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This video is a part of the Library Dissertation Toolbox series, focusing on how to find and stay updated on a research topic. Bonita, a user experience and education librarian, provides insights into utilizing library resources, Google, Google Scholar, generative AI, and other online tools to brainstorm, narrow down topics, and keep up with the latest research findings.
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(Beginning of video)
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Introduction and Library Resources
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Okay, great.
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I'm going to share my screen.
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Okay, great.
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So my name is Benita.
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I'm the user experience and Education librarian here at National University.
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And this is Finding and Staying Current on a Research Topic, part of the Library Dissertation Toolbox series.
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So before I get into this topic, there are a couple of things that I want to point out on the homepage here.
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Can everybody see my screen? Okay. Yeah. Thank you.
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So you have the library's hours up at the top here.
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And then if you have any questions about using the library, if a link is broken or you can't find a particular article, then at the bottom right hand corner we have our chat widget symbolized by this message bubble.
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So you could always log into chat and talk live with the librarian on the other end.
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Library Assistance and Appointment Booking
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Now if you have a more in depth question, like you already have established your research question and you're struggling to find specific articles, or you try to find a particular tester measurement, or you just need help with statistics or whatever, then at that point I recommend booking an appointment.
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So if I click on Learn More, it takes me to the appointment page and there are several options here, but for you, you want to select the doctoral research consultation.
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And when you pick a date, then you get all the available times for that date.
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So the further out you schedule your appointment, the more available times there will be.
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As you can see, it gets booked up pretty quickly.
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So for next week there are only three days available.
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Now under I've left the radio button on no preference.
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So that will randomly choose any librarian.
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But if you have already established a relationship with a particular librarian, you could always click on their radio button to select a specific librarian.
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On the right hand side of the librarian's name you have the information button, which tells you their area of specialization.
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So just.
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Interlibrary Loan Services
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And then the last resource that I want to point out is Interlibrary Loan.
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So if you come across an abstract and you're struggling to get the full text, it might be that it's just not available either through the wide open web or through the library database.
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So in that case you could get it through interlibrary loan.
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So there are instructions here of on how to set up your account if you haven't already.
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And you could request full text articles as well as book chapters.
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So definitely take advantage.
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It's a free research.
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Free service. Yes.
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Broad Topic Brainstorming Techniques
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Okay, sorry, I thought that was a question.
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It's a free service, so definitely take advantage of that.
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Okay, so back to our topic, finding and staying current on a research topic.
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So for this I'm going to show you ways on how to brainstorm.
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So you definitely need to start out with a broad topic in mind.
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So we're actually going to start off with Google.
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Now at this point we're not looking for any scholarly articles, we're just trying to get ideas of which direction we want to take our topic in.
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So for example, if I have a broad topic such as career readiness, spell that correctly, this would be too broad to do a peer reviewed article search on because scholarly articles really dig deep into a specific issue.
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So they're not very good for broad topic searching.
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But we can use Google as a tool to figure out what direction we want this broad topic to go.
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So we really want to drill down here now to see what the current issues are.
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I would put career readiness and trends.
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And I'm going to do 2024.
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Using Google for Initial Research
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Typically you want the current year, but we're only 10 days in January so I'm actually going to pick last year.
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Now there are different terms you could use.
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I picked trends, but you could do latest news, recent developments, recent recent research, new topics.
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So you could play around with the search term.
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But the idea here is that we just want to get an idea of what are the issues being discussed under this really broad topic of career readiness.
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So as you can see, everything nowadays is integrated with Gen AI.
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So you get at the very top an AI overview.
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And this is also useful to look at because now it's giving us ideas of the sub issues under career readiness.
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So you have career aligned systems, experiential learning industry partnerships, and then here on the right hand side it tells you where AI got this information from.
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So these are the articles that it pulled this out.
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So if we look at the first one by Kruder, Key initiatives and trends, we can see here what they're discussing under career readiness.
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So it looks like increasing student engagement, streamlining, post secondary preparation, work based learning, etc.
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So what you want to do here is you want to explore a couple of different websites to see what are the issues that are being discussed.
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For example, this one by the Panther group looks pretty interesting.
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What does career readiness look like in 2024?
