18:06:49 Welcome to demystifying research research for writers. 18:06:56 I'm Eileen Gatti, and I am the director of the Elliott D. 18:07:02 Pratt Library, which is located on the Plainfield, Vermont campus, but it is also a library that has resources and services available to you, no matter where you are. 18:07:14 So I'm gonna get into a little bit of that, you know. 18:07:16 Just sort of some general information about the library, although you've already gotten that in the orientation, but at we're going to talk primarily about sort of getting started when you're actually researching something using library databases and resources. 18:07:32 And a little bit of search strategy. How it works to use the discovery tool and why you might look at some individual databases as well. 18:07:40 And then we are gonna spend some time in Zotero, which is a citation and resource management tool that is pretty exciting takes a little bit of getting used to, but once you do I think you'll find it really helpful for all of your research. 18:07:56 Needs, okay. So to begin with, I just want to talk a little bit about the research process and what I like to call research, which is sort of what happens in the brainstorming stage, because when you're brainstorming about really anything that you're researching in addition to just sort of thinking about what 18:08:15 you already know about a topic, or about just sort of an area of inquiry that you want to pursue. 18:08:24 You're also doing a lot of things that we normally do every day, which is kind of googling things or looking in something like we're looking in something like Wikipedia, you know, just to give you a general background information. 18:08:35 And that is fine you know, before you dive into the library, because it really helps you to understand the scope of your of the subject. 18:08:42 You're looking at, maybe sort of get a little bit of background and history, and it also can help you tap into some other resources that might exist that may be worth just sort of discovering in that way.

18:08:57 So it's a really good just sort of preliminary research thing, as your brainstorming. 18:09:01 There's also something to the the idea of mind mapping or concept mapping, which is a really fun way to visually organize the concepts that you're exploring to just see the connections between these ideas and this is going to help you gather keywords. 18:09:19 And I'm going to talk a little bit more about what I mean by keywords. 18:09:22 To begin with. So when you are searching for anything and said, I'm gonna focus on literary topics here. 18:09:30 Obviously you might be looking at this specific genres or literary movements, or maybe you are starting with an author or a list of authors. 18:09:42 Maybe folks that you want to read about and come compare or do some literary criticism. 18:09:47 You know. Anytime you're starting with all of these things. 18:09:50 This is basically the beginning of your keywords for the library database, because in a library database what you don't wanna do is put in a full sentence or question the way you might when you're putting something into Google so instead you need to sort of jot 18:10:06 down terminology, or synonyms that come to mind, and any full questions or sentences you break them down into the essential words and phrases, and these become your search terms or keywords. 18:10:18 So here are a couple of possible search strings, and this is a little bit more complicated than you might even normally need to do. 18:10:26 And you're average library search. But I think it's good to help illustrate the concept. 18:10:31 So, for example, social movements and poetry are songs and race or ethnicity. 18:10:37 In this sort of what I call a search string. What I'm doing is I'm asking the database to look for the phrase social movements with quotations around it, and that helps tell the database that I don't want social or move and movements to be found separately 18:10:53 within the source, because it might not be meaningful.

And also I am using and to combine concepts. 18:11:00 So I'm telling you. It has to have something about poetry or songs. 18:11:05 So by putting poetry or songs it it broadens it a little bit, because either the word poetry or the word song can be in the results, and then I'm going to also add another concept. 18:11:16 So I'm telling it race or ethnicity can be in the results. 18:11:19 So, or kind of brought in, said a little bit, maybe gives you a few more results and can narrow it a little bit, because in this case all 3 of these concepts need to be presented. 18:11:31 Another example, Harlem Renaissance, putting it in quotes, because it does make sense to keep it together as a phrase, you don't always need to. 18:11:38 Sometimes, if it's a really known phrase like that, you can just type it in straight. 18:11:44 And it's not actually necessary to add the quotes, but it can help. 18:11:48 And then in this case, I'm adding, I'm combining it using, and with the root of theater or theatrical by using an asterisk or a little star after the tea it tells the database that any form of the word theater or theatrical would 18:12:07 be acceptable and just to you know, another quick illustration of how this works. 18:12:12 Why you would use, and why you would use or not, as another bullet. 18:12:19 The 3 Boolean words are and or not, and not, is also can be useful it's a little bit more rare, you know. 18:12:25 We usually aren't particularly telling the database to not include something, but you never know. 18:12:30 Sometimes you would, you know. For example, if you were searching for something about apples, the fruit, you might say. 18:12:38 But you don't want the Apple Corporation, you might say not corpor corporation or company, or something like that, to kind of get rid of things that have that word prominent in the in the results. 18:12:49 So so again. It's it. The Venn diagram helps because puppy and kitten gives you anything that falls within that centerpiece puppy orkit and gives you everything that could possibly be encompassed and not helps sort of carve out 18:13:06 anything that does not have kitten just another kind of this is really just the same thing.

