It’s proven that AI has made an impact on the world and augmented human capabilities in significant ways. Education and research are not odd to this. Many useful web-based intelligence tools have been developed to assist with the research activities. Awareness of these tools leads to their use and using these tools will help the researchers to make proper decisions in time on their research work and it will enhance the quality of research. A pre-post survey was conducted with an open-ended questionnaire, among the participants who took part in the Two Days National Workshop on Scholarly Writing: Strategies and Techniques organized by the Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University to get valid inputs from the participant to modify the contents of the session ‘research literacy’. The study evidenced the lack of awareness of the use of AI tools/web intelligence tools in research. Based on the study pre-study results, the added demonstration along with the lecture and discussion method and the post-study results indicated the session was very useful and it the concepts covered in the session enhanced the knowledge about the concepts among the participants.

AI Tools, Research Tools, pre-post study, scholars’ perception