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So if I click on this and see what they're talking about, okay, technological proficiency here, soft skills, continuous learning and adaptability, network building.
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So we can already see that there are quite a lot of different issues in regards to career readiness.
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And what I would do is I would take a notepad or a notebook and start jotting these ideas down so that you could Keep track of it.
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So at the beginning of a brainstorming session, you don't want to prematurely narrow your topic selections at the beginning, you want to keep it as broad as possible.
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And then later on as you get further down the road with your research issue, you can narrow it down then, but always start out broad.
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Now a way to keep up with the latest news that keeps coming up, because as we know, there's always information that's been uploaded into Google.
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What we want to do is create an alert.
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Creating Alerts with Google
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So I'm going to search here for the Google Alert page.
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Okay. Which is right here.
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Now with Google Alerts you just, when you're searching for an alert or you're creating an alert, you want to keep it very broad.
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So we have our broad topic of career readiness.
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So I definitely want to create an alert on that broad topic.
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So you could create the alert and you could also go to the drop down menu for show options.
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And then you can select how often you want to receive the alert, what sources you want, how many.
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Because I want to keep the search as broad as possible, I am going to change this from only the best results just to all results.
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And then you could create your alert.
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And as you can see, I didn't have to input my email address because I'm already logged into Google.
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But if you're not already logged in or you don't have a Gmail or Google account, it will prompt you to enter an email so it knows where to send the alerts.
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Now here I can add in as many alerts as I want.
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So one of the issues we saw was soft skills.
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So maybe I want to create an alert on soft skills.
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Maybe the other one I want to create is experiential learning.
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So whatever sub issues under career readiness that catches my eye.
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And then when you're done with your topic, you could just go back to the Google Alerts website and click on the trashcan symbol to delete that particular alert.
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Okay, so now let's segue into Google Scholar.
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Utilizing Google Scholar for Research
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Google Scholar, we normally recommend when you already have a concrete topic in mind, but we could also use Google Scholar for brainstorming ideas as well.
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So supposing, let me toggle over to articles here.
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So we're sticking with career readiness and supposing the sub issue we want to explore in further depth.
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Let's see, experiential learning.
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Maybe that's the direction in which we want to take this research topic.
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If I want to look at the more current issues, you have your date limiter on the Left hand side.
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So maybe I just want to see articles since 2024 and that will up the latest articles that are being written on this topic.
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If I want to keep it broad, then I just click on any time and I get all the years of articles published using my keywords that I put in the search bar.
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Now you can also create an alert in Google Scholar.
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So I'd recommend doing that as well.
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It's actually on the left hand side here where you see Create an alert, click on that and then it has my key terms and then all I have to do is click on Create Alert and it'll create that for me.
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And then as with Google, you have the option to cancel when you're done with that search.
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Okay, let's go back to our search results here.
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Now you can also create an alert.
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So there are three ways to create an alert.
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With Google Scholar we created an alert on our keyword searching.
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You can also create an alert to stay current with a particular article.
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So for example, if this article experiential learning helping students to become career ready, if I find that really relevant to my research topic, then what I could do is create an alert on this article.
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So as you can see, this article was published in 2018.
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And then underneath the summary here you have this cited by hyperlink of 103 articles.
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And what this means is that 103 papers have cited to this particular article.
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So supposing I want to know when it becomes 104, a recent publication also cites to this article.
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In order to create create the alert, all I would have to do is click on this cited by hyperlink.
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And then on the left hand side I have again the Create alert option.
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So whenever a new paper is published that cites to this article, if I click on create an alert, it will alert me when that happens.
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Okay, so go back to our list here.
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Now supposing as I browsing through articles on experiential learning and career readiness, I notice that this particular author pops up a lot Ptaichon and I'm not sure if that's how you pronounce it, I'm just guessing, but any author that has an underline, you can also create an alert too.
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So to create an alert for this particular author, all I would have to do is click on this follow button and then I would check the box for all the alerts that I want to get on this particular author.
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So any new articles that he publishes, any new citations to this particular author.
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Author, and also any articles related to the research that he does.
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Employing Generative AI for Brainstorming
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So that's the third way in which you could create an alert to stay up to date on a particular topic in Google Scholar.
