, allowing them to input queries in natural language and summarize key information from descriptions and abstracts.

And if you’re not familiar with Summon: it is a discovery-type search tool specifically designed for searching academic and scientific information. It works similarly to regular search engines but focuses on scholarly materials such as scientific articles, books, studies, and other research sources. The main advantage of Summon is that it indexes and searches materials from e-resources that the VŠE library subscribes to (in simpler terms: almost all full-text resources available at https://library.vse.cz/resources/).