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Posted by Margot M on March 5th, 2026
Posted in: Communities of Interest
Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, hospital librarians
This is the first in a series of blog posts from hospital librarians using AI in their work. This post was submitted by Johanna Goldberg, MSLIS, Research Informationist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Library.
No matter whether you personally use Generative AI (GenAI) tools, health sciences library professionals need to keep current with the GenAI landscape. Here are three tools that can help you accomplish this overwhelming task.
The first two are from Ithaka S+R. Their Generative AI Tracker is a sortable spreadsheet of GenAI tools, including links and descriptions. It also assigns the tools one or more categories (Search & Discovery, Research Workflow, Teaching & Learning, and Writing), lists their data sources and pricing information when known, and includes dates for when the information was most recently updated.
The Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker is a spreadsheet, last updated in August, that includes a list of deals made between publishers and tech companies. While much information remains undisclosed, the chart is a helpful tool for staying abreast of how published information is being bought and sold for use by AI.
Finally, if you are interested in how AI is showing up uninvited in the research literature, there’s Academ-AI. Created by Alex Glynn, this tracker has identified more than 1,050 examples of AI usage that were undisclosed by authors of journal articles, conference papers, books, and dissertations. These publications are identified “based on phrases that strongly suggest AI use,” including “as an AI language model” (yes, that phrase has made it into peer-reviewed publications). The tool also tracks if and when publications receive corrections.
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