FAQs

According to Ex Libris, the new Primo AI Research Assistant "helps users find an easy starting point for their research by leveraging the power of generative AI. In its initial release, Research Assistant includes the following functionality:

• Natural language search
• Answers with references based on the abstract of top 5 results from Central Discovery Index (CDI)
• Links to the full text
• Links to the complete results list in Primo
• Search suggestions to expand topics and explore further
• Local language support"

It's now live and ready to be activated in your Primo view. Because it is view-specific, you can set up a test view and choose to enable it as a header link or as a widget.

Set up Test View:

• Go to Discovery>Display Configuration>Configure Views
• Click the three dots next to your default view and choose "duplicate":
  
• In the Code box type the name of the test view with no spaces
• To go to that view for testing, click the three dots next to the view and choose "Go to view"

Activate Research Assistant:

• Go to Discovery>Display Configuration>Configure Views
• Click the three dots next to the view where you'd like to activate the Research Assistant and choose Edit
• On the landing page (General tab), scroll down until you see the options "Enable Research Assistant Using Icon" and "Enable Research Assistant Using Widget" and choose which option you'd like to use:
  

Ex Libris Documentation:

• Getting Started with Primo Research Assistant
• Primo Research Assistant training session