18:13:12 It's another example of why you might, how you might put together a phrase like this, and here's one where the truncation symbol, like I mentioned the asterisk. 18:13:22 The question mark is another truncation symbol. Again, it's usually not necessary, but a good example would be women or women. 18:13:31 So, having the question mark where that Val should be. It's sort of takes the place over one letter, whereas the asterisk can take the place of many letters. 18:13:40 So in this case women are girls or female, and combining them all, because any of those terms can work and leadership. 18:13:45 And United States, and it's often helpful to put United States in quotes because of how that word that those words could appear separately and have no, not the same meaning that you're looking for. 18:13:57 Okay, just thinking about why, you might add more keywords versus fewer keywords. 18:14:04 Would you're looking for books or ebooks. Broader search terms makes sense, especially if you're looking for just anything about a particular author. 18:14:13 You don't need to add those additional keywords with. And or you could really just put down that author's name in order to find books that are relevant. 18:14:22 But sometimes when you're looking for articles, you do want to add a few more, a few more terms, because I'm articles are going to be much more specific. 18:14:30 So if you're searching in an article database, and you want to, you might put, say, an authors name and say, you know, and you know, and if the author, if you looking at works about the dealing with how the author looks at concept of memory for example, you might say and memory you know 18:14:50 Tony Morrison, and Memory, as opposed to just searching the author's name.

18:14:54 So I'm just gonna jump us right into first. 18:14:57 The library and canvas, which I believe I also showed a little bit at at the orientation, but then from there I will jump into the library website. 18:15:10 Okay, so just to point out once again, real quick that the library doesn't have a canvas space. 18:15:17 I'm gonna show you this stuff, so you don't have to see as many little buttons as I see. 18:15:24 But in the libraries, canvas space there's a few things to point out. 18:15:27 For one thing, we are current hours are going to be posted here. 18:15:32 So when the Residency is happening on the Plfield campus, we may have extended hours. 18:15:36 So it's good to point to have have a look at that also. 18:15:40 There are buttons to basic library intro information, orientation information that I won't get to into into this time around, because you can always go back and find it. 18:15:53 And then all of a few other research tips. At this button and ask a librarian to discussion. 18:15:59 Forum, and I'll I will be adding a little bit more in this resources area. 18:16:04 But you might wanna check that out as well. The library worksshops is where you can go specifically to find the recordings of these webinars. 18:16:16 So a couple of days after this one you'll be able to find that recording here as well. 18:16:21 I'm gonna leave the student view and go back to the homepage. 18:16:27 In addition to finding it on the main Goddard website, you can always find the the library's website address here in canvas as well. 18:16:39 So just so, you know, so pretty much everything starts at the library homepage, and I will let you spend time on your own browsing. 18:16:50 All of the menu selections. You can also review that info in the orientation to learn more about what's hiding in all of these menu tools. So it's worth spending a little time. 18:17:02 And also the Library News and Bookcousel features. We also always have our most up-to-date hours here including any days where we might be only available remote.

18:17:14 So the discovery search is a is, it is a tool that brings a all of the databases that we subscribe to. 18:17:24 I should, I should say, almost all of them. It doesn't include results from the canopy streaming video database. 18:17:32 And it also doesn't necessarily have certain article databases likes. 18:17:38 I'm gonna just point out the one file news. If for any reason you're looking specifically for a newspaper. 18:17:44 Just so, you know, we do have a dedicated newspaper database, and you can find it here under a list of top library databases. 18:17:51 But it's a lot harder to search for news article in the discovery search and and get good results. 18:17:57 So if you happen to, you know, come upon a New York Times article, for example, that you can't get into the full text. 18:18:02 Go ahead and jump over here to one file news in addition, the gale ebooks is sort of a a background encyclopedia, database basically. 18:18:15 So it's worth knowing that's it. That's there. 18:18:19 And also jstor, which you can get to Jason results within the discovery. Search. 18:18:24 But every once in a while you may wanna try exploring doors separately, and I'll show you why. Let me just jump in there. 18:18:35 Whenever you are logging into a one of our databases from off campus, like I am right now, it is going to prompt you to log in as a Goddard student. 18:18:46 So you just need to go ahead and select your gmail account. 18:18:50 Jstor has a lot of really interesting features which are worth exploring when you, when you get a chance they have their own sort of thing called Workspace. 18:18:58 Now, which is an opportunity for you to save articles and take notes. 18:19:03 And it's really just limited to the things that the jst has available in its collection. 18:19:08 But we can go right into their advanced search. They're also quite a few images. 18:19:14 You can search by images in here as well, but let's just say for the sake of argument, I wanted to find something on.

