Empowering Research Through Responsible AI on ScienceDirect
Sponsored by Elsevier
Recorded on 03/25/2025Posted in Scholarly Communication and Research, Library Technology and IT
Learn about AI’s research applications and new developments in ScienceDirect.
Access the presentation slides.
Webinar Resources:
- ScienceDirect AI Fact Sheet
- ScienceDirect AI Contact Us
- ACRL Library Futures Forum – Gen AI for Research and Discovery: Navigating opportunities and challenges (April 2, 2025)
Summary:
Join this webinar to learn about Generative AI (GenAI) developments on ScienceDirect and meet the team enabling researchers to explore, compare, and uncover trusted evidence from deep within peer-reviewed literature. This webinar is ideal for library staff and anyone interested in the application of GenAI in full text search and discovery. The ScienceDirect ambition is to make knowledge discovery more efficient and rewarding for researchers, faculty, and librarians.
Speakers:

Judson Dunham
Senior Director, Product ManagementElsevierJudson Dunham is the Senior Director of Product Management at Elsevier. Jud leads a team of product managers responsible for new product development on ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s flagship full text discovery and reading platform. He has been in product management at Elsevier for over 15 years, working in and around several of Elsevier’s research products including ScienceDirect, Scopus and Mendeley. During that time he has led development of several new products at the nexus of research content, workflow and technology, and is currently heading up an initiative building a suite of next generation GenAI research tools.

Emily Singley
Vice President, North American Library RelationsElsevierEmily Singley is the Vice President, North American Library Relations at Elsevier. Previously she served as Associate University Librarian for Technology and Technical Services at Boston College, where her management portfolio included scholarly communication, metadata, technology, digitization, and acquisitions. Prior to that Emily held library technology roles at Harvard University, Southern New Hampshire University, and Curry College.
