Keeping up with AI in teaching, learning, and publishing

The amount of information coming out about AI uses, is occurring as fast as the changes that are happening. Here are some that have come to our attention that we felt could be of interest to you. We have no doubt that there is so much more. If you have suggestions, please share and we will be happy to add them here for others to see.

From CATLR

AI focus on students and education

Recent publications on GenAI.

AI tools can provide great assistance and potentially speed up the process.  However, like all the other options available for literature searching there must be an understanding about the tool, what it has access to and how it might yield incorrect or irrelevant results. The articles below discuss some of the current challenges. 

From Education Week 

LIbrary resource AI options

Library databases and many other resources are adding AI features. The function varies. Some provide research assistance, others create a summary of the content displayed, similar to Google or other search engines. 

Below are two resources that have specific research functions that are licensed through the library.

The library licenses Scite.ai in the spring of 2024. It's resources are heavily STEM related. One key feature is the analysis of articles/publications that have cited a particular work. The results will show supporting or refuting the original article. Scite Assistant interfaces with a ChatGPT feature to help answer questions related to the included content.

Try it out and read more from scite.ai by following the links below.