18:19:23 Oh, I used Tony Morrison as an example last time. 18:19:31 Oops. I don't need to add a search box. 18:19:33 Sorry. I'm just going to you do a straight, a straight search without getting too fancy here, and you'll see that there's 17,000 results. 18:19:46 So there are a lot of results from a broad range of journals in a lot of different fields of study, including a lot of real interdisciplinary ones. 18:19:55 I'm just gonna go back for a second to that search screen that I was on, because another thing that I could have done after entering my keywords. 18:20:06 Would be to limit my results by scrolling down to look for a specific item type, for instance, like, if I wanted a book review, I could narrow it down that way. 18:20:19 I could narrow it down that way, I could narrow it down by publication, date, or by language. 18:20:23 But what's really interesting is that you can narrow down by discipline or journals, which is pretty cool. 18:20:29 So if I wanted to go in here and just select certain discipline areas like African American studies and American studies, and then maybe scroll down a little further to I don't know. 18:20:46 I'm just gonna stop there and see what I get. 18:20:48 So if I narrow it down to just those fields and submit the service. 18:20:56 It. It reduces the total number, but it helps narrow it down a little bit, so if in some cases it might be useful to do a search that way, let me just jump back to the library website because that was just sort of demonstrating jstor as a specific place to look and again, that 18:21:15 is found under top library databases. Another place is the literary reference center plus. 18:21:23 So we can jump in there and see what that has to offer. 18:21:29 This does also have a range of sort of special features, including featured collections. 18:21:39 So if you were, let's just click into the lottery by Shirley Jackson.

18:21:46 It will give you sort of a collection of works that are about that, and some of it might be biographical profiles of Shirley Jackson. 18:21:56 In other cases you might find this the actual full text, especially if it's a short story it's actually a pretty good place to look for some full-text short stories and poems, not a whole lot in the way of novels. 18:22:13 You never know. It's worth. It's worth exploring. 18:22:16 And then I can also actually enter searches like that as well. 18:22:20 So I'm going to go ahead and do advanced search just to see what some of the options are. 18:22:27 In addition to being able to limit by publication, date, or language, you can, you can add a literary author in here as a way of just sort of narrowing down, perhaps a topic search and you can also go ahead and find literary authors gender or cultural identity. 18:22:51 So that's kind of another interesting way that you might want to explore to see if you can identify all that you may not be familiar with. 18:22:59 National identity, lifeline, literary characters. 18:23:03 You can search for, so it gives you a lot more options that are very specific to the world of literary works, and that is one reason why you might go directly into literary reference center plus rather than just staying with the discovery search, even though you can discover those articles. 18:23:24 Through the main search so I'm gonna dive into the main search a little bit. 18:23:28 This box is just sort of the simple, basic search where you could enter any set of keywords that you want. 18:23:36 You could jump into that advanced search screen. If you want to. 18:23:41 But I'm just gonna go ahead and start with a basic search. 18:23:45 So I'm just gonna start with Harlem Renaissance. 18:23:47 And I'm not gonna add any other terms, or really get fancy with it. 18:23:51 Let's just see what comes up. The first thing you might notice when you're searching from outside of plain field is the welcome guest.

18:24:04 Sign into your institution, Link, and it makes sense to go ahead and do that pretty much as soon as you see it. 18:24:10 So you don't hit any walls later on. It's gonna do the same thing that it did before. 18:24:14 Actually, it remembers me because I just logged in. 18:24:17 So it's not specifically asking me to choose a Gmail account. 18:24:22 So now what I'm getting here are would be a research starter, which is a background article. That is an encyclopedia. 18:24:29 Article, and a number of different ebooks. Ebooks often rise to the top of the search, not always, but sometimes they're a little, you know. 18:24:39 They're very current, and they have a lot of the key word that you enter may appear several times in the description of the book. 18:24:48 So when you are searching and you don't select a field. 18:24:51 What it is doing is it's looking for the presence of those words or phrases in the typele, in the author field in the description and subject. 18:25:03 Headings, so that it there is a bit of a relevance ranking here. 18:25:11 So for the most part, the ones that rise to the top of the list are gonna be what the database considers to be the most relevant, based on your search. 18:25:19 You can always change that. You can decide that you want to see just the newest first or the oldest first. 18:25:24 And that will change the order of the results, in which case it may or may not be the most relevant. 18:25:33 At the top, and it may be that his that the word appropriate in, you know, a little bit less, you know, a prominent place. So I'm gonna go back to the relevance ranking. 18:25:46 And now so I have over 10,000 results. But now it might be a good time for me to narrow it down a little bit. 18:25:52 So let me just try a string that's related to literature, because perhaps I want to. 18:25:57 I want to find sources that are a little less focused on music or visual arts. 18:26:01 For instance. So I can say literature or writers, or poet.

