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Academic Literature Review In Age Of Ai And Large Language Models​, Aaron Tay

Research Collection Library

Explore the evolving landscape of academic research with a focus on open data and AI advancements, particularly in natural language processing. Join us for a practical presentation on leveraging emerging tools for literature review. Discover platforms like Connected Papers, ResearchRabbit, and Litmaps, offering paper exploration and recommendations based on initial 'seed papers.' Dive into AI-enhanced search engines like Elicit, Scispace, Semantic Scholar, and Scite.ai, powered by Large Language Models such as BERT and GPT. Learn about the latest developments, strengths, and weaknesses of these tools, and how they reshape literature review methods, from tool selection to query input techniques.

Streamlined Workflow For Qualitative Data Analysis With Whisper And Atlas.Ti, Bella Ratmelia, Bryan Leow, Danping Dong

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Qualitative research, often reliant on interviews and focus groups, stands to benefit significantly from the latest advancements and innovations in AI. This workshop presents a practical and efficient research workflow with two powerful tools—Whisper and ATLAS.ti—to streamline the process of qualitative data analysis.

Whisper is an open-source machine learning model for speech recognition and transcription by OpenAI. With the ability to achieve human-level accuracy in speech recognition, it significantly reduces the time and effort required for transcribing, saving your time for more valuable work.

Moving beyond transcription, the workshop presents ATLAS.ti, a well-established qualitative data analysis tool. Learn how to …

Getting Published And Raising Research Visibility, Pin Pin Yeo

Research Collection Library

Embarking on publishing your research can be exciting yet daunting. This seminar will guide you through crafting a compelling paper, navigating the submission process, and enhancing your paper's visibility. Learn what editors and reviewers seek, how to select the right journal, and how to publicise your research effectively. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or new to publishing, join us to amplify the impact of your work and share your discoveries with the world.

Smu Libraries – An Enabling Partner In Ai Information Literacy, Samantha Seah, Zhe Benedict Yeo, Lukas Tschopp

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SMU Libraries plays a pivotal role in advancing AI information literacy within the larger need for digital literacy skills in the SMU community. In this presentation, participants will get an overview of SMU Libraries' engagement and partnerships with the academic community and will showcase initiatives and resources supporting AI literacy. This includes a discussion of insights from the scholarly literature, research findings and critical perspectives to inform teaching and learning practices related to AI. Speakers will share SMU Libraries’ contributions towards awareness and adoption of AI through a portfolio of successful collaborations and initiatives with partners and stakeholders within and …

Evaluating An Institutional Repository: A Case Study Of Singapore Management University, Pin Pin Yeo

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An institutional repository (IR) was launched in 2010 for a university in Singapore. The motivations of setting up an IR were to dissemination the research output through open access, to promote the university and researchers, and to help increase their research impact. Some quantitative and qualitative performance indicators were selected and used to measure the success of the IR. For the review and the performance indicators, the data used came from the IR at SMU, interviews with faculty members, and a study of a set of journal articles available in the IR to test a hypothesis. The results of the …

Preserving The Past: Starting A Digital Preservation Service For The Future, Salihin Mohammed Ali

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SMU Libraries aims to develop an active centralised repository of digital materials that captures the culture, heritage, and memories of the institution. However, starting a digital preservation service and maintaining a long-term preservation system involves significant costs, technical expertise, and organizational commitment. The presentation will outline some of the key steps and considerations for planning and implementing the digital preservation service in the areas such as policy formulation, stakeholder engagement and technical infrastructure. The presentation will also cover how SMU Libraries organised a project team to leverage on existing skills and expertise to overcome the challenges above and relied on …

Ai In Universities And Libraries, Aaron Tay

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Everyone is familiar with ChatGPT. But can ChatGPT alone be used for information retrieval? In this Keynote speech, Aaron argues that ChatGPT or similar large language models alone is not sufficient for information retrieval. As databases such as Scopus, Dimensions announce new beta search tools that leverage generative AI, he provides a overview of how these tools that blend search with generative AI (large language models) work (using a technique known as Retrieval Augmented Generation or RAG) and explains the pros and cons of this new class of search tools.

He ends with a prediction of what the next 3 …

Rapidill Experience Sharing: The Smu Libraries Story, Kai Leong Heng, Vincent Ong

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Advancing And Championing Research: Research Librarians At Smu Libraries, Lip Hwee Tee, Benedict Yeo, Redzuan Abdullah

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The presenters discuss the critical value that research librarians bring to the research ecosystem of a university. This overview highlights key responsibilities and functions undertaken by research librarians. In their muti-faceted contributions, research librarians provide well-rounded support to the university, across all user segments, in areas of education and research.

Further to that, Research Librarians lead or contribute as key members to strategic developments and service innovations. These include the development of a systematic literature review support service, setup and expansion of an Investment and Data Studio, and research support in SMU’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Writer-Librarian Viewpoint: Ai’S Foreseeable Impact On Literature, Zhe Benedict Yeo

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In 1982, Roald Dahl wrote a short story about a supercomputer which solves the world's big factual questions in seconds. Next, they used it generate stories and changed the literature scene forever.
Is ChatGPT the cusp of this change?

