Issues in Contemporary Art

Step 1: Use Traditional Research Tools

1. Assemble search terms and keywords identified so far
2. Use these to search in research tools
3. Keep track of your searches and results

Try these links below - these tools are supported by the library and quickly get you to scholarly sources

Steps 2 & 3: Identify and Use AI-powered research Tools

Use a different approach for these tools than you did for the traditional library research tools

• Start by giving the tool your research question
• Evaluate the results and see if you need to refine your question
• All of these show the sources used and none "hallucinate" sources

AI-powered Research Tools to start looking for articles:

• Scite_ AI research assistant (library subscription)
  • Hint: look at Search Strategy
• SciSpace (free version)
  • Hint: look at Find Concepts
• Perplexity AI Search Engine (free version)
  • Hint: look at Focus Button

When you have some articles and you want to find more

• Research Rabbit AI research assistant (free)

CFL AI Resources Research Guide (includes links to these and additional AI researcher tools)

NotebookLM is a free tool good for understanding what texts are about:

• Synthesize many different documents
• Answer a question based on the sources you provide

Note: Use this tool after you are done searching

Voyant is a free text analysis tool good for exploring texts such as your article PDFs:

• Uncover patterns in texts
• Compare the language used in different texts

Note: Use this tool after you are done searching