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  • 1.  How AI is transforming scholarly research and publishing

    Posted Jun 09, 2025 06:30 PM

    Hi all,

    Has anyone designed/delivered a workshop or presentation for faculty about how AI is transforming scholarly research and publishing? I am putting together some ideas for this type of offering, and would be very interested to see what others have already created with regards to this timely topic. My focus will be more on the big picture than on specific tools, but any content that you have used is welcome. (Likewise, if you didn't do it yourself, but saw a conference presentation or webinar about it, I'd love to know that as well.) Many thanks in advance!

    Amanda Makula



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    Amanda Makula
    Digital Initiatives Librarian, Associate Professor
    University of San Diego Copley Library
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  • 2.  RE: How AI is transforming scholarly research and publishing

    Posted Jun 11, 2025 12:24 PM

    Amanda,

    Hello! I have not done this for faculty in presentation form but sometimes have conversations about new Literature Review discovery tools.  I did a presentation at Charleston back in 2023 with colleagues at University of Colorado Boulder on this landscape of tools using vector search engines.  So this is on the discovery side of the research process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5NgcMbKZg&t=854s  That is the YouTube link to the presentation and this is the deck https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H6pa7O-PlibWGcbT2oK3cWGaRR7NYg5AenDB83xMzOM/edit?usp=sharing In this space not much has changed in 2023. Many of these tools actually pre-date GenAI but did not become well-known until after ChatGPT launched. Once GenAI became popular many of these tools added it on as betas but the strength is in the vector search against publicly available meta data. That makes most of these products STEM heavy.

    If this is what you were looking for and want to talk more just let me know. jlfwml@rit.edu If it's not what you needed just ignore!

    Jennifer Freer



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    Library Liaison
    Rochester Institute of Technology
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  • 3.  RE: How AI is transforming scholarly research and publishing

    Posted Jun 11, 2025 03:57 PM
    Hello Amanda,

    I did a faculty workshop this spring titled "Supercharging Your Research: Harnessing the Power of AI for Literature Reviews and Deep Research". Here is a link to the slides.  https://www.canva.com/design/DAGdtNRDli4/WLksnN3DbfprdkVtVGcsMQ/edit?utm_content=DAGdtNRDli4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton


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