Benedict, as both a fiction writer and librarian, discusses AI's foreseeable impact on authorship and literature, its applications for writing, and possible implication on classification, credits, and collection with regard to literature, especially fiction.
This presentation features insights from interviews with four writers, talks about the strike by the Writers Guild of America, and about the citing and crediting of AI-generated …

Responsible Practices For Responsible Libraries: The Role Of Libraries In A World Of Generative Ai, Samantha Seah

Research Collection Library

This presentation focuses on generative AI images and potential information literacy and ethical issues relating to the use and creation of AI images. Generative AI technology has made the creation and modification of images easier and more accessible to a layperson. However images are often overlooked in information literacy programmes despite growing evidence that people consume most information through visual and video formats thanks to the rise of social media platforms like TikTok. This presentation will consider ACRL’s framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, whereby in looking at information creation as a process, we need to not only look …

Discoverability And Search Engine Visibility Of Repository Platforms, Danping Dong, Aaron Tay

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It is of increasing interest and importance to understand the discoverability of content hosted on institutional repositories (IRs) and data repositories beyond the library context and on the wider web, as IRs play a significant role in promoting and disseminating the research outputs of an institution. This chapter provides an overview of early studies on IR discoverability in search engines, discusses standardized metrics for repository usage and ways to monitor search engine optimization, and provides practical suggestions to expose IR content to non-Google indexes and aggregators, such as Unpaywall. The second part of this chapter presents a case study and …

Academic Libraries In An Open Access And Ai First World – An Attempt To Peer Into The Future, Aaron Tay

Research Collection Library

Technology is rapidly advancing, and AI is becoming more sophisticated everyday, But what is even more exciting is that academic libraries are going to be impacted even more. Why is that? It's because even the most advanced algorithm will not work without data to train on.

The Emerging Area Of Data Services: A Case Of Smu Libraries, Bella Ratmelia

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No abstract provided.

Smu's Research Data Management Journey: Policy, Engagement And Feasibility, Danping Dong, Pin Pin Yeo

Research Collection Library

In this case study, we cover Research Data Management (RDM) policy development at SMU, the implementation of SMU’s Research Data Repository. The outreach and engagement carried out at the launch and subsequently. We reflect on what we learnt in the process. We also did a pilot feasibility study of using Figshare as a paper repository and report on our findings.

Development Of Institutional Repositories In Singapore, Pin Pin Yeo

Research Collection Library

The keynote presented the development of institutional repositories (IR) by universities in Singapore. The relevant policies on open access and research data were introduced. The importance of IR alignment with institutional goals was highlighted. Besides research publications, IRs could also host special collections of the institution or the community. The collaboration and sharing of best practices among Singapore academic libraries helped them to better support research at their institutions.

Building Desktops In The Clouds: Virtualising The Investment Studio, Salihin Mohammed Ali

Research Collection Library

Arising from experiences during and post-COVID-19 circuit breaker and work-from-home arrangements, SMU Libraries developed a new library service to provide remote access to financial databases that are usually only accessible onsite. Financial databases such as Bloomberg and Eikon are accessed using a client-based software that is installed on a physical computer in the Investment Studio at Li Ka Shing Library. Using desktop virtualization technology, financial databases can be accessed remotely without the need of physical presence in the library, increasing availability and accessibility to the resources. This presentation aims to share the challenges in setting up the service from a …

Open Access In Singapore, Pin Pin Yeo

Research Collection Library

The blog post outlines how academic libraries in Singapore support Open Access and Open Science trends. It covers open access repositories in Singapore, the content and growth of OA publications. It covers the libraries support Open Data and Open Science and the data repositories in Singapore. Some publisher agreements were negotiated by NUS, and further discussions with selected publishers are in progress.

Digital Tools - Supporting Systematic Reviews & Evidence Synthesis. Where Are We Now And What Might The Future Look Like?, Aaron Tay

Research Collection Library

Invited talk for ALIA HLA Lunchtime Seminar Aug 2022. In this invited talk, I survey the new emerging discovery tools mostly powered by open scholarly data, from new mega discovery indexes like Lens.org, Semantic Scholar to what I call literature review mapping tools (eg ResearchRabbit, Connected Papers, Litmaps) as well as “AI” power tools like Elicit.org and Scite.ai that use machine learning to enhance discovery in various ways. I suggest keys to understand and assessing such tools. Given the target audience of health science librarians, I briefly survey current use of such tools in evidence synthesis as well as the …

How Do Information Specialists Keep Up To Date?, Aaron Tay

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The working environment of information specialists is undergoing profound changes. This is primarily due to rapid advances in digitalization and automation. New databases are being set up or new functions added to established databases. At the same time, data processing and analysis have reached a new level (e.g. through machine learning). In addition, many new software tools to support daily work are being developed. But how do information specialists find out about new developments and assess the practical suitability of new tools?

