This poster outlines the Keenious AI-powered research recommendation tool and describes how it was rolled out to campus using a combination of marketing and in-class instruction. Keenious draws on Open Alex, an open bibliographic catalogue of scientific papers, to provide users with suggestions of what to read, based on text input by users. Students and researchers alike may find the tool useful: it allows users to access information such as journal articles, whilst avoiding the ethical implications of generative AI as well as the sometimes-high barriers to entry of a traditional library website/search.
Presenter
Khadija Mahsud, Head of Reference and Library Services, Library Services Directorate, University of Doha for Science and Technology
Khadija is the Head of Reference and Library Services at the University of Doha for Science and Technology. She is a dedicated academic librarian with more than a decade of higher education experience. This includes working at a health sciences library as an instructional librarian; a student learning center as a multimodal communication consultant; and a center for pedagogy where she handled a grant program focused on transformative education and provided instructional consulting. This varied exposure, coupled with her current responsibilities, has deepened Khadija’s commitment to faculty and student success. Khadija has a master’s degree in library and information studies.