Sitemap - 2025 - Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship

What Do We Actually Mean by "AI-Powered Search"?

Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs

Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers - Wiley AI Gateway & PubMed - How Claude can now pilot test search strategies using PubMed

Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era

A 2025 Deep Dive of Consensus: Promises and Pitfalls in AI-Powered Academic Search

ResearchRabbit’s 2025 Revamp: iterative chaining without the clutter

“We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands - a Provocation

FORCE2026 in Singapore — Call for Proposals now open (extended 9 Nov 2025)

Implications of AI-powered academic search - Recorded Talk

The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Google's AI Mode: It Can Out-Search You, But Can It Out-Evaluate You?

What Academic "Deep Research" Is Really For

Why I Think Academic Deep Research — or at Least Deep Search — Will “Win”

Why embedding vector search is probably one of the least objectionable use of AI for search

The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search

The Case of the Vanishing Hit Count: Rethinking Query Craftsmanship in a Post-Boolean World— Reflections from Day 2 of my FSCI 2025 workshop on AI‑powered search

My favourite explainers of Transformers, LLMs and related technology

A Deep Dive into EBSCOhost's Natural Language Search and Web of Science Smart Search - Two bundled "Ai-powered"search (II)

Fact checking vs Academic inquiry mindset - are people confusing the two? A discussion

A Deep Dive into EBSCOhost's Natural Language Search and Web of Science Smart Search - Two bundled "Ai-powered"search (I)

Charleston Conference Asia 2026 in Bangkok & FORCE2026 in Singapore: Two Conferences for Researchers and Librarians in the Asia-Pacific

How should academic retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems handle retracted works? (II)

How should academic retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems handle retracted works?

Comparative review on Primo Research Assistant, Scopus AI, Web of Science Research Assistant and a explainer for AI search for librarians

Ai2 Paper Finder and Futurehouse PaperQA2: More transparent Deep Search for Scholars?

Testing AI Academic Search Engines - What to find out and how to test (2)

The reproducibility and interpretability of academic Ai search engines like Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, Scopus Ai and more

Testing AI Academic Search Engines (1): Defining the tools

The Rise of Agent-Based Deep Research: Exploring OpenAI’s Deep Research, Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity Deep Research, Ai2 ScholarQA, STORM, and More in 2025

When is a Hallucination Not a Hallucination? The Role of Implicit Knowledge in RAG

Learning about information retrieval and "AI search" in 2025