>> For this first think-aloud,
I'm going to go through the process of thinking broad.
That is the first strategy, to go broad.
This is a strategy that you'll use at the beginning of
your research when you're really not
sure of exactly what topic you want to look at,
or you're trying to find something that's more interesting to you.
There are some tools that you can use that will give
you a really broad view of the literature
so that you can see
the scholarly conversation that's happening around your topic.
For this strategy, I recommend that there's two tools that you use.
One is the library homepage you search,
which is this large search field on the homepage.
The other one is Google Scholar.
Let's go back here to Google Scholar.
Google Scholar can be connected to
the library website so that you can go back and forth between the two.
This is really helpful because sometimes you can find things in
Google Scholar that aren't available in the library and vice versa.
Before you start anything,
we want to go to the library homepage and we want to click on "Log in" in
the top right corner and make sure that we have
access granted so that we can download full-text PDFs.
If you click on "Off-campus access"
and you don't get this green granted button,
you'll have to login with your unit and
password so that you'll be able to download full-text articles.
Once you do that, we're going to go to Google Scholar and we're going
to set up Google Scholar to connect to the library catalog.
I'm going to click on this menu here,
I am in Chrome, so I have a menu.
If you're in Firefox,
you might just have this wheel up there and you'll click on that.
We're going to Settings and then you're going to go to
Library links and put in University of Utah.
You're going to search the name and all the Utah universities will pop up.
I'm going to check the box for
University of Utah - Get It @ UU and I'm going to save that.
Now I'm all set so that anything I find here,
if it says we have it at the U,
then I can go over to the U and download the PDF.
My topic is around the community of what is called third space professionals.
In higher education, there's a group of people that are not associated
with disciplines like economics and psychology and math.
Instead, they work at the university in
the borders or the boundaries around the disciplines.
That's why it's called third space.
These are people like IT people,
instructional designers, advisors, and librarians like me.
I work with people in a lot of different disciplines.
My topic, I'm going to put in some keywords that I'm going to start a search.
This is the hardest part of your search because you're just
kind of trial and error your keywords.
I made a little statement about what I was
going to research and I'm going to pull some words from
that statement which are language because I want to know the language
around this community of third space Professionals.
I'm going to use the word practice
because I want to know what they say they do,
what is their practice and I'm going to say third space professionals,
which is the community that I am researching.
I'm just going to do professional without the s.
>> I find three million results, that's a lot.
I don't have time to go through three million results.
I'm going to try to narrow it down and try to get closer to my topic.
I'm going to click on custom range and I'm going
to narrow to the last 10 years.
This is a pretty new topic.
I don't need to go back.
I'm down to 900,000.
Another strategy to narrow down your results,
is to use not only the ANDs.
ANDs often broaden. Your search,
I'm going to use quotation marks around the word "Third Space Professional".
This is an actual phrase that is in the literature,
so if I put quotation marks around it,
it will find that phrase,
not the individual words.
I'm going to search that and that brings me down to 68.
Well, that was drastic.
From 900,000 down to 68.
But let's take a look what we found.
What I do in Google Scholar is I scan,
I look for new keywords,
like identities, might be a keyword,
I could say professional identities and third space,
I look keywords, I look at the authors.
I see here C Whitchurch,
C Whitchurch, C Whitchurch.
She's occurring quite a bit.
This is Celia, actually,
it's Whitchurch and she is from
the UK and she's one of the primary authors on this topic.
I would expect to see a lot of her work here in Google scholar.
She's also from the UK.
You'll see this one,
optimizing the potential of Third Space Professionals is
a document that's posted on a university website in the UK.
We do not have a copy of this in the library,
but I can click here and download this from the UK.
This one up here is available on the author's site,
but also available through the UU.
If I click on "Get It @UU",
it'll take me into the library space.
You see U Libraries,
and then you see all of the databases that contain this article.
I'm just going to click on the first one.
When I get to the abstract page,
I'm going to look at the abstract.
Is this really an article that I want to download?
I don't want to waste time downloading a ton
of articles if I'm not going to be able to use them or read them.
I want to look at the abstract and see if this is a good article.
I can pick up new words there as well.
Look at these keywords,
professional learning, professional identity.
These could also be new keywords.
I keep a little journal of my keywords when I'm doing
this exploring of the literature space,
so that I can mix and match those keywords and try to find the best articles.
I'm going to download this one because this looks like a good one to me.
Then I'm going to go back to
this U Library window and go back to Google Scholar.
Another thing that Google Scholar has is the cited bys.
This book by Celia was cited 270 times.
If I click on that,
I see all 270 people that cited that book.
Sometimes this is really helpful when
you're looking for more recent literature.
Like this book was written in 2012, which is pretty new.
Let's say it was written like in 2000,
you could click the cited bys and see
more recent literature that's been cited since that book was published.
>> Also have quotation marks here,
which will show you the citation in MLA,
or APA , or Chicago, or Harvard,
or Vancouver and this will give you a good start on your citation.
But a disclaimer, they are not always correct.
When you click these little shortcuts to get
citations from databases or in Google Scholar,
but it is a great start to your citation.
The pieces will be there, you might just have to do some editing.
So this is a great way to start and
then maybe I want to play around with
keywords some more because I only have 68 here.
So I'm going to do Third Space separately because I see
like Third Space Professionals, Third Space Practice.
I see some other ways that I might be able to do this.
I'm going to Add And,
and I'm going to say Professional Identity.
I'm going to put Third space and
Professional Identity in quotation marks because they're phrases,
and I'm up to 1,500.
This is much closer to what I'm interested in
researching because I'm looking at the identity
of Third Space Professionals and also in how they
function in the boundaries between the disciplines as well as the fringes.
So this looks like a much closer search to what I'm looking for.
You can click up in here in Google Scholar and I could copy
this Search and I can put it into a Word File or a Box Folder.
We'll get to that later in another strategy,
and then I can come back to this Search.
It will save not only these 1,500
results but it will save these keywords for me.
I'm going to copy the keywords and I'm going to go to the Library Homepage,
and I'm going to put that in here and see what I find.
You're not going to find as many as that on Google Scholar,
which is an international wide database.
These are resources that the library owns.
We own a lot, we own a few million books and we do own
a lot of databases that you can get full text articles from.
But it's not as broad as
Google Scholar that's why I like to use the both of them together.
So we have some articles,
we have a dissertation,
we'll get to that in another one of the strategies.
Because dissertations are not scholarly resources that you can site.
But they are great. They're great resources that
you can mine and that's strategy number three.
If this is not exactly what you're looking for,
then you could get rid of your quotation marks.
Maybe broaden it up a little bit then,
and see how that would change your search.
So this first strategy is about exploring.
You see, we went to a lot more resources.
Now we have 1,500 books as well.
You need to play around with your keywords to see what you're finding,
and now we are ready to go on to strategy number two.