18:26:07 Poets or you might say, poetry or fiction. There's a you can kind of go crazy with, or just adding a whole bunch of different things that are roughly synonyms. 18:26:21 They don't obviously don't mean all the same thing. 18:26:22 But they're in the same idea, I want to let the database know that any of those words are okay to appear. 18:26:30 And so that does narrow it down by about half, which is helpful, because it may have filtered out some things that I didn't particularly need to see what it's also gonna be doing is showing me all the different. 18:26:44 You know, book item types, including ebooks and academic journal articles. 18:26:51 So I can use the source limiter over here on the left I can narrow down to just Amp academic journals, or just books, or just ebooks. 18:27:00 If I know that what I want to do is try to find something that is specifically in the life, in print, in our catalog I can click catalog only, and these are the books that you can find on our shelf, or you can request if you're not gonna be on campus so when you 18:27:18 do that. You can just kind of go through, and either you would start by hitting retrieve, catalog. 18:27:25 Item, because what that does is takes us sort of out of this database and discovery search, and into the library's catalog. 18:27:34 And this is where you can get a little bit more information about the book, and you can sometimes see a full table of contents, and there you can jot down the call number, or you can choose to place a request, and once you do that, you just need to sort of confirm, your request and then the 18:27:55 book, will be mail to you. Generally speaking, my colleague, Paula, does most of the circulation work, and of, you know, sending out books and receiving books back in checking them back in so, generally speaking, when you place one or 2 requests Paula is probably gonna wait until you have placed 18:28:16 more, because that way she can bundle them all into one box.

18:28:23 So you can always email the library to say, I just requested a few books and I'm done for now. 18:28:27 So you know they're ready to go. Oh, that's helpful! 18:28:31 Okay, let me go back again. This is one of the problems with Zoom is getting to the tab. Okay? 18:28:40 Back to my results. So once again I'm still in these search results. 18:28:47 And now let's say I'm interested in looking specifically for something. 18:28:56 Oh, let me... Let me let me get rid of my catalog 18:28:59 only limiter. Pardon me, I'm gonna get rid of that. 18:29:07 Sorry it didn't, did not get rid of it. 18:29:11 Let me just try that one more time. Refresh the page. 18:29:20 Okay, sorry. I'm just gonna clear the clear the search and start again because it didn't refresh my. 18:29:29 Beginning. 18:29:36 Log, in again! 18:29:40 Okay. 18:29:46 And, by the way, it's not case sensitive. So I didn't necessarily need to capitalize. There. 18:30:00 Okay. And then say, for example, I wanna just look specifically for Langston use. 18:30:07 Now I can just add. 18:30:12 That name as a third option in the field. I also could have just, you know, just eliminated the second line if I wanted to. 18:30:22 But I'm gonna go ahead and search and just see how many results I get. 18:30:26 Okay, get a 658. So that's still a lot of things to look through. 18:30:30 So I've narrowed it down a little bit. 18:30:33 But what if I'm looking through? And I'm finding books that are specifically about lengths to use? 18:30:38 But I'm interested in seeing where else he may appear. 18:30:42 Instead of leaving that blank, I can go ahead and choose a field, and if I choose all text, it's actually going to search for his name throughout the text. 18:30:52 So it actually broadens it quite a bit. So it's not just looking for his name in the title or the description specifically. 18:31:02 So this can kind of be useful. If as you're browsing, you might discover something that you wouldn't have thought to look at, and you know that somewhere in this book this ebook, it discusses Langston Hughes so perhaps I'm intrigued by this title.

18:31:18 And I want to take a look. I can click directly into the Pdf. 18:31:22 Full text of the Ebook. 18:31:26 And let me just click on that. And with the Pdf. 18:31:30 Full-text open. This is opening to the front cover. 18:31:34 Here, I could browse through the table of contents, and I might find figure out. 18:31:39 By looking at the table contents where it talks about Langston. 18:31:43 Use. But another thing I can do with an e-book is to search within and. 18:31:49 So I can go ahead and enter his name. And I can find out exactly where in this e-book links and users mentioned. 18:31:59 So it's even better than an index at the back of the book, and then, having to page your way back so you can click right into one of the pages to see where his name is listed, and then you can get the full context and really dig into the content and that will work with really 18:32:16 any concept or terminology that you might want to find within an ebook. 18:32:22 If you're doing that kind of thing with an article you probably would just use the control. 18:32:27 F feature to search within the arc, and of course it isn't. 18:32:30 Gonna help you search within a print book because it doesn't have the capability of searching within a print book. 18:32:36 Let me go back! 18:32:42 I want to start talking about Zotero, because while I'm looking at search results, let me just do one more thing, though, I'm gonna clear this. 18:32:54 And I'm gonna try that search again. Harlem Renaissance, and this time I'm just keeping it simple. 18:33:05 If you put in a very basic term like this without additional keywords added, sometimes you will find a concept map, and if you click on that concept map, it's going to sort of do for you what I was mentioning in the whole brainstorming area, you could go in there and find other terms or people 18:33:29 or coms, that the database is kind of connecting to the the the idea of the Harlem Renaissance.

