Literature Review Collection — Academic Research & AI App Guides

Academic Research and Literature Review App Guides

Conducting a literature review can involve finding relevant research papers, examining study findings, comparing evidence, organizing sources, and identifying questions that need further investigation.

AI-powered research apps offer tools to assist with these activities, but each app has its own features, search capabilities, and methods of working with academic information.

The Literature Review Collection brings together five app function-guide collections covering Elicit, Consensus, SciSpace, Perplexity, and Gemini Notebook.

These apps support different aspects of academic research, including discovering research papers, analyzing published studies, comparing findings, reviewing cited sources, and working with research materials you provide.

With 124 individual function guides, the collection provides plain-language instructions to help students, researchers, and professionals understand and use these apps.

Each guide explains what a specific feature does, where to find it, and how to use it, with practical examples you can reference when needed.

Whether you're searching for academic literature in Elicit or Consensus, exploring research papers in SciSpace, investigating questions with Perplexity, or working with source materials in Gemini Notebook, these guides provide instructional resources for the individual apps.

What's included:

• 124 individual function guides across five apps.
• Five compiled app reference books, each available in PDF and EPUB formats.
• Individual guides organized by app for easy reference.

Designed for students, researchers, and professionals who work with published research, this collection focuses on learning the apps rather than providing completed literature reviews or research services.

AI-generated findings, summaries, and citations should be checked against original research sources before being used in academic or professional work.

The purchase includes instructional guides, not app subscriptions, paid research features, or access to the apps themselves.

Included App Collections

Elicit — 27 Function Guides

Learn about Elicit's AI research tools for finding relevant papers, exploring research questions, extracting information from studies, and working with available literature review features.

Consensus — 24 Function Guides

Explore Consensus' AI-powered academic search tools for finding research papers, reviewing scientific evidence, comparing findings, and investigating research questions.

SciSpace — 14 Function Guides

Learn about SciSpace's research tools for discovering academic papers, working with research PDFs, summarizing studies, comparing information, and exploring source-based explanations.

Perplexity — 28 Function Guides

Understand Perplexity's AI-powered search and research tools for investigating topics, finding information, reviewing cited sources, and exploring questions through follow-up searches.

Gemini Notebook — 31 Function Guides

Explore Google's Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, for organizing research sources, working with uploaded documents, asking questions about source materials, and reviewing source-based summaries and citations.

Total: 124 individual function guides across five app collections.

Each app collection also includes its own compiled reference book in PDF and EPUB formats.

Who it's for: Students, researchers, and professionals whose work runs on published

research.

Not for: Everyday research questions that don't require academic literature. The Research Collection may be a better fit.

What you get: Five academic research and literature review app function-guide collections containing 124 individual guides, plus one compiled reference book for each app in PDF and EPUB formats.

How it's delivered: Delivered as a Google Drive folder link after purchase. One-time

purchase.

Updates: Updates are included while the collection is maintained — if a guide changes,

the folder copy is updated.

Disclaimers: These are reference guides that teach the apps, they are not prompt packs,

and they don't include subscriptions to the apps themselves.