Go Broad Strategy 1

>> 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.