Dean Giustini
@giustini.bsky.social
UBC biomed librarian, searching, indexing, opera in Vancouver BC
KS & AI Wiki https://wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Synthesis_(KS)_%26_Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)_Search_Wiki_2025 #medlibs
KS & AI Wiki https://wiki.ubc.ca/Knowledge_Synthesis_(KS)_%26_Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)_Search_Wiki_2025 #medlibs
Thanks to the convenors of the @medlibassn.bsky.social "Systematic Review Caucus" for hosting me. I think we had about 70 participants but here is the data from the two polls I adminstered during my presentation📚
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Thanks to the convenors of the @medlibassn.bsky.social "Systematic Review Caucus" for hosting me. I think we had about 70 participants but here is the data from the two polls I adminstered during my presentation📚
"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!
✒️MLA “Systematic Review” caucus
🗽Library Association webinars e.g., CHLA/ABSC, MLA
📕Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com
🛟Key journals
🤣Other? Please comment, thanks!
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"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!
✒️MLA “Systematic Review” caucus
🗽Library Association webinars e.g., CHLA/ABSC, MLA
📕Aaron Tay aarontay.substack.com
🛟Key journals
🤣Other? Please comment, thanks!
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/
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/
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 …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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/
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:
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Top twelve (12) Entries by "Most to Least Views:
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
Knowledge Synthesis (KS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Related Topics... #artificial_intelligence #knowledge_synthesis
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
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:
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
Amazing - 250,000 views in a short period. Browse for info:
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
October 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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:
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
Amazing - 250,000 views in a short period. Browse for info:
wiki.ubc.ca/User:DeanGiu...
"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-...
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...
bcmj.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"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-...
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.
Talk to your librarian folks about using other sources, too.
September 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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.
Talk to your librarian folks about using other sources, too.
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...
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
wiki.ubc.ca
September 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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...
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...
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...
August 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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.
🖊️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
wiki.ubc.ca
August 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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.
🖊️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.
"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...
ocul.on.ca
August 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"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...
Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell.
wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar
wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar
August 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell.
wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar
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...
Automated indexing - UBC Wiki
wiki.ubc.ca
August 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#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?
wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy for librarians - UBC Wiki
wiki.ubc.ca
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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...
wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
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
wiki.ubc.ca
August 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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:
wiki.ubc.ca/Neural_netwo...
🐧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...
August 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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...
🐧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...
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.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
August 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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.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.
wiki.ubc.ca/Ethical_conc...
📝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
wiki.ubc.ca
July 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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...
📝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...
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 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
wiki.ubc.ca
July 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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 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
wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
🖊️n=29 papers on AI searching in lit / systematic reviews
It's a start. More wiki entries later. #medlibs
wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
July 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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...
🖊️n=29 papers on AI searching in lit / systematic reviews
It's a start. More wiki entries later. #medlibs
wiki.ubc.ca/Artificial_i...
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
📭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
July 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
📭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
#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
✍️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...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
July 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#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
✍️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
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...
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.
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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...
I mean...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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...
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
July 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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...
Long live authoritative reference works! news.ubc.ca/2025/06/cana...
BREAKING @Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train #Claude is “fair use” but faces trial for using 7 million pirated books in a “central library” to train its #AI model. #Anthropic infringed copyrights by using these pirated texts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... #librarians #medlibs
storage.courtlistener.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
BREAKING @Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train #Claude is “fair use” but faces trial for using 7 million pirated books in a “central library” to train its #AI model. #Anthropic infringed copyrights by using these pirated texts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... #librarians #medlibs