Global Health Capstone Students! See the tips below, but also make sure to check our our guide on How to Use Zotero to Create Your Bibliography.

Here are five tips to get your semester started right:

1. Looking for articles? Install the LibKey Nomad browser plug-in. It will Iink to PDFs (one click!!) while browsing certain sites including PubMed, WOS, publisher websites, and Wikipedia.
2. Looking for articles? Another great option is to collect references in Zotero and find PDFs there. Read more.
3. Speaking of PubMed, use our PubMed link - this will give you the "Find@UVA" option to find articles (a good option to the LibKey plugin above). And view our "PubMed 101 for Public Health" for searching tips.
4. See below or visit our Connecting from Off-Grounds for more options to access library resources.
5. Need to use library printers? Get your laptop or phone set up now on the new PaperCut system.
6. Ask Us! We are here to help you.

There are many considerations for using Generative AI (Gen AI) tools such as ChatGPT in your research and writing. Below are some points especially relevant to Public Health capstone work and research papers.

1. Choose a tool. This is a partial list of many options, focusing on free and UVA-licensed tools:
   • ChatGPT
   • Copilot Chat - UVA subscription
   • Consensus - UVA subscription to  for an AI-powered search engine designed to take in research questions, find relevant insights within research papers, and synthesize the results.
   • Claude
   • Gemini
   • Perplexity
   • Research Rabbit 
2. Guidance
   1. Here are some student-oriented guides that you may find useful:
      1. Using Generative AI to Support Your Learning as a Student - UChicago - lists areas where you might want to use AI (e.g. brainstorming and idea generation) and provides sample prompts for each
      2. AI Chatbots vs Search Engines: What's the Difference? (Brown U) - discusses information retrieval via chatbots and how to use AI (or not) in your search strategies
      3. Comparing Chatbots (UCSD) - guide primarily features free and "freemium" tools like those listed above
      4. AI Research Tools (Georgetown) - chart comparing chatbot features
   2. See the University Library page on Generative AI for more tips, or the university's GENAI page's FAQs.
   3. What are you sharing? Gen AI engines may save your entire conversation, including every prompt you enter, to be used for training the system. You should not enter sensitive, personal, or proprietary information into any Gen AI system.
3. Generate good prompts
   1. Prompts are how you query, or talk to a chatbot. Good prompting is essential to effective use of these tools. See these helpful guides with examples of prompts:
      1. Research with Generative AI - Prompt Examples (SMU)
      2. How to Craft Prompts (Georgetown U)
      3. Ultimate ChatGPT Cheat Sheet
      4. Getting Started with Prompts (Harvard)
4. Accuracy
   1. AI generated text must be fact-checked for accuracy. Tools are often not up-to-date and many don't have access to scholarly publications for their content.
   2. If you're using AI to generate references, double-check the citations they generate - they may be "hallucinated" (i.e. fabricated).

Citing Artificial Intelligence (AI)

What to Cite

Typically, AI-generated text, images, figures, code, and other content should be acknowledged in your paper or manuscript. See below for guidance and styles from a variety of organizations. Once exception is the use of AI programs for grammar and editing (e.g. Grammarly).

For your capstone work, you will need to cite the use of AI and how you used it, e.g. in brainstorming, editing, literature searching, etc.

How to Cite

1. For APA, see the APA policy on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarly materials as found on the APA Publishing Policies guide.
2. For MLA and Chicago, see the University Library guide on Citing AI-generated Content.
3. For AMA, see this guide from USC Libraries that contains AMA's policy on Acknowledgment of Use of Artificial Intelligence and Language Models in Writing and Editing.
4. For IEEE, see their guidelines which describe what to disclose and where to do so.
5. The Association for Computing Machinery has policy and guidance on using generative AI for your manuscript.
6. For additional guidance, see the page Publisher Statements on AI from the University Library.

There are several ways to connect to the libraries' online books, journals, and databases from off-Grounds:

These sources review other materials, mostly journal articles, to provide a synthesized account of the best literature on a topic. Often a good starting point for your research.

Multi-Database Interfaces

These interfaces allow you to search collections of library databases at once.

Complete List of All UVA Library Databases

• Visit the A-Z list of library databases to browse the best sources to find literature, either by Title or by Subject

See more Psychology and Social Science databases via the University Library Subject Guides.

• Public Health and Social Care
  Hard-to-find materials from the front lines of healthcare and social-care providers, researchers, and organizations. Search for white papers, government documents, information from think tanks, and more. For broader coverage, see the parent database Policy Commons with more than 3 million reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of more than 21,000 IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers.
   
• POLITICO PRO

Provides dedicated coverage of 15 policy areas spanning the entire policy landscape and include: Agriculture, Budget & Appropriations, Campaigns, Cybersecurity, Defense, Education, eHealth, Energy, Financial Services, Health Care, Labor & Employment, Tax, Technology, Trade, and Transportation. Its reporters and editors are the most distinguished and expert in their field.

• Policy File Index

Access to timely, updated information for over 75 public policy topics from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities. Most records link directly to the full-text report, paper, document, or other source.

• Overton

The world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers. It collects data from 188 countries and over a thousand sources worldwide with more being added all the time. An API available, more information here: APIs for Scholarly Research

See more Public Policy databases via the University Library Subject Guides

See our guide to Systematic Review Resources and Services for information on literature databases, citation management, and expert help.

Need access to freely available data to analyze or run statistical analyses? Check out a few, common sources as well as a link to many more:

Free Expert Consultations

• Research and Data Services at HSL - Data consultation services and biomedical data and statistics training opportunities. Get expert consultations by appointment on statistical software such as R, python, Stata, SAS, and SPSS
• UVA Research Computing - help with cutting-edge computational resources and issues around optimization, parallelization, workflow, etc.

Software at UVA

• UVA Software Gateway: list of licensed software provided by UVa

Online Learning

• Online courses through UVA's subscription to LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
• E-books through O'Reilly

• Take an online course through Sage Campus on topics like basic research approaches, navigating information, data literacy, and data science skills 

Free Expert Consultations

• Research & Data Services - Research: Expert assistance with biomedical literature search and data discovery, organizing and managing your research project and bibliography, creating presentations and posters, and disseminating and sharing your research.
• Research & Data Services - Data: Data consultation services and biomedical data and statistics training opportunities. Get expert consultations by appointment on statistical software such as R, python, Stata, SAS, and SPSS
• UVA Research Computing - help with cutting-edge computational resources and issues around optimization, parallelization, workflow, etc.

Software at UVA

• UVA Software Gateway: list of licensed software provided by UVA

Online Learning

• Online courses through UVA's subscription to LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
• E-books through O'Reilly
• Take an online course through Sage Campus on topics like basic research approaches, navigating information, data literacy, and data science skills 

• Find books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos through SAGE Research Methods Online  

  • Contains the Little Green Books, the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series that provide short and accessible texts on all kinds of quantitative methods. Providing clear statistical explanations, straightforward empirical examples, and ready-to-use procedures. Volumes address a spectrum of advanced quantitative topics including regression, models, data analysis, experimental design, measurement, survey data, and more.

• Develop and practice real-world skills to transition from campus to the workplace through Sage Skills: Business. Topics include Data Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Organizational Communication, and Professionalism