Tech Showdown – AI Search Tools Special Issue

2025/03/10 by Cassandra Gorton · 2 voices
Business, Management and Accounting · #Big Data and Business Intelligence

paper · pdf · doi:10.55999/johila.v5i1.188

Abstract

New digital tools for literature searching are emerging almost weekly, making it challenging for librarians to stay updated. Imagine how overwhelming it must be for our patrons, who balance clinical responsibilities, research, and professional development alongside this constant influx of tools. How can we keep up with these tools? How can we identify and meet user needs? How can we recommend digital tools effectively?

Discussions

• List rating AI search tools. Criteria can be found at doi.org/10.55999/joh.... "we determined that Consensus, Evidence Hunt, Lens,org, Semantic Scholar were the most useful tools, having a ranking of [bsky, 30 points, 2 comments]
• New overview of AI search tools from Cassandra Gorton doi.org/10.55999/joh... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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