Find, Verify, Summarize, Assess, Visualize: AI Tools for Scholarly Communication

Presented by Ansuman Chattopadhyay, this presentation introduces a suite of five browser-based, AI-native tools developed by the Health Sciences Library System to support researchers across the scholarly communication lifecycle—from finding and verifying literature to summarizing, critically appraising, and visualizing findings for dissemination. Built on the University of Pittsburgh's Institutional Claude for Education agreement and designed with safeguards such as live citation verification against PubMed and Crossref, as well as peer-review-style quality assessment, the tools aim to make AI assistance both trustworthy and practical for researchers at every level. Through brief demonstrations of all five—the Research Query Answering Engine, Citation Integrity Audit AI, PaperSummarizer, Research Paper Quality Assessor, and PaperSketch Planner—plus a quick look at Proofig AI, an image integrity analysis tool recently licensed by the University, attendees will see how these tols can streamline their day-to-day work while keeping human judgment and methodological rigor at the center of scholarly communication.