Dean Giustini

Thanks Martine!

"Which of the following (including experts) sources do you use primarily to stay current with AI developments in evidence synthesis?”

✒️MLA “Systematic Review” caucus
🗽Library Association webinars e.g., CHLA/ABSC, MLA
📕Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com
🛟Key journals
🤣Other? Please comment, thanks!

Defining emergency physicians' consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review - PubMed Emergency physicians assume multiple consultative roles within health systems. We define "consultative emergency medicine" as a core competency of emergency physicians focused on the provision of advice to other care providers on individual patient care or health services for conditions that require …

Three (3) years with emerg docs. But "mission accomplished"; hope it makes an impact 🥳

Cunningham, Bobrovitz, Shanmugaraj, Giustini D, Collins. Defining emergency physicians' consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review. CJEM. 2025 Nov 3. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41182684/

Top twelve (12) Entries by "Most to Least Views:
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Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis

50+ entries on #knowledge_synthesis topics, #artificial_intelligence issues in libraries, and AI powered search tools such as #Elicit, #Undermind & @openevidence.bsky.social

Amazing - 250,000 views in a short period. Browse for info:
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"Why physicians need the counsel of a skilled medical librarian in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)". Oct2025. British Columbia Medical Journal

By implementing interim measures, the CPSBC can mitigate Library’s closure & make a commitment to evidence-based care. bcmj.org/letters/why-...

Consensus.app is an AI-powered search tool using #Copilot based on LLM; ask a question, click on search, get an answer with bullet points / references to published papers. No fake citations—but summaries have errors. wiki.ubc.ca/Consensus

Talk to your librarian folks about using other sources, too.

Hey thanks Wendy. Would love to see you sometime. Perhaps at the new house for V, B and B? have a good w/e 😀

This open textbook (or wiki channel) is intended to help librarians and other information professionals learn about #AI.

It is not, in itself, meant to be seen as promotion of #AI.

50 entries in 6 weeks; 125,000 views. Seems a hit.🎯

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Here comes ASTA — scholarly research assistant w/ coverage via corpus of 108M+ scholarly abstracts & 12M+ full text in Semantic Scholar. Initiative of Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) "to accelerate scientific discovery through trustworthy open-source agentic AI." Untested. wiki.ubc.ca/Asta_(agenti...

Automated indexing wiki.ubc.ca/Automated_in...

🖊️NLM uses neural network technology to index MEDLINE
💹Since 2024, NLM has indexed millions of papers using AI
⤴️Tools such as Undermind.ai and Elicit.com will destabilize subject indexing, so I'm doing research proving that the latter is still needed.

"...In her role as the AI and Machine Learning Program Manager, Kari will help build awareness, competency, knowledge, and skill levels among library staff across Ontario and support the program’s five pilot projects."

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"OCUL Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Survey August 2025" Kari Weaver, AI & Machine Learning, Program Manager - how to advance objectives & values of academic librarianship in AI era "to understand training needs of library workers in Ontario universities ..." ocul.on.ca/sites/defaul...

Note I cite Hannah's blogpost bsky.app/profile/thar...

Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell.
wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar

#Automated_indexing may be performed using a range of computer-based methods, #algorithms (hence, the phrase algorithmic indexing), #natural_language_processing and even #artificial_intelligence (AI). Most library databases and indexes use some form of AI. wiki.ubc.ca/Automated_in...

OpenAI openai.com leads the AI space, but big Silicon Valley companies are developing new tools & experimenting with AI-powered academic search. Perhaps faculty or students are asking you to present these tools to classes? How can you keep your job while pushing back?
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Is prompt engineering key in performing AI-based knowledge synthesis tasks? The value of a prompt may be worth exploring in AI-powered searching, where search tools employ retrieval augmented generation. AI search tools such as Undermind and Elicit assist searchers wiki.ubc.ca/Prompt_engin...

