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Understanding Generative AI-mediated User Engagement with Academic Library Resources
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Study found that ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini drive significant traffic to academic library resources, especially open-access theses and dissertations with structured metadata.
- Why it matters
- Library technologists and digital strategists should care when planning discovery systems and deciding how to optimize institutional repositories for AI-driven discovery.
- Watch out
- Analysis covers only August 2023 to October 2025, so patterns may shift as AI systems evolve and library strategies adapt to this emerging discovery pathway.
- retrieval
- gpt
- gemini
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