Resources for help

• If you are working from another university campus: How to connect to Eduroam (and what is it?): https://ithelp.viu.ca/TDClient/169/ITPortal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=1573
• MEDS Library Guide: https://library.viu.ca/meds
• MEDL Library Guide: https://library.viu.ca/medl
• Getting Started with the VIU Library: https://library.viu.ca/getstarted
• Library Skills Tutorial: How to Search the Library
• Scholarly and Peer Reviewed Information (Library Guide): https://library.viu.ca/scholarly
• Annotated Bibliographies (Library Guide): https://library.viu.ca/annotated
• Literature Reviews (Library Guide): https://library.viu.ca/litreviews
  • Practitioner approaches and uses for the lit review: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/overview/services-you/community-scholars/literature-reviews
• Citing Your Sources (Library Guide): https://library.viu.ca/citing — includes advice and resources for:
  • APA style
  • Indigenous citation
  • Citation management
  • AI and citation
• VIU’s statement on Academic Integrity and Generative Artificial Intelligence: Context, Considerations, Emerging Best Practices

A couple of resources to consider regarding research journalling

• Cooksey, R., & McDonald, G. (2019). How should I record my research journey? (pp. 55-71). In Surviving and thriving in postgraduate research (2nd ed.). Springer. Retrieved from: https://books.google.ca/books?id=_ZSfDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PR6&ots=EVg9FsuKjA&lr&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false

• Engin, M. (2011). Research Diary: A Tool for Scaffolding. International Journal of Qualitative Methods: ARCHIVE, 10(3), 296-306. Retrieved from: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ijqm/index.php/IJQM/article/view/8069
  • more

Suggested Databases for Education: literacy, reading and writing, and science of learning

• ERIC
• PsycINFO
• MLA International Bibliography
• Literature Online (LION)

AI-enabled Resources

A rich learning experience involves acquiring new knowledge and making sense of it and is
fundamentally a social process with human interaction at the core.

U15 Canada, Navigating AI in Teaching and Learning,
September 2024

These examples currently offer a free level of access without account creation, and may be of interest to explore. Terms of service and privacy policies may be subject to change, so please review these to ensure that they are acceptable to you.

• Connected Papers – Look up a paper of interest and set it as the starting point for a graph of related papers.
• LitMaps – based on one citation locate other articles of interest and generate a visual literature map to support development of your literature review e.g. this one
• Ai2 OpenScholar (demo) – “Synthesizing 8M+ open access research papers. A joint project between Semantic Scholar and the University of Washington. OpenScholar (8B) can make mistakes. Check source documents by following citations”
  • Context piece: OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research, VentureBeat, November 20, 2024
• Perplexity.ai – allows you to ask and refine your question, and review the range of sources that support the AI-generated response.
  • Context piece: Perplexity AI Vs Journalism: The Risks We Need To Anticipate, Forbes, June 25, 2024
  • For example in the response for “research in support of and critiquing scavenger hunts to promote learning and engagement” how would you characterize the various cited sources — perhaps consulting the library guide to Scholarly and Peer Reviewed Information? Which sources seem to have been more or less influential in forming the AI response? In what ways might you consider using the sources that the AI tool has surfaced?
• SciSpace – example of chat with pdf that does not currently require account creation. Please consider carefully the rights of authors before uploading any content to this or other sites.
• Claude
  • Context piece: It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically, Vox, August 5, 2024