5 Powerful Academic Tools You've Never Heard Of...

here are the five academic tools you've

not heard about the first one is smoing

smoing has got a load of different

functionalities if you go to SM you log

in you can see you've got rewrite

plagiarism AI writing you've got all

these options down here you've got AI

chat you've got homework you've got

summarizer and more look they've even

run out of space here so they've got

more tools the one thing that I'm

interested though for Academia is the AI

writing and the research paper so if you

click on here you can see you've got a

load of options language options then

you put in a title or keywords then

you've got standard or super charged

article then you can select the number

of paragraphs you want then you can say

whether or not you want Google Scholar

search you want an introduction and

discussion and then you can put an

abstract as well I did this if I go to

my documents and I did it for

transparent electrod materials for

flexible devices and so here we go

transparent Electro materials for

flexible Electronics or that's what I

actually put so it put out a load of

quite interesting results then it's got

another section why are transparent

electronic materials important for

flexible Electronics there it give you

one of the reasons you know why it's

important then it looks at other

materials metal nanowires Silver

nanowires then they've also got thinner

silver nanowires then they've got

graphine they've got all of the

different things that actually I

researched when I was doing this as a

post stock and here's the one thing I

really like about this if you go down to

the bottom I've always been a little bit

concerned about the sorts of references

this sort of stuff pulls up especially

considering it's like a jack of all

trades and not specifically for research

but it's done a pretty good job now I'm

not saying these resources are perfect

you still have to go use your magic

academic brain to find out whether or

not they're suitable for inclusion in

this as a first draft but I think for

its price and for the quality of

information it actually spits out as

well as all of the other stuff that you

get access to down here um I think this

could be a really nice thing to use um

if you do want to start with your

research paper to get that first draft

using AI you know it's not perfect

nothing is but this is really powerful

and something you should know about

smoing interesting finding academic

papers is so important if if you're

going to find the most important

research in your field but it's a pain

in the ass to go through loads and loads

of different search options for finding

research papers I've done a video about

sort of like the process I would use go

check this one out here but this is a

tool that I think is really really

useful and Powerful it's called

insightful insightful allows you to

accelerate your research they always say

that they always say that but this one

helps you build a network of academic

papers that they'll analyze for you to

discover the most recent literature and

this is something that I've not seen

before where you can select two papers

and it will show you how the literature

connects them this is really important

for telling the story of your research

or any literature ofie that's

interesting to me I've not seen that

anywhere else so I'm going to actually

see if I can connect research from a

very very important

scientist me so here's one of my papers

a multi-layer approach to blah blah blah

I'm going to take that the one thing I

like about this where are we we're here

one thing I like about this you put it

in and then it actually recommends is it

this one yes it is I'll take that one

and then I've got my other paper that

was published much later in my post and

we'll see if we can connect them um one

of my first papers to one of my last

papers that's interesting to me and it's

a great way of telling the story of the

evolution of research so there we are

it's popped up again I like that that

one let's search so literature connector

it's always quite quick I found this

sort of like a really Speedy uh system

considering that it's going through so

many different papers so it says it to

get from my first paper to one of my

later papers that uh it says minimum

three hops maximum hops papers search

paths found and papers in path so these

are 26 papers I clearly need to know

about if I was to continue in this

research field and these are sorted by

um size so if there's loads of

connection to to them they're much

bigger these you can see have just got

like one or two connections these have

got loads and loads coming out the other

side so this is really important it's

really sort of like a really nice way to

see how research has evolved between

papers and I'd be interested to put some

really sort of like obscure connections

and see how many hops it takes but

ultimately I need to know everything

about these papers everything about

these papers it just makes it so much

easier to find the relevant literature

and these I think are hper relevant it's

like Mega relevant stuff for your

research get two papers plug them in

look at everything in the middle you've

just got yourself a literature review

perfect you can also put it into zero

with their plug-in brilliant check it

out

insightful.

xyz.com was clearly taken if you're in

the clinical and biomed research area I

would check out evidence hunt evidence

Hunt is a really cool way here I'm going

to go to new chat um is a really great

way of finding literature and summaries

of semantically searched research

questions boom so here we are let's just

use one of these so hi how can I help

you you're so polite I want to find out

about here we are how to assess stroke

risk in atrial fibrillation I'm going to

click that and you'll see it goes away

and uh finds the most important evidence

it also summarizes it for us and puts it

in nice bite-sized

chunks this is taking

forever I'm going spin in my chair until

it's

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finished let's go back new chat can

