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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 7d

"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-...

Why physicians need the counsel of a skilled medical librarian in the era of artificial intelligence

As a biomedical librarian with over 30 years of experience supporting British Columbian physicians, I want to highlight the critical role of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC Library and ad...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 26d

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.🎯

wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Sy...

Knowledge Synthesis (KS) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Search Wiki 2025 - UBC Wiki

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 25

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.

Automated indexing - UBC Wiki

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 22

"...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."

ocul.on.ca/kari-weaver-...

OCUL Appoints Kari Weaver as AI and Machine Learning Program Manager | OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries

The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is delighted to announce the appointment of Kari Weaver, BA, MLIS, Ed.D., as AI and Machine Learning Program Manager.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 22

"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...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

tharandur @tharandur.sbs · Aug 17

📖 Google Scholar Is Doomed

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 9

#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...

Automated indexing - UBC Wiki

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 7

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?
wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...

Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy for librarians - UBC Wiki

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

Prompt engineering - UBC Wiki

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 3

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:
wiki.ubc.ca/Neural_netwo...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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.

Undermind.ai

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.
wiki.ubc.ca/Ethical_conc...

Ethical concerns of AI-searching - UBC Wiki

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 29

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 🕸️

Otto-SR - UBC Wiki

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 21

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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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 18

#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

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...

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

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.

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jul 1

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...

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.

news.ubc.ca

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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · Jun 29

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