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Welcome DLP students!   Roxanne and Christine are your library partners. Please contact us as needed!

 

This guide focuses on interdisciplinary resources. DLP students work across many disciplines, and subject specific guides and additional subject specialists are available. We can connect you with our colleagues and a wide range of library resources and services!

Key Resources

Using AI tools for research

The university and library provide several AI resources for your use. That said, it's important to understand the benefits and limitations of these AI programs before relying on them to provide materials for your research projects. One of the tricky features of AI is that you have to know something about the topic to be able to evaluate the AI's tool's performance!

It's also important to know both the DLP's position on AI as well as your individual faculty member's guidance for the use of AI tools in assignments and projects. Check the DLP Guidelines for AI Use on the DLP Resource Center.

Here are a few things to consider: The first six criteria were created/supplied by one of the library's major vendors, Clarivate.

  • Relevance: Does the AI response directly address the user's query?
  • Accuracy/Faithfulness: Does the source material support the answer? Are there signs of hallucination?
  • Clarity and structure: Is the response easy to read and logically organized?
  • Bias or offensive content: Does the output include offensive or inappropriate content? Are relevant perspectives excluded?
  • Comprehensiveness: Does the answer consider multiple perspectives or angles, especially in academic contexts?
  • Behavior when information is lacking: Does the answer acknowledge uncertainty or produce misleading content?

We would add:

  • Corpus - Do you know what materials the AI tool trained on/draws from? For example, Scite.ai and Scopus AI, two library resources, rely heavily on scholarly journals, and their creators have relationships/contracts with academic publishers. Claude, the university-supported AI program also provides a significant amount of scholarly content.
  • Check, check, and check again - Use other sources like library databases to determine whether your search results and those of the AI tool are comparable.

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Need more help?

Please contact Roxanne Palmatier or Christine Oka, library partners for the DLP program.