This student-focused guide can help you learn about these topics. Read what's below and explore the left-menu links to discover much more:
GenAI Technology and Tool Types: Learn about this technology, including the basics of how it works and the main types of tools available.
Benefits and Limitations of Using GenAI Tools for Research: Discover both the benefits and limitations of using this technology for research tasks at university.
Using AI Responsibly: Learn about York's Academic Conduct Policy and Procedures, including expectations around AI usage in course work, how to cite AI sources in your assignments, and some strategies to help you verify the validity of AI-generated information.
Writing Better Prompts: Learn practical strategies to get better at prompting so that you get more useful responses from GenAI tools.
Using Advanced AI-based Research Tools: Discover AI-based research discovery & workflow tools that are designed for academic research and are different from mainstream tools like ChatGPT. They can help with literature reviews, summarizing and extracting data from articles and more. Remember these tools are not perfect and for best results with research projects, we recommend you use them in tandem with York University Libraries' discovery layer,
Omni, and our
many databases.
