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Strategy 4 Building a Research Toolbox

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    >> For this fourth single lab,
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    we're going to talk about tools that
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    you can use to be a more
    effective researcher.
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    One tool that is really useful and
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    helps you be more efficient is
    a citation management software.
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    I'm going to talk about three different
    kinds of citation management software.
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    But before we get there, I want to
    show you how you download the metadata
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    on articles and books that
    you're finding so that
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    then you can use the citation
    management software.
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    This is an article that I found
    in our catalog in USEARCH,
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    and I looked at the article,
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    and I read the abstract and
    this looks really good.
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    It's related to interdisciplinary work.
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    I am going to do an
    EndNote to basic download.
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    When I click that,
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    it will automatically send over the
    information on that article to my EndNote,
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    which is already opened and
    I'll show you that in a minute.
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    Another way to do that is,
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    if you're in a database that doesn't
    have a direct export to EndNote,
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    you can do, "Cite this item," and
    you have other options down here.
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    This RIS file is a generic format and it
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    works really well with Zotero and I have
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    a Zotero connector installed in my browser.
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    It's saying, "you want to put
    this into Zotero," and then I
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    can click "Boundary Crossing" and
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    now it's saving it to my
    Boundary Crossing folder.
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    That's another way through a journal.
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    Not all the journals have direct exports,
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    some of them do, so I'm just
    showing you a few examples.
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    Another way to do it is
    through Google Scholar,
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    anytime I'm somewhere and
    I can't find an export
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    in a specific database or journal,
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    I copy the title into Google Scholar,
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    and in Google Scholar you can set up.
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    If I do search results,
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    I can set up for an EndNote
    bibliography manager here,
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    and when I save that,
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    now I get import into EndNote here.
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    I can click that.
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    This still wants to do Zotero,
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    but that's fine, I can go to Zotero.
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    I'm saying, "Okay, I want
    that to be in my folder."
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    Now, EndNote looks like this
    and they all look the same.
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    I'll show you all three of them.
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    When you put the metadata in here,
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    this is the free version EndNote basic,
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    it's done through your web browser.
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    It does not save your PDFs.
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    You do have to link sometimes to go
    back to the record or go to the URL.
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    But then when you want to format,
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    you say, "Format bibliography."
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    I'm going to say I want this
    Boundary Crossing folder and I
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    want it in APA 7th and there's
    other formats you can select.
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    I want it in rich text,
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    which is like a Word doc and
    I'm going to preview it.
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    This is how fast it is
    to format 124 citations.
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    But again, disclaimer, this is not correct.
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    These capital titles are not correct
    so you'll have to do some editing.
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    But then I can say select all,
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    copy, and paste it into my Word doc.
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    There's also a site as you write
    that works directly in Word.
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    Zotero is really awesome because it
    saves the PDF along with your metadata.
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    Here's the abstract, the article,
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    all the information about that article,
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    and then one thing that you can do,
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    is you can download articles
    and drag them into here,
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    and it will automatically
    create this data if it can.
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    For example, if I pull
    this article into here,
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    let me get back to here and
    I pulled this into here.
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    It will automatically
    create that information.
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    I just did the same one twice,
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    so I have it in there
    twice. I can delete it.
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    But you'll see that it added the abstract,
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    the information about the authors,
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    all of that. It's in here now.
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    The third product is called Mendeley
    and I'm not going to open it.
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    I can't remember my password right now
    and I thought I was already logged in.
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    But I guess I'm not.
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    I won't show you that one, but that one
    intersects with the science databases,
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    Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed really well.
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    On the strategy number four page,
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    you'll see that there are links
    to tutorials information,
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    the library guides will connect you with
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    the librarian that is the
    expert on each of these tools.
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    Rebecca is on Zotero,
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    Shane is on Mendeley,
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    and Lorelai is on EndNote.
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    Another tool you might want to check
    out is Ubox and Ubox is like Dropbox,
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    but you actually have a terabyte
    of cloud storage space.
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    You log in with your unit and password,
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    so no need to have another password and
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    login and it is FERPA and HIPAA compliance.
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    This is what it looks like.
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    You just set up folders.
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    You put your PDFs in there.
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    You can set subfolders.
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    You can add bookmarks,
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    you can do little note-taking and
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    it really helps you stay organized
    when you're downloading PDFs.
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    If you're not using Zotero,
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    you can use this to store your PDFs.
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    Another tool, the university
    has its own Google Drive site,
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    it's called gcloud, gcloud.utah.edu.
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    You log in with your unit and password
    and it sets up a Google e-mail
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    with youneed@youmail.google,
    I think.gmail.com.
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    It will set up, it'll
    automatically do that for you.
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    You can collaborate with people on
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    campus without having to
    worry about what everybody's
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    Gmail address is because you just
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    look them up by their
    name and it finds them.
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    This is another great
    tool that I use called
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    Trello and these four
    things are called lists.
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    I use this for my tasks
    and to get organized.
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    So you see this is from my
    logistics for my RPT process.
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    In 2011 to 2016,
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    I did my tenure review, got tenure, yay.
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    These were all the tasks that I had,
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    that I needed to complete
    before I got to tenure.
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    Now I'm on my five-year review,
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    2017 to 2021 and I have to do,
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    a doing, and a done column.
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    Then I move my tasks from
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    one column to the other and
    what I like about this is I
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    get to see all this stuff
    accrue in my done column.
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    For example, this one I
    finished so I'm just going
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    to drag that down here to the
    bottom of my list of done.
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    Done, it's in my done list,
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    one less thing to do.
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    It's a great tool if you're into
    that type of project management.
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    Concept mapping is a great tool.
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    I use Cmap that lets me
    visually look at my topic.
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    Boundary crossing is in
    the middle and then I have
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    my subtopics, organizational spanning,
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    interdisciplinary, third
    space, transitions,
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    identity, and social formation.
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    As I find topics when
    I'm doing my research,
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    I added them to my map,
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    and then I added sub-topics to my map.
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    This is a great way to
    visualize what you're doing.
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    I'm doing one right now for a
    website that I'm working on.
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    I can click here and say,
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    "I want to do R programming."
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    If I could just spell it right,
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    and then I could say,
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    "I want to connect this one to this one."
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    These are programming tools.
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    Then I could put R and I could put
    Python and I could create my map.
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    You can export it out as a PNG
    file and keep a record of it.
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    It's a really cool tool.
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    This is the strategy
    number four and these are
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    all about building up and developing
    your toolbox to do research.
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    These are all the links to the
    citation management tools,
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    which is the most popular
    tool that most people
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    use to help them be more
    efficient in research.
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    There's Ubox links and link
    to the drive and Office 365,
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    the U also has their own version of that.
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    Then if you're doing qualitative research,
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    there are three links here to Artificial
    Intelligence trends transcript.
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    A way to do your transcripts cheaper
    through artificial intelligence.
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    So instead of sending
    it all for two dollars
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    a minute to have your interviews
    or focus groups transcribed,
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    these are a lot cheaper,
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    like $0.25 a minute to have a computer
    do that transcription for you.
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    Those are just some of the tools that might
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    help you be a more efficient researcher.
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    Oh, last one, Evernote.
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    I use Evernote and Evernote
    is a research journal for me.
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    These are all keywords and
    phrases that I copy and
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    paste in here as I'm going
    through and doing my research.
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    That was the last one I forgot.
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    Onto strategy five.
Title:
Strategy 4 Building a Research Toolbox
Video Language:
English
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