18:33:39 So you might, for example, want to explore some of these other. 18:33:43 These other topics. If you click into the one in the middle, it gives you very brief, very brief, summary of, or definition of, what the term means, but then you can also click on another another item, you can combine them into an actual search. 18:34:04 So you can click, add to search, and that will put it up here in a little search box over on the right, and then you could add another another another term. 18:34:16 So let's say, maybe I wanna look at Ethel Waters. 18:34:20 I probably wouldn't if I'm specifically oh, actually, it's not gonna pardon me. Let me click on. 18:34:28 Cultural movements and see what happens. Okay, once I add it to the search, then I have built an add search right here a Boolean search. 18:34:38 I can click, see full results, and it will jump me out of console map and into my search results where the phrase cultural movement actually comes up as a subject heading. 18:34:49 And that might be useful as well. Here we're seeing largely seeing a lot of academic journals rise to the top, which is kind of cool, and you'll also notice sometimes there'll be a link out to jstor or to another database for example, so that's kind of a 18:35:04 quick overview, of what you'll find in the discovery. 18:35:08 Search how you can manipulate the search a little bit, another thing, just to be aware of is that you have, for instance, the share button. 18:35:19 What that does is allows you to grab a persistent link to this search just to the full circle that you just did. 18:35:28 So you could copy and paste that link into your own document. 18:35:33 If you're going through and sort of taking some rough notes about what you've searched, you know what you're discovering as you search, you can save the permanent that way, and a permalink is a persistent link that will get you back to this this page.

18:35:47 But you don't want to grab the URL from the top of your browser, because that's not appropriate. 18:35:54 That will give you an error message, so don't grab that to save the pager on in this database. 18:36:02 But look for a permalink tool, and when it's when you're in the search results, the Peralink is over here and the share button and that's where that is. 18:36:11 But if you were to click on the title of an actual item, you can find the Permalink over here on the right, so you'd be able to grab that article and save that, and your search results as well. 18:36:26 Another thing just worth noting is that when you are looking at any search results, you're gonna notice highlighted subject terms. 18:36:32 And these are typically terms that have been applied by by the the publisher or the database. 18:36:41 Editors, and or sometimes they are Library of Congress, subject headings, especially for books and ebooks. 18:36:48 It's worth exploring those, because sometimes an individual one will be descriptive enough that you might want to go ahead and click into it to see what other articles are, or books have been assigned. 18:37:01 That subject heading, and sometimes they're a little bit more general, but they might help you form your own keywords. 18:37:07 So you might decide that you want to, you know, create a search term with popular culture, and you know, rap music as to separate keywords. 18:37:18 For instance. So we've gone down a little bit of a rabbit hole. 18:37:21 But let me just go back to the result list. 18:37:25 And I'm gonna go, actually, let me get out of this. 18:37:30 Back to the results that I was in, just to get a little bit broader. 18:37:34 Result to start with. So if I want to save resources into Zotero, let me go back and show you where you find more information about that. 18:37:46 So here on the library's website, you can go to help, and how to citing and managing sources. 18:37:55 And in this space there's a lot of good general information about sighting, including links out to the Mla style guide on line.

18:38:04 So that is worth checking out, you know, becoming familiar with Mla style and what it consists of. 18:38:14 I also have a real quick guide to Mla. 18:38:17 Style here, and you know they'll probably be some updates added to this at some point. 18:38:23 But this was something. I pulled together to give you. Just sort of, you know, simple, simple, simple examples of what a formatted Mla citation looks like. So. 18:38:37 And also there's a link to the Purdue. 18:38:39 Owls mla style Guide, which I highly recommend. The Purdue. 18:38:42 Owl is a really good guide for figuring out how to cite all kinds of unusual sources. 18:38:50 For example, and then I'm just gonna scroll up here. 18:38:55 There is a link to so terro information. There are other citation tools and tips here, including how to find those citation tools within the library database. 18:39:06 I will just show you what that looks like if I want to site. 18:39:12 Let me just go to an article for this. I will use my limiters. 18:39:18 Oh, actually, I'm in ebook now. I'm just in the books. 18:39:22 Sorry, and then the books. Let me go back here. 18:39:29 Okay, here we go. This was the search. I was on. Too many windows open. 18:39:36 If I would like. If I want to narrow this down to only academic journals, which I did not demonstrate before I can click that. 18:39:45 And now I'm looking at just a academic journals that came up for my Harlem Renaissance search. 18:39:52 So now, if I click on this title of this article, in addition to that permal link that I pointed out, there's also a site tool and what that does is it opens up the a formatted citation in several different citation. 18:40:10 Styles, so you'd have to scroll down to Mla, where actually, up to Mla. 18:40:14 Ninth edition. Some of the information I have on the website is still eighth Edition. 18:40:19 So just bear that in mind. But you could go ahead and grab that formatted citation and paste it into your bibliography, or save it in some kind of document for yourself.

