Comparing Elicit AI Research Assistant to PubMed and CINAHL Complete

The data represents the comparison of Elicit: The AI Research Assistant to PubMed and CINAHL Complete. A descriptive study design was used for graduate nursing students at a large southern Alabama university college of nursing to compare the effectiveness of a GenAI literature search tool, Elicit: The AI Research Assistant, to PubMed and CINAHL. A two-phase framework was utilized to organize complex information and justify a preference. A rubric was designed to promote and assess critical thinking through inquiry-based learning in educating graduate nursing students on information literacy and structuring a literature search. Discovering a relationship between the search tools, students identified the strengths (pros) and weaknesses (cons) of each tool and determined which tool was more effective in terms of accuracy, relevance and efficiency.