Ensuring that we continue to empower and equip you to optimally gain from WWIS products and services. Offering dedicated and proactive learning support that will yield a lasting positive customer experience.
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A range of workshops and services tailored for; emerging researchers, postgraduate students & supervisors from emerging economies, scholarly librarians and professionals in the pharmaceutical industry.
Since ChatGPT’s launch in 2022, a growing number of AI-driven tools designed to assist with literature reviews have been released into the scholarly market. Many of them make exaggerated claims about their ability to streamline and fast-track literature reviews. Only a few of these AI-driven tools rely on reputable literature sources and databases for its third-party data. Moreover, AI-driven tools for literature reviews typically depend on some LLM to support prompting or summarise literature. What is well-known is that hallucinations can occur in AI summaries. What is not so well-known is that LLMs increasingly more train on their own output, leading to AI pollution and AI dilution – and it is getting worse, with implications for non-mainstream or context sensitive GenAI applications In this webinar, Dr Kirstin Krauss will introduce these concerns and then show how to avoid citing polluted science when using AI-driven tools for literature reviews.
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The WWIS Academy was established as another channel through which to offer our customers dedicated support and training for the products and solutions that they subscribe to through WWIS. The aim is to offer our customers an easy-to-access platform to quickly source information and content to better equip them to optimally use their products, tools and solutions and this is echoed in our purpose, vision and mission.
The Purpose
To offer dedicated and proactive learning support that will yield a lasting positive customer experience.
The Vision
To empower and equip our customers to gain optimally from their WWIS products and services.
The Mission
Keeping our customers at the heart of what we do.
The Academy strives to offer support for librarians and researchers through upskilling around topics like, amongst others;
- Tools to help you kickstart your research journey
- Strengthening your NRF submission and enhancing your research profile
- Managing predatory publishing and citation pollution
- Library collection development with evidence-based data
- Supporting and contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
The WWIS Academy offers a blended approach to learning by delivering content through different methodologies because we appreciate that everyone has a different learning style/preference so we have made learning available through:product videos, webinars, online learning (not live yet) and also marketing resources for librarians.
We will also soon be offering PhD workshops that will focus on advanced research and analytical techniques required to undertake high level research in your field.
We are proud that our long-standing Vision of starting an academy officially launched on 13th June 2022.
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