Nowadays, an abundance of information on new developments in information retrieval can be found on the Internet. In …

Open Access Enables New Tools And Features, Aaron Tay

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Open Access levels are now at a tipping point. According to Digital Science’s Dimensions for the year 2020, Open Access surpassed subscription publication globally for the first time (Hook, 2021). Similarly in Dec 2020, with Elsevier agreeing to deposit open references to Crossref (the last major publisher to do), over 90% of Crossref references are now open (Hutchin, 2021). The combination of these two trends, both Open Access to full text and Open Scholarly metadata as well as Machine learning techniques has led to a rise of new tools in areas such as literature mapping , new indexes and new …

Revisiting The One-Minute Paper: Personal Reflections, Student Engagement And Assessing The Assessment, Rebecca Pappert Maniates

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The one-minute paper (OMP) is a popular one-shot session assessment which often consists of asking two questions: 1 . What is the most important thing you learned today? 2 . What questions do you still have? Although simple, each question has a purpose. The first is broad, focusing on the importance of concepts learned (Chizmar & Ostrosky, 1998), and promotes active learning and reflection (Stead, 2005). The second assesses the progress of the learning process and where support is still needed (Chizmar & Ostrosky, 1998).Although studies show the OMP is effective when assessing student knowledge before and after one-shot sessions …

Supporting Learning And Teaching Using A Reading List Management System, Eng Ling Lynn Yeo

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Reading List Management Systems (RLMS) were created to allow faculty, libraries, and students to curate and access readings and resources easily. In this session, the presenter shared on how Singapore Management University (SMU), make use of the RLMS Leganto, to support learning and teaching in a hybrid learning environment

Implementing A Copyright Chatbot At Smu Libraries: Technology, Challenge And User Experience, Nazimah Ram Nath

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Academics and students use copyrighted materials frequently in the course of their teaching and learning journey. How can they be informed about compliance and users’ rights? This presentation takes one into a SMU Libraries’ journey in creating a chatbot using an interactional conversation interface, to bring copyright information to users.

Game Changing Factors Impacting The Scholarly Records, Aaron Tay

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Invited talk for 18th Annual Library Leadership Institute - Hong Kong | 17 - 20 January 2022.

In this 2022 talk Aaron Tay, reflects and expands on the talk he gave at the OCLC APRC in 2018 where he proposes 3 main trends that will impact the long term future of academic libraries.

1. Increasing diversity of the Scholarly Record

2. Push towards "Open"

3. Increasing effectiveness of technology - e.g.. Machine learning.

All three trends work indepdendently as well as reinforce each other. In this updated talk he give examples of some of these trends from the use of …

Growing And Sustaining An Institutional Repository: An Example From Singapore Management University, Pin Pin Yeo, Danping Dong

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The presentation introduced SMU's institutional repository called InK and research data repository RDR, discussed the services, strategies and promotion of InK, policies that support open access, open access citation advantage in InK.

The ‘Workflow Librarian’ Reaching Library Users Where They Are, Matthew Hayes, Rebecca Blakiston, Aaron Tay, Roger Schonfeld

Research Collection Library

How do libraries add value for patrons increasingly working outside library-preferred workflows (e.g. searching via Google Scholar), and accessing the library’s collection off-campus? This is a question of profound relevance to all library stakeholders – librarians, publishers, and patrons alike – and one that must be addressed to maintain mission relevance. It will mean finding new ways of service delivery and service provision that support learning and research not just remotely, but outside library-preferred workflows. It will mean putting the library ‘in the life of the user’ by designing library services that ‘surface content in the places where users actually …

Information Literacy Implementation In Smu​, Rajendra Munoo, Zhenyan Li

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Developing Data Skills In Malaysian And Singapore Librarians Via Online Library Carpentry, Namita Santra, Belinda Sta Maria, Danping Dong

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The Carpentries is a global community teaching data science and computational skills to librarians, researchers in academia, industry and government. The various initiatives include Library Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry. Organisations interested in upskilling their staff may conduct Carpentries workshops based on openly available lesson materials and customise the content according to their needs and audiences.

The first Library Carpentry workshop was jointly organised by LAS and Nanyang Technological University Libraries in June 2019 in Singapore. Inspired by the success of the workshop in cultivating data skills in librarians, Monash Malaysia Library planned to organise a similar …

Mining The Richness Of Digital Chat Transcripts – An Smu Libraries Experience In Connecting With Our Community, Shameem Nilofar Maideen, William Koh

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The Covid-19 pandemic and the pivoting of library services to digital platforms have provided libraries worldwide the opportunity to extend the reach of their services to their communities. Where physical locations and operating hours used to be a barrier, the digital realm has freed many users to reach out and take advantage of the variety of services that are now truly available anytime, anywhere. This is being evidenced in the surge in access to electronic resources, the increasing numbers of attendees to online workshops, the upward trend in the use of chat services by the community, to name a few. …