Generative AI for Research: Literature Tools Showcase

This workshop demonstrates how five AI enabled tools compare for finding literature.

Participants rotate through five stations, one for each tool. At each station, a facilitator will provide a brief overview covering the tool's creator, underlying model(s), corpus, key features, and what account or subscription is needed to access it. The facilitator will then run a live demonstration search.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Compare tools across key dimensions: corpus coverage, model type, available features, and access requirements.
• Evaluate search results from multiple AI tools for the same query to assess accuracy, completeness, and potential bias.
• Select tools appropriate to their own research needs and stage of the research process.

This in-person workshop has limited capacity; please register to reserve your seat. If you have accommodation requests or questions, reach out to libevents@uwaterloo.ca with your needs.