Asta is an online tool dedicated to helping researchers quickly find and summarise literature that matches their research idea. The scholarly research assistant works with a corpus of 108 million scholarly abstracts and 12 million full text papers. Researchers just need to type their research idea in natural language and receive publications with clickable citations and a clear explanation of why they match the full research question.

Asta is built on Semantic Scholar's database, another platform from the non-profit AI research institute Ai2.