JSTOR's interactive research tool, in beta, adds custom summaries, recommended topics, related content and document Q&A to the platform — users can "talk to the document". Runs on GPT-3.5 plus smaller open-source models for semantic search.
Benefits & outcomes
Users report doing in a day what took four or five.
More time spent on JSTOR, deeper engagement with content.
Opens scholarly content to novice researchers and students.
Answers link back to the original text passages they came from.
Notes & quotes
"I can do in a day what it used to take me four or five days… AI isn't doing any of the intellectual work for me… It's not thinking things for me; it's showing me where to look." – Faculty member
"Honestly, time is everything… Wasted time and difficulty levels will go down significantly because of this." – Student user
Publisher / company: JSTOR / ITHAKA
Date of mention: 01/05/2025
Source: https://about.jstor.org/blog/ai-and-other-advanced-technologies-on-jstor-what-were-learning/