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Alternate Government/ Grey Literature Sources
UPDATE: As of January 20, 2025, many government agencies have removed reports, documents, data sets, and other non-academic/grey literature sources from their web sites due to executive orders from the current administration.
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EuropePMCEuropean Bioinformatics Institute includes PubMed Central along with repository of intergovenmental funded research.
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Government Information Data RescueResource List produced by American University. Includes CDC, climate change, environmental justice, etc.
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Data Rescue TrackerPenn State University tracking who is archiving important government data websites
AI and ChatGPT
Marks M, Haupt CE. AI Chatbots, Health Privacy, and Challenges to HIPAA Compliance. JAMA. 2023 Jul 25;330(4):309-310.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.9458. PMID:37410450.
“We conclude that chatbots cannot comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in any meaningful way despite industry assurances.”
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LLM (Chat GPT) do not search the scholarly literature, check the sources to verify they exist. It does not necessarily have access to the full text articles from the library.
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LLM models work to provide an answer to your question, not to be accurate, you are responsible for vetting all information
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Some publishers do not legally allow content to be uploaded into an LLM even to summarize content for you
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Anything obtained from Ebsco may not be legally uploaded into an AI or LLM