>> For this fourth single lab,
we're going to talk about tools that
you can use to be a more effective researcher.
One tool that is really useful and
helps you be more efficient is a citation management software.
I'm going to talk about three different kinds of citation management software.
But before we get there, I want to show you how you download the metadata
on articles and books that you're finding so that
then you can use the citation management software.
This is an article that I found in our catalog in USEARCH,
and I looked at the article,
and I read the abstract and this looks really good.
It's related to interdisciplinary work.
I am going to do an EndNote to basic download.
When I click that,
it will automatically send over the information on that article to my EndNote,
which is already opened and I'll show you that in a minute.
Another way to do that is,
if you're in a database that doesn't have a direct export to EndNote,
you can do, "Cite this item," and you have other options down here.
This RIS file is a generic format and it
works really well with Zotero and I have
a Zotero connector installed in my browser.
It's saying, "you want to put this into Zotero," and then I
can click "Boundary Crossing" and
now it's saving it to my Boundary Crossing folder.
That's another way through a journal.
Not all the journals have direct exports,
some of them do, so I'm just showing you a few examples.
Another way to do it is through Google Scholar,
anytime I'm somewhere and I can't find an export
in a specific database or journal,
I copy the title into Google Scholar,
and in Google Scholar you can set up.
If I do search results,
I can set up for an EndNote bibliography manager here,
and when I save that,
now I get import into EndNote here.
I can click that.
This still wants to do Zotero,
but that's fine, I can go to Zotero.
I'm saying, "Okay, I want that to be in my folder."
Now, EndNote looks like this and they all look the same.
I'll show you all three of them.
When you put the metadata in here,
this is the free version EndNote basic,
it's done through your web browser.
It does not save your PDFs.
You do have to link sometimes to go back to the record or go to the URL.
But then when you want to format,
you say, "Format bibliography."
I'm going to say I want this Boundary Crossing folder and I
want it in APA 7th and there's other formats you can select.
I want it in rich text,
which is like a Word doc and I'm going to preview it.
This is how fast it is to format 124 citations.
But again, disclaimer, this is not correct.
These capital titles are not correct so you'll have to do some editing.
But then I can say select all,
copy, and paste it into my Word doc.
There's also a site as you write that works directly in Word.
Zotero is really awesome because it saves the PDF along with your metadata.
Here's the abstract, the article,
all the information about that article,
and then one thing that you can do,
is you can download articles and drag them into here,
and it will automatically create this data if it can.
For example, if I pull this article into here,
let me get back to here and I pulled this into here.
It will automatically create that information.
I just did the same one twice,
so I have it in there twice. I can delete it.
But you'll see that it added the abstract,
the information about the authors,
all of that. It's in here now.
The third product is called Mendeley and I'm not going to open it.
I can't remember my password right now and I thought I was already logged in.
But I guess I'm not.
I won't show you that one, but that one intersects with the science databases,
Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed really well.
On the strategy number four page,
you'll see that there are links to tutorials information,
the library guides will connect you with
the librarian that is the expert on each of these tools.
Rebecca is on Zotero,
Shane is on Mendeley,
and Lorelai is on EndNote.
Another tool you might want to check out is Ubox and Ubox is like Dropbox,
but you actually have a terabyte of cloud storage space.
You log in with your unit and password,
so no need to have another password and
login and it is FERPA and HIPAA compliance.
This is what it looks like.
You just set up folders.
You put your PDFs in there.
You can set subfolders.
You can add bookmarks,
you can do little note-taking and
it really helps you stay organized when you're downloading PDFs.
If you're not using Zotero,
you can use this to store your PDFs.
Another tool, the university has its own Google Drive site,
it's called gcloud, gcloud.utah.edu.
You log in with your unit and password and it sets up a Google e-mail
with youneed@youmail.google, I think.gmail.com.
It will set up, it'll automatically do that for you.
You can collaborate with people on
campus without having to worry about what everybody's
Gmail address is because you just
look them up by their name and it finds them.
This is another great tool that I use called
Trello and these four things are called lists.
I use this for my tasks and to get organized.
So you see this is from my logistics for my RPT process.
In 2011 to 2016,
I did my tenure review, got tenure, yay.
These were all the tasks that I had,
that I needed to complete before I got to tenure.
Now I'm on my five-year review,
2017 to 2021 and I have to do,
a doing, and a done column.
Then I move my tasks from
one column to the other and what I like about this is I
get to see all this stuff accrue in my done column.
For example, this one I finished so I'm just going
to drag that down here to the bottom of my list of done.
Done, it's in my done list,
one less thing to do.
It's a great tool if you're into that type of project management.
Concept mapping is a great tool.
I use Cmap that lets me visually look at my topic.
Boundary crossing is in the middle and then I have
my subtopics, organizational spanning,
interdisciplinary, third space, transitions,
identity, and social formation.
As I find topics when I'm doing my research,
I added them to my map,
and then I added sub-topics to my map.
This is a great way to visualize what you're doing.
I'm doing one right now for a website that I'm working on.
I can click here and say,
"I want to do R programming."
If I could just spell it right,
and then I could say,
"I want to connect this one to this one."
These are programming tools.
Then I could put R and I could put Python and I could create my map.
You can export it out as a PNG file and keep a record of it.
It's a really cool tool.
This is the strategy number four and these are
all about building up and developing your toolbox to do research.
These are all the links to the citation management tools,
which is the most popular tool that most people
use to help them be more efficient in research.
There's Ubox links and link to the drive and Office 365,
the U also has their own version of that.
Then if you're doing qualitative research,
there are three links here to Artificial Intelligence trends transcript.
A way to do your transcripts cheaper through artificial intelligence.
So instead of sending it all for two dollars
a minute to have your interviews or focus groups transcribed,
these are a lot cheaper,
like $0.25 a minute to have a computer do that transcription for you.
Those are just some of the tools that might
help you be a more efficient researcher.
Oh, last one, Evernote.
I use Evernote and Evernote is a research journal for me.
These are all keywords and phrases that I copy and
paste in here as I'm going through and doing my research.
That was the last one I forgot.
Onto strategy five.