AI services

• In addition to web browsers, this tool can be used with Word and Google Docs add-ons.

• Keenious does not store or copy the text analysed. User data will remain within Europe.

   

Helka’s generative AI search enables you to search for international scholarly online sources from Helka. Please note that the AI search does not cover any printed material held by Helka.

• The tool is available in Helka.
• Further information on the

• A Scopus add-on
• Scopus AI analyses research summaries published from 2003 onwards. 

• A Web of Science add-on

• Login to Web of Science 

• Covidence is a browser-based tool for carrying out systematic literature reviews.
• Login and support website: .
• You can also contact the library () for the support.

ATLAS.ti is a qualitative data analysis application whose cloud and AI features also allow you to process confidential data held by the University of Helsinki. When using these features, the data entered in the service will be transferred outside the EU (to the United States). 

• You can also use the application without these cloud and AI features in the University of Helsinki’s Umpio storage facility on the Helpdesk website.
• Read more about the application’s uses (Flamma, requires login with University credentials).

Loging in

1. Sign in with SSO:
2. In the window that opens, enter your credentials in the format and click ‘Continue’. In the University's single sign-on window, click ‘Accept’.
3. In the drop-down menus in the window that opens, select your details (role at the University, country and university) and click ‘Save’.

What is Avidnote?

• Avidnote is an AI assistant especially for writing research documents. It is a browser-based AI application designed to facilitate research documentation. It helps preserve research notes, write text and analyse results. The application also includes transcription features.
• NB! When using Avidnote, the University’s general cloud service principles must be observed. No licenced, sensitive or confidential data must be entered into the application.

• recommended by IT Helpdesk

The aTrain application is available for the most sensitive data. If you wish to use it, please contact Helpdesk ().

• CurreChat is a tool created for the University community for processing open, public and internal data, but not confidential or secret data.
• The Kontra translation engine developed at the University of Helsinki is available in the University network via a VPN connection. The languages available for translation are Finnish, Swedish and English.
• Copilot can be used to create and edit text and images. The service is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model and Dall-E 3 image generation model.
• is an external translation service.

• Advanced courses in information retrieval: AI and Information Retrieval workshops and webinars The workshops are open and free of charge to students and researchers of the University of Helsinki, as well as the staff of HUS Group and HUS Helsinki University Hospital.
• The Research Data Management Advanced webinars explore AI from the perspective of data management. They are particularly well suited to researchers.

If you enter into AI tools any text not written by you, make sure you have the right to do so. As an AI tool user, you are responsible for ensuring that your input does not violate anyone’s copyright or the tools’ terms of use.

Helsinki University Library acquires from scholarly publishers electronic material (e.g., articles and e-books) for use by researchers and students. Such use is regulated and thus determined by licence agreements. As a rule, licenced material cannot be disclosed outside the University. In other words, data must not be entered into AI tools provided by external service providers. In addition, the modification of data is often prohibited. This means that, as a rule, electronic material acquired by the library cannot be entered into AI tools.

Permitted use of AI tools has been separately agreed with a handful of publishers. Below is a summary of what uses are permitted for material published by these publishers.

Elsevier ScienceDirect and Wiley

• Articles can be used for input in CurreChat. CurreChat operates only in a technical environment reserved for the University of Helsinki, and no articles are disclosed outside. CurreChat does not use any inputs to further train AI.
• Articles can be used to train personal AI tools if they are only available to University of Helsinki staff or students.
• The use of AI tools and related training must be associated with non-commercial research, teaching or study purposes.
• Read the agreement details: (1.4) and (6. C.1.s).

CC licences and AI tools

• The use of data published under an open CC licence is determined by the terms of the relevant licence.
• If the AI tool does not use inputs for training AI, CC-licensed data can be used as input. In other words, data published under CC licences can be used in AI environments offered by the University (e.g., CurreChat, Copilot).
• However, the use of the final outcome must comply with the terms of the CC licence. If the licence prohibits commercial use (e.g., CC BY-NC), the data cannot be used commercially even by way of AI tools. If the licence prohibits editing (e.g., CC BY-ND), article translations cannot be made for publication, even using AI.
• If you wish to use CC-licensed data to train AI, you must also consider the licence terms. For example, the CC BY licence, which grants fairly broad use and edit rights, requires, among other things, that the name of the original author is mentioned in connection with the final outcome.

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