18:40:32 It's always worth proofreading them carefully, because these are automatically generated. 18:40:38 So every once in a while there are typos in these automatic citations. 18:40:43 But I just wanted to point out that that site tool is there, because back here on the library website, we're under again. 18:40:51 We were under help, and how to citing and managing sources. 18:40:55 There. There are a number of different citation tools and tips, including the built-in ebsco site tool, and here, under Zotero, there's a lot of information about the free zotero software that you can go to the website and download this is not a library tool this 18:41:17 is something out there available to you on the open web. What you'd wanna do is download the software and install it on to the computer. 18:41:28 You normally use, and then you would also want to install the camera for your browser. 18:41:34 So I am using chrome so I installed the chrome connector, and then I will show you what the zotero tool looks like. 18:41:44 So now I have. 18:41:46 There's a taro app open on my computer. This is my library is highlighted. 18:41:52 This is all of the sources that I have saved. 18:41:57 It looks like a mess, but that's because you can create your own folders. 18:42:03 So you can create a what's called a collection. 18:42:06 You can click, go up here where it says little plus sign in a folder, and you can add a new collection and name it whatever you like, and then you can begin collecting items with them. 18:42:20 That. So let's say, for the sake of argument, I wanna just have a separate Harlem Renaissance. 18:42:29 Folder in my collection and start a new one. 18:42:32 Now I've clicked into it. It's empty. But Zotero is gonna remember that that was the last folder I looked at. And now I can go back to my search results back to my result list. 18:42:51 And perhaps I would like to save this article.

So I'm going to click on the title of the article. 18:43:02 And this is the page that has all of the metadata about the article metadata just means data about data. 18:43:08 So this is the page that has the authors. That source meaning the journal, the volume and issue number, often other information like the abstract. 18:43:22 The Issn or the Doi number. There's a lot of information about the article on this page. 18:43:28 The article itself is over here in the Pdf. 18:43:32 Full text link. But from this page I can go up to my browser, where I have the zotero Plugin, and I can hover over this little. 18:43:40 It looks like just a blank. It just looks like a page of writing. 18:43:44 It's this page Icon, it says, save as a terror. 18:43:47 If I click on that it will save to the last folder that I had open, which is the Harlem Renaissance folder. 18:43:56 And now, if I go to my Zotero, it is automatically saved. 18:43:59 Here, and here is all of that metadata. It's the type of item, the title, the author, the abstract, the publication volume, issue pages, dates, all of that is right. 18:44:14 In there also, you will note there's a little little carrot here. 18:44:18 You can click on because this database had the full text of the article available as a Pdf. 18:44:24 I can now find that full text of the article in my zotero. 18:44:30 It automatically saves it for me. I don't have to go through the process of downloading the article and saving it to my desktop. 18:44:37 It is now part of my Zotero collection, which is pretty amazing because it happened so fast. 18:44:44 I'm gonna go back to my search results and back to my result list. 18:44:50 And now you'll remember that I use the academic Peer Review journal, Limiter. 18:44:55 I'm gonna take that limiter off now, because I would like to save maybe a book or an ebook. 18:45:00 So! 18:45:03 I will scroll down. It's doesn't seem to like to get rid of my limiters today.

