ProQuest's Research Assistant inside Ebook Central helps researchers and students work through scholarly ebooks: chapter-level summaries, concept explanations and connections across the collection.
Benefits & outcomes
Simplifies exploration and concept identification in long-form content.
Surfaces related titles in the library's collection, lifting 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." — Meredith Griggs-Keane, VP Product Management, Clarivate
"For me, the key takeaways are the most helpful, while students will likely find the concept identification feature even more valuable." — Drew Baker, Digital Theological Library
Publisher / company: ProQuest (part of Clarivate)
Date of mention: 14/04/2025
Source: https://about.proquest.com/en/blog/2025/new-ebook-central-ai-tool-helps-users-engage-deeper-with-scholarly-ebooks/