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St. Kate's has obtained a University-wide Consensus Unlimited Pro subscription!
What is Consensus AI?
Consensus is an AI search engine for academic research. Think of Consensus as an AI enhanced alternative to Google Scholar. It searches over 200 million academic papers and uses language models to help find, understand, and synthesize peer-reviewed literature.
What Consensus is not:
- Consensus is not a general purpose chatbot, like ChatGPT.
- Consensus does not train its AI models on our data. The information you provide or search for is not used to improve their AI models or shared with third parties. Search data remains private and is anonymized.
- Consensus is not a substitute for searching library databases.
- Relying on just one search tool for locating research will risk missing important information on the topic of interest.
What does Consensus search?
- Semantic Scholar (a free AI search engine for academic papers)
- OpenAlex (a freely accessible database that “aims to index and connect the entirety of the global research system” with data from PubMed, Directory of Open Access Journals, ORCID, Crossref, etc.)
- Consensus’ crawl of the scholarly web to fill in important coverage gaps
How do we access it:
For full access to our University-wide Consensus Unlimited Pro subscription, you will need to go to https://consensus.app/ and sign up using your @stkate.edu email address.
How do we use it:
- You can search Consensus with keywords, open-ended questions, specific paper titles, or author names.
- You can apply filters to the search, like publication year, study methodology, field of study, journal rank (SciMago), etc.
- Consensus AI searches the titles and abstracts and ranks the relevance of the top 20 papers (if more than 20 found).
- Consensus integrates with our library journal subscriptions through LibKey to facilitate full text article access
- Consensus integrates with Zotero and Mendeley citation managers.
For more information check out the AI for Students guide