This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar – Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.
When
Tuesday, December 15, 2026
From 13:00 GMT to 14:00 GMT
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Where
Online
United Kingdom
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About the Event
Generative AI exploded into mainstream use in early 2025, and has already changed how researchers and students find, evaluate and engage with information. Usage of many primary sources has dropped as users find their information needs met without clicking through to library and publisher platforms. But AI tools and overviews draw on a much wider range of content, not all of which is trustworthy. What do we need to do to ensure that users still find authoritative information? This webinar will share findings and recommendations from the ‘Taming the Crocodile’ project, which has completed surveys of users and librarians to understand awareness, usage and perceptions of AI in information seeking – as well as reviewing what website owners within and beyond the scholarly communications are doing to rise to these new challenges.
Disclaimer: As part of our mission to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas, UKSG hosts discussions on a wide range of topics affecting scholarly communication. The views and opinions expressed by speakers in this session are their own and do not necessarily represent the official position of UKSG.
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Speakers
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Charlie Rapple
Co-founder and research lead Kudos
Charlie Rapple is co-founder of Kudos, which works with researchers, universities and publishers to ensure research is more widely found, understood, used and cited. With a background in scholarly publishing technology and marketing, she is passionate about ensuring research is more effectively communicated. She is currently Past Chair of UKSG, having previously served as Vice Chair, Treasurer, Chair of the Marketing Subcommittee, and co-founder of KBART. She is a member of the Editorial Board for UKSG Insights, a blogger in the Scholarly Kitchen and a Fellow of the UN’s SDG Publishers Compact. Charlie has a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Bristol, and a postgraduate MDip from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Learning outcomes
- Learn how and why usage is being fragmented and displaced by AI
- Understand which tools users are turning to for different types of information need
- Benchmark themselves against other organizations’ experiences and actions in relation to AI discovery
- Take away a checklist of actions for testing, tracking and maximizing AI discoverability
Subject level and previous knowledge required
Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.
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This is a free webinar and is open to members and non-members of UKSG alike – Please note that advance registration is required.
Unable to attend? Register anyway and we will send you a link to a recording of the webinar after the event. If you have already registered and are subsequently unable to attend, please do not cancel your registration – only active registrations will receive the recording in a follow-up e-mail.
Accessibility
UKSG wants to provide the best possible experience for all our delegates, making presentations as accessible and inclusive as possible. Our intention were possible is to strongly encourage our speakers to provide auto generated closed captioning for both live and recorded events as well as to make sure their slides are as easy as possible for all people to read. In addition we can provide auto generated transcripts post event for each of the recorded sessions.
If you have particular accessibility needs or questions about this webinar, we welcome you to contact Samira Sotomayor.
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Emma Thompson, Glasgow Caledonian University
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