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So as well as Google and Google Scholar, you can also use generative AI as a way to generate ideas too.
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So the two most commonly used ones are ChatGPT and the Google one is Gemini AI.
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It will affect what response you get.
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So I'm telling him, or chatgpt who our audience is related, whoops, related to the topic of career readiness.
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Now this is pretty broad, but I could leave it as that.
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So you could pick and choose here and then click on Search to see what ideas are going to be generated by ChatGPT.
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Okay, so now it lists out the different issues under career readiness and different topic ideas.
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Now with ChatGPT, you can continue on with the conversation.
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So supposing as you're looking through the ideas that it's providing and say, you know, maybe I want to go in the direction of career readiness and soft skills.
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So what I could do here is, and it also says, would you like me to expand on any of these ideas or tailor them to a specific field or interest?
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So maybe we're thinking career readiness for nurses or for teachers.
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And then I can also specify the format in which I want to receive the response.
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So I can say, give me a short bullet point.
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Ideas that expand on developing soft skills in career readiness.
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So you could always drill down with ChatGPT and go further and further in until you get to an issue that piques your interest.
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Now, the only thing I would caution you with ChatGPT is that it doesn't give the source of information, so we don't know where this information is coming from.
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It makes a lot of sense, but you always want to verify any information you get from Gen I with a peer reviewed source.
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So we're just using this to generate ideas, but we're not relying on this information as fact.
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We're going to verify, double check and make sure that these topics actually exist when we run a search within the library database.
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So just bear that in mind.
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Also with ChatGPT, you do not want to ask it to provide you with peer reviewed article suggestions because we know that they hallucinate citations and even though they have the correct APA format, it's just fake.
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So don't ask ChatGPT for that.
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You're not going to get anything real.
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So that's how ChatGPT works.
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Exploring SEMrush for Topic Research
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And other people prefer Gemini.
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So let me go over and do that same search in Gemini, Gemini AI.
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So you can search within both or if you have a preference, you could stick with one.
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I do kind of favor chatgpt.
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I tend to use that the most for topic ideas.
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But let's put in the same query in Gemini and see what type of results we get.
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Okay, so as you can see, it's coming up with a lot of the same topics.
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So again we're seeing experiential learning.
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So that seems to be a major subtopic in career readiness.
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Now because I specified that it's a dissertation level topic, it is also suggesting research questions.
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Here we have a new topic idea of mentorship for career readiness and suggested research questions.
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So that's different.
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ChatGPT did not give us any research questions suggestions like Gemini did.
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So you can explore both and have a preference for one or the other.
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Now there are also a lot of other different websites that help generate topics.
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And the one that we use here in the Library is called SEMrush Topic Researcher.
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So this is a topic researcher finder that can help you generate ideas.
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So for our topic here, as you can see, I already did a search on career readiness, so I will pull that up again.
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And as you can see under career readiness, soft skills is pulled up again.
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So you have these tiles that separate out the different sub issues under career readiness.
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So this is just another tool in your tool belt to help you generate ideas.
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And so that is what is available on the Internet.
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Using Library Databases for Topic Ideas
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Okay, so now I'm gonna segue back into the library homepage.
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So there are several resources that we have within the library that you could Also explore to generate topic ideas.
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And the two resources, well, actually more than two.
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I'm going to highlight a couple of databases that we have.
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So in the home page under, in the main blue bar, we have the A to Z database that lists out all our databases that we have.
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And the key ones I'm going to highlight is we're going to start with credo, which is under the seas.
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So CREDO Reference is a reference database and what it does is it pulls together all the encyclopedias for different subject areas.
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So it's a great starting point to get an overview of a really broad topic that's CQ researchers. I don't want that.
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I wanted credo.
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Okay, there's credo.
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So it pulls together from different subject areas and it's a very good synthesis of a really broad topic.
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Now, in credo, they didn't really recognize the term career readiness.
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So this is when you need to brainstorm synonyms.
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And you could also use ChatGPT and Gemini to brainstorm alternative terms as well.
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21:03 |
But what worked here was the term employability.
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So that's what I'm going to put in the search bar.
