Literature Searching in the Age of AI: Where to Begin

Session Overview 

This hands-on workshop focuses on how to best start basic literature searching using a combination of databases, search engines, and AI tools.  Discussion will cover questions to consider that guide whether an AI tool, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Consensus, and Perplexity, can be helpful in the literature searching process. Participants will practice searching a combination of databases, search engines, and AI tools to critique the results. There will be time for questions and discussion throughout the workshop.

Learning Objectives

• Determine where AI tools may fit into the literature searching workflow
• Compare and contrast answers provided by databases vs. AI tools
• Create prompts to optimize AI tool answers to compliment database searching

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About the series

This session is part of the AI in your Toolkit: Critical approaches to using AI in your work workshop series. The next workshop is October 8, at 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and covers AI Tools for Review Projects.

About the instructor

Josephine Tan, MLIS, is an Education and Research Librarian. She teaches curriculum-integrated literature searching and citation management skills and specializes in medical education research.