What You Can Do with SCiNiTO's AI Chat and Search Features

SCiNiTO (ekb.scinito.ai) is an academic resource hub that combines AI chat, scholarly search, PDF analysis, and research management in one interface. You can use it to ask research questions, search scholarly data with filters, analyze PDFs, and organize work into research spaces — provided you sign in with EKB to unlock AI Chat and the other features. One important condition: responses are AI-generated, so accuracy is not guaranteed and you should verify anything before relying on it.

Ask research questions in AI Chat

The AI Chat is the most direct way to get an answer or an overview of a topic. You type a question and receive a generated response.

• Quick vs. Deep modes: The interface offers a "Quick" and a "Deep" option, letting you choose between a faster answer and a more thorough one depending on how much depth you need.
• Chat filters: You can apply filters to steer the chat toward the kind of material you want.
• Add Source: You can attach a source to ground the conversation in a specific document or reference rather than relying only on the model's general knowledge.

If you are not sure where to start, the hub surfaces trending questions as examples of what the tool handles, such as:

• What are the latest developments in machine learning?
• How does climate change affect biodiversity?
• What are the applications of CRISPR technology?
• How do vaccines work in the human body?

These are useful as templates: swap in your own topic and the same question structure works.

Search scholarly data

Beyond chat, the hub is built for searching scholarly data. You can run a search and then narrow results using filters and added sources, which is the practical way to move from a broad topic to a set of relevant references. The search and chat features sit in the same workspace, so you can move between finding material and asking questions about it without switching tools.

Analyze PDFs

PDF Analysis lets you work with a document directly rather than reading it end to end. This is the feature to use when you have a paper, report, or set of PDFs and want to extract or interrogate their content. It pairs naturally with AI Chat: analyze the PDF, then ask follow-up questions about what it contains.

Manage research in Research Spaces

Research Spaces are where you organize your work. Instead of losing track of searches, chats, and documents across sessions, you group them into a space tied to a project or topic. This is the feature that turns one-off queries into an ongoing body of work.

What you need before you start

A realistic workflow

1. Sign in with EKB to unlock the full feature set.
2. Search your topic and apply filters or add sources to narrow the results.
3. Open AI Chat and ask your question, choosing Quick or Deep based on how much depth you need.
4. Add a source when you want the answer tied to a specific reference.
5. Analyze the PDFs you collected to pull out the details you need.
6. Save everything into a Research Space so the project stays organized.
7. Verify the AI output against the underlying sources before you cite or act on it.

Common pitfalls

• Treating AI answers as final. The hub itself flags that responses are AI-generated and accuracy is not guaranteed. Use them as a starting point, not a citation.
• Skipping the sign-in. AI Chat and additional features require signing in with EKB; without it you are limited to what the public page shows.
• Ignoring filters and sources. The value of the search side is in narrowing results — running a bare query and stopping there wastes the tool's main advantage.
• Not using Research Spaces. If you do not group your work, you lose the continuity that makes the hub more useful than a plain search engine.

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