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Exploring CREDO Reference for Overviews
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So with credo, it works when you use a single idea or concept.
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It doesn't work too well if you enter in multiple concepts.
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So with employability, as you can see on the right hand side, we get a nice mind map.
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So this shows our central topic and then it spokes out to several subtopics that we could further explore.
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21:41 |
Now if the term employability isn't relevant to our career readiness topic, then another term I could use here is, let's say professional development.
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21:56 |
Okay, so now I get a new mind map with professional development in the middle.
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22:01 |
And one thing that really piques my interest is initial professional development.
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22:06 |
Gale Academic 1File for Source Exploration
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So I would think that recent graduates would be under this category of initial professional.
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So if I click on here, it'll update my search results on the left hand side and I'll get articles related to that.
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So for this one, it's talking more about teacher preparation and professional development, continuing professional education.
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Now, CREDO Reference is only one source you could look at for getting topic ideas.
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Another resource we have is called Gale 1 and I will go to Gale.
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It's Gale Academic 1 file.
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So this is our other reference database that you could use to generate topic ideas.
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22:57 |
So I would just type in here career readiness.
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And as you can see, we have different sources of information on this topic.
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So there's a couple of academic journals, magazines, books, news, and then you could just explore down here the article and what issues they discuss under career readiness.
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23:27 |
Now the other resource I would suggest for background information is also exploring the library's ebook collection.
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23:36 |
Library's Ebook Collection
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23:36 |
So under the ease, one of our largest ebook collections is housed under Ebook Central.
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So I would also set up a search here as well.
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And again, I'm just sticking with my search topic, Career readiness.
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23:57 |
And as you can see, there are quite a lot of books on this topic of career readiness.
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24:05 |
So also just browsing through the table of contents for this book can give you ideas of how to further develop your topic into established research question.
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24:18 |
So definitely don't forget to explore the books here.
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Now the last and fourth database that I would also highlight is our dissertation database, which is under the P's.
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24:33 |
So we have two dissertation databases.
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24:37 |
One is just all the dissertations that DCCs for National University.
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24:42 |
And then this is the global one that houses millions of dissertations because it covers the entire world.
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24:50 |
So when generating topic ideas, we want to start and use the global version because that will give us the most results.
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25:00 |
So with this one, because I know it's going to be a lot, I am going to do an advanced search.
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25:06 |
Utilizing Dissertation Database
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So we're going to stick with career readiness and then I'm going to add in a subtopic.
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25:15 |
So let's continue with the experiential learning idea that we saw and I'm going to narrow this down into the abstract so that our results are not too overwhelming.
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25:29 |
Oh, that was too narrow.
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25:31 |
Okay, let me take it back up.
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Search again.
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Okay.
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25:42 |
All right, let me really broaden this out because this was too narrow.
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25:46 |
Okay, let's just keep it to anywhere.
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25:52 |
So this is actually pretty good because what this also identifies is a gap in the literature.
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25:58 |
So when writing your dissertation or thinking of your research question, you want to make sure that you're adding and contributing to the body of literature and developing something unique.
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26:12 |
So if this hasn't been discussed before in a dissertation, then that could be a good topic.
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26:17 |
But as you can see, we have 10 results here on career readiness and experiential learning.
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26:26 |
So this would be a wealth of information that you can explore further.
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26:32 |
And let's go with the second article.
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26:35 |
Even though you're not going to cite to a dissertation, you can borrow from a dissertation's reference list.
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26:43 |
So this particular dissertation has 47 references and they also have the requirement to use peer reviewed articles.
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26:52 |
So this could be a good jumping off point for you as well.
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26:57 |
Another great thing, go back to full text, is that you have this AI research assistant which breaks down the key takeaways from this particular article, but also you can brainstorm research topics based upon this dissertation.
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27:16 |
So if I click on Brainstorm Research Topics is going to give me additional topic ideas based upon this document.
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27:28 |
And then you also have the option to describe important concepts within this dissertation as well.
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27:34 |
So this is a new feature that was introduced in the ProQuest dissertation databases.
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27:41 |
Now if I go to Abstract details, typically go back to preview usually at the bottom of the document.
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27:56 |
They do have similar or other related dissertations, but this particular one does not.