mindfulness prevent burnout let's try

that one oh thank Christ for that it's

finished okay so based on the top search

results the answer to your question is

yes practicing mindfulness techniques

and it says systematic review there a

study on Chinese college students uh if

I click on these I wonder what there we

are it pops up and this is from 2023

super relevant I love it when they

actually look for recent developments

because that's so important um and also

look it tells you whether or not it's a

population question an intervention

control outcome and conclusion great way

to scan the uh abstracts that are given

so if I want to find out the outcome

seep quality and perceive stress of T

blah blah brilliant so really like this

is a great way to actually sort of scan

the literature and find the most

important stuff if you are in the

clinical and biomedical research field

um I wish something like this existed

outside of this field fingers cross it

comes soon do you know what it's really

annoying in research other than your

supervisor's little quirks that are so

weird that you're kind of questioning

whether or not they're a real person and

not just an alien that's been flown in

to do research to make the world a

better place it is trying to find all of

the literature across different

databases check out smart search.org

look at this it goes through all of

these PubMed Google Scholar lens scopus

and many more nice so here we go search

the best databases in Academia that's

exactly what I want to do so scholarly

records yes keywords or subjects I think

I'm going to go keywords let's have a

look at all of the keywords that I male

grooming when did I search for that nice

all right I'm going to look for um uh

Nano

materials okay great select keyword Nano

Nano oh n chemistry select keywords why

is it not in there okay uh let's go down

and uh look at chemistry I'm going to go

and look at uh beans nice that's what I

want catalyzed carbin does it get much

sexier select keywords and now I can go

in and look at all the databases that

actually contain information related to

my field so here we are I go in and you

can see that Cass scifinder Google

Scholar one world so all of these are

where I could potentially get

information about my field but

unfortunately you know I wouldn't know

half of these to be honest core never

heard of that one semantics scholar I

know that one I'm clever um neighor

academic what the hell is that so these

are databases that I could start to

include in my literature search and all

I need to do then is uh go in and uh

find all of the things in this database

much easier than having to go and rely

only on stuff like Google Scholar

semantic search elicit even like all of

those things are incredibly powerful but

this is going to make your literature

search even better you can also sort of

look at books conference papers Journal

Publications one thing I like if we go

back in this

searches searches the

databases what searches the databases

must support default so show largest

database first great systematic keyword

searching forward citation searching I

like the idea of that and also gray

literature searching I want to find

unpublished documents Gray sneaky the

underbelly of academic publishing I want

to see about that so super powerful if

you're um wanting the best databases in

Academia easy done all of the thought

process for finding these important

databases has been made much easier go

check it out automatic writers some

people love them some people hate them

I'm somewhere in the middle I think they

can be a very useful tool if they're

used correctly this one is Yoo AI Yoo yo

moo AI here we go at the moment look at

that they got a discount code brilliant

but this is an academic AI for writing

your paper faster it able you to

simplify the process of thinking about

the structure of what to include um I've

been triing it I'm a little bit on the

fence about how powerful this really is

but I think you should know about it

still so once you've signed up and I've

paid some of my hard-earned money to

access a trial of this um and I wanted

to know about the emerging nanomaterials

in enhancing the efficiency of organic

photovoltaic devices that's what I

wanted so you can see that I chose to

have the different sections created for

me I kind of like that I always work

with the structure first before delving

into the details and uh it has got this

Auto writer so you need to go up to

settings and you need to turn on auto

complete But ultimately all you need to

do then is start writing and these

things will pop up in Gray so you can

see schematic representation of organic

photo devices shown yeah I like that

I'll have that and then um it says enter

some text or press shift tab for

continuation um so fundamentals of

nanomaterials so I'll just put in Nano

come on stage Nano materials for um

photo jeez Jesus come on

fic this is terrible all right never

ever listen to me for spelling nanom

materials include let's see what we've

got include we'll double click um let's

say okay there we are organic

semiconductors inorganic metal materials

and carbon nanot tubes okay that's

interesting then if I want to to

actually sort of like add a citation in

for that I can select it then you've got

this thing that pops up that says use AI

then I can par paraphrase shorten expand

academe academized make it more boring

and super precise so that your reviewers

love it um then you summarize bullets to

text oh I like that one so if you have

bullets from a brainstorm you could turn

it into text I do that a lot site and

then we've got in-depth okay so at the

moment I want to see what citations it

can come up with for that sentence and

here we are it's come up with some

options I would need to go through his

carbon choose the route towards

applications yeah I'm going to include

that I can go check it out brilliant

there's a PDF I can go read it before it

goes in and then I can just quickly say

add citation it's been in and then right

down the bottom it's actually included

them in this uh referencing section and

we can change the referencing style here

so that uh it's easy to just add

references and citations love it so this

is an equivalent to something like Jenny

AI I don't think this is as powerful at

the moment but I do like it um I do

think you should sort of like compare

this one and Jenny AI but ultimately

this could be really good so there we

have it there are the five academic AI

tools that you've not heard about let me

know in the comments below what you

would add and also if you like this

video go check out this one where I talk

about the six academic AI tools you'll

actually use for research because

they're super useful and Powerful go

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