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Research methodology
Qualitative
methods resources
General
"QualPage"
QualPage, by
Judy Norris (University of Alberta, Canada) provides extensive links to resources relating
to qualitative research, including electronic journals, discussion lists and conference
announcements:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/qual.html
The
Qualitative Research Page
This page by Bobbi Kerlin of Portland State University offers links to resources
for qualitative research categorized into "what is research?",
information gathering, qualitative methods course syllabi, theory and its role
in research, planning and preparing research, qualitative research bibliography,
interpreting and representing research, research ethics, research software,
research discussion groups, and dissertations on the web:
http://www.oit.pdx.edu/~kerlinb/qualresearch/
The
Qualitative Report
The
Qualitative Report, based at Nova Southeastern University is a peer-reviewed online
journal dedicated to qualitative methods:
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html
FQS
FQS is a multilingual online journal for qualitative
research, aimed at promoting discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different
countries and social science disciplines.
http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm
SOSIG:
Qualitative Research Subject Listing
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/
qualmeth.html
Action
Research
The
Cornell Participatory Action Research Network (PARNet)
A substantial online resource offering a bibliographic database,
full-text articles, information about PAR-related listservers, annotated
links to other web sites, a calendar of global events, and an e-mail
alerting service.
http://www.parnet.org/
Action Research
at Queen's University
Links to action research sites, and a selection of resources based at Queen's,
including conference papers, reports and presentations.
http://educ.queensu.ca/~ar/
Software packages
A variety of software
packages are available to support the processing and analysis of qualitative data. Among
the most common are NUD*IST/NVivo, ATLAS-ti and The Ethnograph.
NVivo
(successor to NUD*IST)
http://www.qsr.com.au/
ATLAS-ti
http://www.atlasti.de/
The
Ethnograph
http://www.qualisresearch.com/
Computer Assisted
Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) Networking Project
CAQDAS "aims to disseminate an understanding of the practical skills needed
to use software which has been designed to assist qualitative data analysis (e.g
field research, ethnography, text analysis). The project also provides a variety
of media where the debate surrounding associated methodological and
epistemological issues, can take place."
http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
Institute
for Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University
Dr Harald Klein's site offers
resources on computer based text analysis, offering information on software, archives,
articles, and newsgroups:
http://www.intext.de/TEXTANAE.HTM
Scolari
Scolari is the software division of Sage Publication. The Scolari Web site
offers information about research methods-related software and CD-ROMS, and
in some cases free demonstration versions:
http://www.scolari.co.uk/
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