18:45:12 Wait. Let me see. Limit by source type. Let me show more and go to ebooks. 18:45:19 Okay. 18:45:24 Sorry. One sec. 18:45:36 Hmm, okay, I'm having trouble because I have the. 18:45:45 I have the captions on. Alright! 18:45:54 Okay, I can update. Now, I'm limiting it to just e-books. 18:46:08 Huh? Okay, so there's something going wrong. I'm just gonna clear this and start over. I'm gonna hit the new search. 18:46:25 All right. There we go now. It's giving me some e-books. 18:46:28 Okay. So if I decide that I would like to save this in my bibliography again, I click on the title. 18:46:35 So I get to that page with all the good metadata, and then up here I can click on, save to Zotero, and it will save it to that as a book record. 18:46:46 Even though the ebook is available to me. Full text on the library database sootero is not going to save the entire text of the book, but it will still save all of the book information so that it can be they can be part of your bibliography you might occasionally see something 18:47:05 unusual, like. In this case, it says author, the late Nathan Urban Huggins, and that would not be what you'd want to have in your bibliography. 18:47:14 You might occasionally see something unusual like in this case. 18:47:17 It says author, the late Nathan Urban Huggins, and that would when you are in Zotero, and you can make changes and corrections to to your metadata here, and it also is showing the author first name middle name. 18:47:30 Last name you can click a little toggle here over the side to switch it so that it's showing last name. 18:47:37 Followed by the first first and middle name, because that is the format you're gonna want for your bibliography. 18:47:43 So now I have a couple of sources. Let me just see if I could add one or 2 more and go back to my result list. 18:47:51 I do, I might want to go ahead and get one of the books from the library, so if I click catalog only. 18:48:01 Which I had done before. So this is the same search we were looking at earlier.

18:48:06 I can go into the catalogue and even though I'm no longer in the database now, I'm in the library catalog, where all of the print books are. 18:48:17 I can still use this Zotero plugin, so I can click on that. 18:48:24 It's still gonna save it to the same collection. 18:48:27 And just like with the ebook it's going to save the all of the bibliographic information. 18:48:34 But of course it's not going to save the full text of the book. 18:48:37 So now, if I wanted to create a bibliography from these sources, I could just copy the ones that I want or not copy. 18:48:47 Sorry highlight the ones that I want, and I can go into my edit button and click copy bibliography and now I can go into a word document, and I can. 18:48:59 I'll just do it there, and I can paste. 18:49:02 And now I have a an Mla formated bibliography. 18:49:06 Now at some point I told Zotero to format it, as Mla. 18:49:12 Style, but you can always change or go into the edit and the preferences in order to tell it which style, to use. 18:49:23 So in this case it's coming out and correct, although there might be some little, you know, typos or things to change. 18:49:31 The Harpercollins publisher. I don't think needs to all run together. 18:49:36 I think we can put the spaces in there, so things like that might need to be changed manually. 18:49:40 But you really have a lovely formatted, formatted bibliography. 18:49:46 Now you can also add in text citations to your paper. 18:49:51 So if you're writing your long critical paper, for instance, and you need to add such citations, you can go, and you can put your cursor in the right place and and go up here where these otero Tab is, and you will have the Zotero tab after you have added sootero to your computer and there. 18:50:16 Might be another step involved, but the website has very good documentation about that so now, if I'm in here I wanna add edit citation, I'm gonna go ahead and click there and what it will do is open a first will ask me my what form I want which 18:50:33 is good because I think it defaulted to Apa last time.

18:50:37 So Mla. Ninth edition. I'm gonna say, okay. 18:50:42 And now there's a search for, and the search box is going to ask me to search for some words in in a title, so I know that I'm gonna use my Juneteenth collection because I have a different collection about Juneeteenth and I know 18:50:58 that it's pretty relatively easy to find those in here, because all I need to do is start typing that word. 18:51:04 So now I have located the author who I want to cite in my collection because it's just opened it up for me to search. 18:51:12 Let me do another one. 18:51:16 Okay, I'm gonna do that author. And now I'm gonna do another one. 18:51:29 Maybe it's that one, and I'll do one more. 18:51:40 Okay. Let's see this one. Okay. So now I have a number of in-text citations and say, I want to format a bibliography from that. 18:51:54 This is gonna the text is the the font is, gonna look bigger. 18:51:57 Just because I formatted this paragraph in larger font for the demonstration, but all I need to do now is click. 18:52:05 Add edit. Bibliography. So this is where I might, you know, type works cited on a new page, and then put my cursor there. 18:52:13 And now it is giving me a mla formatted bibliography of the sources that I just cited within my paper. 18:52:23 So, this is a pretty remarkable tool, using Zotero with with those plugins with the word pro plugin. 18:52:31 You can also do it with Google Docs. It's a little clunkier when I demonstrate it. 18:52:36 So I didn't want to demonstrate Google Docs. 18:52:38 Cause. I think I have an another layer that's confusing it a little bit on my computer or my account. 18:52:46 But you can set up as many collections as you like. 18:52:49 Another thing that you can do when you are. When you go to the Sootero website itself. 18:52:59 It will allow you to set up an account to use the web version of, so that you can be saving materials to the cloud if you choose.

