Here are the Ex Libris products/tools we currently are investigating and/or utilizing at UT Dallas. Primo Research Assistant Metadata AI Assistant Specto Current Issues I have seen Primo Research Assistant - Issue One: When you search with the Research Assistant, while the article is referenced, where the data is pulled from within the article is not. Most of the results seem to pull from the Abstract of an article, not the article itself. This can make it difficult to see if the data has any hallucinations. This is especially true if unowned content is referenced, which leads to point two. . Issue two: Articles will be pulled from anywhere, not just owned content, as long as they are part of your catalog and have an abstract. There is no clear way or intuitive way to have only items owned by the library included in the return results. This may need to be refined more in the future. Issue Three: Five articles, while okay in beta, maybe a bit limiting for real-world applications. Giving a synopsis on a specific topic based on just bases of just five results could lead to false conclusions. If a synopsis is based on more than just the 5, then an easy way to access the underlying data for the synopsis should be available to the user. Issue Four: Source refinement: I might want to limit the results to only specific information sources. There is no clear way to direct the research assistant to do this. What I do like, The layout of the tool is good, I think that, given some work, it could be a valuable way for students/faculty to get a top-level overview of a topical matter. Requests: I would want to have some sort of embedded staff tool to request assistance if students had follow-up and for the query the students utilized to be able to be shared with staff along with the results that were provided. This would allow staff to understand better what the student did and the results that the research assistant provided and compare those results with what they see if they do the same query. Davin Pate, M.L.S. Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications and Collections Interim Chair Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group(ELUNA) (972) 883-2908 |davin.pate@utdallas.edu<mailto:|davin.pate@utdallas.edu> http://www.utdallas.edu/library/ The University of Texas at Dallas [cid:image001.png@01DBA25A.BFD698B0]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/af697753dcc24b9e926afe35e8e84e9d@...> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/af697753dcc24b9e926afe35e8e84e9d@...> From: Pate, Davin <djp130330@utdallas.edu> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2025 4:30 PM To: ai-sig@exlibrisusers.org Subject: [Ai-sig] Topic Discussion (Ex Libris/ProQuest/Clarivate AI Products) Hi Everyone, I wanted to begin our initial Topic Discussion series with the following: What Clarivate/ProQuest/Ex Libris AI Products/Tools are you or your university currently investigating? What have you liked about the products and have you seen any Initial problems or concerns regarding the products? If you have seen a significant concern, what case have you submitted, if any, and the case number associated with the issue. I hope to track the information on a spreadsheet and provide it to the related working groups/steering. We have a number of Ex Libris developers on this list so it will also assist with pointing out issues as well as sharing what people are finding helpful. Thanks again for your contributions, Davin Pate, M.L.S. Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications and Collections (972) 883-2908 |davin.pate@utdallas.edu<mailto:%7Cdavin.pate@utdallas.edu> http://www.utdallas.edu/library/ The University of Texas at Dallas [cid:image001.png@01DBA25A.BFD698B0]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/af697753dcc24b9e926afe35e8e84e9d@...> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/af697753dcc24b9e926afe35e8e84e9d@...>