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28:03 |
But some of them will also provide you with related dissertations so you can further go along in exploring that topic.
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28:13 |
So the three databases that I recommend and highlighted to further narrow down your topic is the CREDO reference database, the Gale Academic 1 file, the ebook collection, and then also browsing through the dissertation database to get topic ideas.
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28:36 |
Searching with Navigator
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28:37 |
Now we can also go into our navigator search.
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28:43 |
So this is the library's catalog and navigator search searches through all the databases that we subscribe to.
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28:53 |
So if I go into advanced search, I get my three search boxes.
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28:59 |
Oh wait, I think there's a question here.
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29:04 |
You can use ChatGPT to create research questions, but I would caution you about using it in that regard because that might be considered plagiarism.
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29:18 |
Well, it could be considered plagiarism.
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29:21 |
You want to verify and work closely with your dissertation chair to determine what permissible uses of AI is allowed.
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29:32 |
I know that brainstorming is a permissible use, but this is still a new area of development and the school is still trying trying to figure out the guidelines and policies in regards to using Gen AI.
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29:47 |
So I think for research question I would double check with your dissertation chair.
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29:52 |
They might say no, but.
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29:54 |
So yeah, I'm not exactly sure if they would allow that, but that's a great question.
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30:01 |
Okay, so with our navigator search, I'm going to in the first search box, put in career readiness.
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30:10 |
Now when you're doing an advancement search like this and it suggests synonyms as well.
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30:16 |
So let's add career preparedness as well.
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30:26 |
Okay, so with an advanced search, when you have these three search boxes, the idea is that you want to separate out your key concepts, that each key concept gets its own search box.
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30:41 |
In my second search box, I'm going to put my sub issue that maybe I want to explore further.
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30:47 |
Let's stick with experiential learning so that gets its own search box.
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30:54 |
And then if I wanted to narrow down or filter to a particular demographic like undergraduates or high school, I can use the third search box for that.
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31:05 |
Okay, so let's go ahead and run our search.
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31:10 |
Okay, so we have 539 results, which is great.
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31:16 |
Now if I wanted to save this search, what I would do is click up at these three horizontal dots up at the top right here and click on Save Search so that when I come back to the library homepage, I can get back to this exact same search result.
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31:38 |
Now as as you can see here, you could also create an alert as well so that anytime a new article, book or whatever source of information is uploaded that matches my search terms, I will get notified.
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31:55 |
Now, within the Navigator search platform, you can also save individual articles that you want to come back to as well.
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32:05 |
So if I click here on this bookmark logo, it has saved now this first article.
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32:12 |
And when I want to get back to see the articles that I've saved, I would look on the left hand side under my dashboard and here are all my saved articles.
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32:26 |
And you can see that it is here saved under records.
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32:30 |
Now supposing I am exploring several different research topics and you want to organize your research topics, then you can go to this option called Projects.
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32:42 |
So Projects is where you could create a custom folder.
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32:46 |
So if I click on this plus sign here to create a new project, I could say, okay, I'm going to call this project or folder Career Readiness.
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32:58 |
And all the articles I save are going to be under this project of Career Readiness.
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33:05 |
So now if I go back to my saved articles here, and this was the one I just saved, Competency articulation.
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33:14 |
I go to that three dots which is the tools and right click on this, I can add it now to a project because now I've created that custom project and here it is under here Career Readiness.
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33:29 |
So now I can drop in my articles under Career Readiness.
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33:34 |
So that's one way in which you can organize your research using the Navigator search tool.
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33:42 |
And then you also have your alerts here.
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33:45 |
So if I click on alert, it'll show me all my saved alerts here.
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33:50 |
You could do a journal alert or you could do a search alert.
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33:54 |
So if I go back to my search here of Career readiness, so what I would do is go to my action and create an alert and I can give it an alert name.
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34:10 |
So let's just say Career Readiness, Search query.
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34:18 |
I could drop in a description and I can also pick how often I want to receive an alert on any information that matches that search query and pop in your email address.
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34:31 |
It'll have to be your student email address.
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And now I've created that Alert.
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34:37 |
So if I wanted to see my alert again, it would be under my dashboard and click on the alert option and it would be under Search Alerts.
