(16 Sep 2024) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship blog:
“Ex Libris surprised us by suddenly releasing Primo Research Assistant to production on September 9, 2024 (when the earlier timeline was 4Q 2024 with some believing it might even be delayed). Despite the fact that there are so many RAG (retrieval augmented generation) academic search systems today that generate answers from search, this is still quite a significant event to be worth covering in my blog.
Why? Simply put, while Primo Research Assistant may not break any new ground in terms of features or functionality, in all likelihood this might be the first academic search system that use RAG to generate answers that many librarians and users will encounter given the fact that Primo together with it’s cousin Summon (which will have it’s own Research Assistant coming soon Q1 2025) are two of the big 4 default academic search engines used by Academic libraries (the other two are Ebsco Discovery Service and WorldCat Discovery Service) and this feature is bundled in!”
Read the full article from the blog here.