18:53:12 And then you can sync it up between your desktop and the web version it's just that you need the desktop version in order to auto automatically save items from a website or a library database like this so it's worth doing both. 18:53:28 Especially if you have an interest in sharing with others or working collaboratively on a project because they do have a group option. 18:53:39 So you can set up a group and share, share a collection of resources so you can set up a group and share share a collection of resources. 18:53:46 So that is worth reading about, and learning a little bit more about on your own 200 and resources. 18:53:51 So that is worth reading about and learning a little bit more about on your own. 18:53:51 But it's a really wonderful resource, you know, if you're not quite ready to take the plunge into Zotero, the library databases also provide you with a few other ways that you can save things. 18:54:02 So in addition to just grabbing that permalink for yourself, so you can always get back into this article or this book and and grab the citation by using the site tool in addition to those sort of real quick and dirty ways of grabbing sources, you can go into this section here you can 18:54:24 add this to your Google drive. So you can begin building a little bit of a collection in your own Google drive. 18:54:31 It's not quite as perfect in the way it pulls everything in as as, and it't necessarily then format your references for you, but it is a really good way to just very quickly start saving things as you're searching. 18:54:46 You can also do it with a folder, so you can go to. 18:54:52 You can add this item to your folder. Now the problem is it's not going to prompt you to let you know that just clicking to your folder isn't enough. 18:55:02 If it's says sign in across the top and the blue bar here. 18:55:07 That means that although you are signed into Goddard, so that the database recognizes you as having authorization to use to use the full text, it does not know who you are, you're not signed in as yourself.

18:55:22 So if you click on this sign in button for a second sign in, it's gonna take you into your own sort of saved account. 18:55:32 Within, ebsco ebsco being the company that provides the discovery, search and our other databases within it. 18:55:40 So now, you see, I've clicked to sign in. 18:55:42 So now I can see that I have a folder that has items in it, and I have added this item. 18:55:50 I can click again to remove it. If I want to. 18:55:54 I can also put it in specific folders that I've created. 18:55:56 So let me just click on that, so you can see that when you are signed in, and you see that you have a folder with contents, you can then manage that. 18:56:06 You can go in and see anything that you may have manually saved to your account, and you can also create your own. 18:56:14 Subfolders your own custom folders. So in this case I did create one for June teeth, because I was saving a number of resources. 18:56:24 But I don't think that is, I may not have added content to it yet. 18:56:30 But you can move things into different folders. 18:56:35 By copying or moving to different place, and you can, you know, similar to Zotero, may be a little bit more awkwardly. 18:56:45 You can you can have your own custom collections in that way. 18:56:49 When you are in search results, and it jumps you out to another database. 18:56:59 Let me go back. 18:57:06 I'm just gonna click on. 18:57:12 It's mostly showing me ebooks right now. But if, for instance, it was, it, it jumped you out over to J. 18:57:19 Stor, you wouldn't be able to save to that section. 18:57:23 That same space from jstor Chase, or let you save stuff within store so it can get a little confusing, because you may have a few things safe to your workspace with a And J store, and then other things saved to ebsco but what you can always do is save the records so if 18:57:41 you are in.

If you just if you find an article record that doesn't have the full text, and you have to follow a link to go out to the full text. 18:57:53 That's okay, because you can still save the information within within Ebsco, so let me just jump back to the library website because I' point out one more thing under help and how to. 18:58:08 In addition to citing and managing sources and some technical information that might be useful, you can click into the research and subject guides, and these are being updated really, right now, you'll notice an Mfa. W. 18:58:30 Subject guide, so you can click on that. It's gonna look different from the main web page. 18:58:35 But I'm actually making adjustments to it right now. 18:58:38 So maybe even within the next week it's going to look a little bit more like the main library webpage in terms of the format. 18:58:46 But you'll see that there are some selected books that you might want to browse, that are relevant to the writers. 18:58:55 Craft, so that is worth exploring a little bit, and then there are other tabs that might include relevant journals, for instance, as well as websites, and perhaps links to professional associations or govern agencies that may be of use to you i've added a little bit on the 18:59:17 homepage. I've added some archival resources and more, Mla. 18:59:23 Style examples as well. So I know sometimes folks are really looking for I've added a little bit on the home page. I've added some archival resources and more Mla. Style examples as well. 18:59:35 So I know sometimes folks are really looking for resources that it may be out on the open web that are useful for digital archives, for photographs or historical records based on what it is you're writing about or researching so I've tried to gather a few of those I may be adding to this 18:59:45 and again, sometime in the coming week, when you do go to that place that help and how to research and subject guides that Mfaw.

18:59:55 Guide is going to be. Look a little bit more like the one that I reformatted for the psychology and counseling program. 19:00:01 So the tabs will be off here on the side and you'll be able to explore those, and they'll be more ebook selections added as well. 19:00:11 So stay tuned for that there were just a couple of technical glitches that kept me from getting that done before today. 19:00:18 But I look forward to having that all done.