The #MTIX (Medical Text Indexer neXt gen) is NLM's automated indexing / AI powered indexing system that uses #NeuralNetworks

🐧To know #MEDLINE in 2025, we must know more about AI & neural networks.

😇Here's the Knowledge Synthesis and AI wiki entry:
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Undermind - Radically better research and discovery Our AI assistant carefully reads hundreds of academic papers for you, finding exactly what you need, no matter how complex.

Giustini DM. (2025). Undermind.ai (product review). JCHLA/JABSC 46(2), 42–46. journals.library.ualberta.ca/jchla/index....

Undermind.ai is a useful tool for researchers delivering weighted relevant content when scoping topics for literature (& other) reviews. Performance is improving all the time.

Ethical concerns of AI for librarians:
📝Librarian values in major conflict w/ AI
📁Systemic bias, lack of fairness;
🔓 Privacy & data security issues;
🚫Intellectual property; copyright infringement
🚋Lack of transparency; transparency; accountability

Ah well, it's a start.
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Open Evidence - UBC Wiki wiki.ubc.ca/Otto-SR

Otto-SR ottosr.com is an AI-powered platform designed to automate process of conducting systematic reviews (SRs). Recently, I spoke to developers & read their paper:

medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

#medlibs I'll evaluate these tools on my new wiki 🕸️

Artificial intelligence (AI) Search Tools Used in Literature Reviews and Comprehensive Searching / Giustini, 2025
🖊️n=29 papers on AI searching in lit / systematic reviews
It's a start. More wiki entries later. #medlibs

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Re: PubMed.AI

📭AI-powered tool designed to "enhance" searches and support evidence-based med decision-making
✏️Is @NLM_NIH behind this AI? If not, who is? I can't see anything to indicate transparency.

Talk to a medical librarian, folks. #medlibs

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Re: @openevidence.bsky.social #PubMedAI

📭OpenEvidence outperforms pubmed.ai by delivering concise, clinically focused summaries
✏️Clinicians should use these tools as adjuncts to, not replacements for, clinical expertise and comprehensive resources like UpToDate.

/1of2 #medlibs

Google Scholar as a Resource for Systematic Reviews in Clinical Medicine - PubMed Google Scholar, as the most inclusive resource, should be used along with other established resources for systematic reviews. Advances in artificial intelligence may facilitate its use for this scient...

#GoogleScholar as a Resource for Systematic Reviews in Clinical Medicine" by Matthew Falagas et al.
✍️Interesting! GS research has changed tons since 2004
🤳GS will probably go AI in the next year or two
💅#PubMed & other searches will be subsumed by AI pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40652554/ #medlibs

Signs of AI-generated text found in 14% of biomedical abstracts last year Abstracts included telltale words, such as ‘unparalleled’ and ‘invaluable’, that are common in text generated by large language models.

One in 7 biomedical papers were likely written with AI help in 2022-24. Researchers searched for 'style words' after November 2022 as ChatGPT hit. 1.5 million papers indexed in PubMed had 200,000+ using these words unrelated to the content of the research🤨

I mean...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We do have a book drop, floor 2. You should be able to get up to the library and drop your book off there, right of the front door. I am not back in the branch until July 2nd alas! I am doing a review of LGBTQ vocabularies in MEDLINE. It would be good to contact you sometime for your POV. cheers, d

Talk Canadian to me: Dictionary of Canadianisms goes mobile in time for July 1 - UBC News Explore over 14,500 Canadianisms —celebrating how we speak, coast to coast.

Dictionary of '#Canadianisms' gets major #CanadaDay🇨🇦3rd edition (2025) update. Librarians will continue to purchase & use reference sources in their work. "Authority" is important in an era of AI hallucination. #misinformation

Long live authoritative reference works! news.ubc.ca/2025/06/cana...

We do have a book drop, floor 2. You should be able to get up to the library and drop your book off there, right of the front door. I am not back in the branch until July 2nd alas! I am doing a review of LGBTQ vocabularies in MEDLINE. It would be good to contact you sometime for your POV. cheers, d