Misinformation and disinformation are rampant on social media, eroding confidence and making it difficult to tell fact from fiction. Spam, clickbait, and malicious websites masquerade as legitimate news sources. AI-generated content and the commodification of search engines like Google create an internet full of hallucinations and half-truths. To further complicate information seeking, recent studies suggest that young people are increasingly using ChatGPT in place of a search engine.

Where can people turn for objective information? According to recent studies, libraries rank higher than Congress, the Supreme Court, and the police when it comes to public trust. Credible information is more critical now than ever, but library resources are competing with easy-to-use but unreliable sources.

Learn how open access can be the key to leveling the information playing field, saving your library money, and providing high quality, peer reviewed resources with robust discovery and one-click access; join us for this free, 30-minute webinar.

Together, we will:

• Explore how students and researchers are already using AI and social media to find information
• Look at open access trends and the role OA plays in academic publishing
• Discuss how CloudSource—the OA-forward discovery platform from SirsiDynix—can provide access to 65M+ open access and open educational resources with one click and no authentication required

Register today.