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34:50 |
And there is that search query that I just created an alert for.
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34:55 |
Now another new feature that we have in Navigator Search that is also a great way to help with drilling down on a topic is this concept map.
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35:07 |
Concept Mapping in Navigator Search
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35:07 |
So if I click on concept map, what I could do here is supposing that sub issue that we want to stick with is experiential learning and click on searching here so you get this grid format.
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35:27 |
But what I want to do is go to the map format.
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35:31 |
So it's kind of similar to the mind map that we saw in credo.
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35:35 |
And what it does is it gives me different ideas of further subdividing this topic of experiential learning.
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35:43 |
So now we're three levels down in drilling on our research topics.
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35:49 |
So from career readiness to experiential learning and then all of these different issues under experiential learning.
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35:58 |
So if I wanted to, I could click on learning environment and then explore this concept further or I can add this as an additional term in my search results and get articles that drill down specifically into learning environment.
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36:25 |
Okay, go back here, see full results.
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36:34 |
And now I'm getting the results of learning environment.
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But as you can see it's given us over 600,000.
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So I'd have to add back in my other search terms that I had before on career readiness.
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So that is how you would use Navigator search.
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Now there are also a couple of guides that we have on narrowing down your topic.
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Finding Research Guides and Alerts
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So if I go back to the home page and I click on under research process, if you click on learn more there is finding a research topic guide.
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So under here it gives you additional ideas for brainstorming and narrowing down your topic.
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And there is a an option here how to narrow a topic.
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Then the other page to look at here is also finding similar sources.
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So I showed you how to create an alert on Google and Google Scholar and also creating an alert in Navigator Search.
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But you can also select specific databases and there's a page here called Database Alerts and RSS Feeds where you can where it tells you which databases you could create an alert.
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So for example, if you find that you're using Sage Journals a lot, then you can create a database alert for Sage Journals and be notified when articles appear in Sage Journals.
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So setting up alerts is a way to stay current because anytime any new information is uploaded that matches your search terms, you would be notified by that alert.
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So the alert is a way to stay up to date and current on a particular search term and topic.
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Conclusion and Webinar Feedback
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So does anybody have any questions for me?
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That pretty much concludes the webinar.
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Thank you very much for meeting with us today. You are.
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You are very welcome.
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But actually, before I let you both go, I would like you to give your rating on this webinar.
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So if you can open up a new page or you could do this on your phone.
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But if you go to this site, menti.com and then enter in this number code, which is 1941, 6000, 306, it will take you to the feedback form.
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So let me know when you're both in there.
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Are you in?
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I'm trying to do this without cutting you off. Oh.
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Oh, I see.
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Do you have your phone with you?
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Yes. You could do it on your phone if you want.
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Yeah, yeah, that's. Yeah.
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If you want to go into the Internet.
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And then it's just mentee.com.
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yeah. M e n t I dot com.
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And then the number code is 1941.
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6306.
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So has everybody seen this page? Yes. Nice.
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Okay, great.
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Okay, so I'm gonna slip on over to the next slide over and. Oh, thank you.
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You already put in your rating. Perfect.
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Thank you very much.
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And then was there any feedback, questions or comments that anybody wanted to share?
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Any. Any questions at all?
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We're able to get to the rating page. Oh, let's see.
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Can I skip to the rating page?
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I wonder if should pop up.
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Oh, it. It's only asking me to give you scores.
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To give me scores.
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Mentor meter.
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Oh, are you.
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Were you able to enter this code up here?
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I could just put 10 on everything.
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Oh, well, that sounds good to me.
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Let me go back here.
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Okay, here we go.
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Satisfied?
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All right, perfect. Okay. And then.
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Yeah, the last slide was any questions or comments that you have?
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So any.
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Anybody have any questions or comments?
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No questions. No.
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All right, well, perfect.
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Would you both.
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Do you both want me to send you the recording of this webinar?
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Yes, I would.
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However, I'll go over the recording with the notes I took to ensure I took everything in. Okay, great.
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Well, I have your.
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Okay, wonderful.
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I have your email.
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So I will email you both the recording and actually, I'm going to stop record.
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