An AI-powered assistant integrated into the Ebook Central platform, designed to help researchers and students navigate scholarly ebooks more effectively. It surfaces key insights, uncovers connections, and guides users through their academic journey by providing chapter-level summaries and concept explanations.
Benefits & outcomes
Enhances engagement with ebooks by simplifying exploration, identifying key concepts, and providing contextual explanations. It supports information literacy by encouraging critical thinking and helps users discover related titles within their library’s collection, thereby boosting collection usage.
Notes & quotes
“We worked with our community of customers to create a tool that uses Academic AI to solve challenges for users and showcase more of the library’s ebook collection,” said Meredith Griggs-Keane, Vice President, Product Management at Clarivate.
“For me, the key takeaways are the most helpful, while students will likely find the concept identification feature even more valuable,” noted Drew Baker at the Digital Theological Library.
Publisher / company: ProQuest (part of Clarivate)
Date of case study: 14/04/2025
Source: https://about.proquest.com/en/blog/2025/new-ebook-central-ai-tool-helps-users-engage-deeper-with-scholarly-ebooks/