Library & Information Science Research

NVivo is used to analyze unstructured text, audio, video, and image data.

A list of random number generators and information about randomness. How random!

SPSS is used for statistical data analysis.

An easy way do some basic text analysis functions such as word and sentence counts; minimum/maximum sentence length; counts of words and phrases used; and more.

"A free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data"

A web-based way to do some simple text cleaning such as removing common words, adjectives, pronouns, or numbers.

Free from the Online Learning Initiative.

Kent State University Libraries published this incredible guide, which includes information about using Google Forms, GPower, JMP, Minitab, NVivo, Qualtrics, R and RStudio, SAS, SPSS, and Stata.

"The Librarian Parlor (aka LibParlor or #libparlor) is a space for conversing, sharing expertise, and asking questions about the process of developing, pursuing, and publishing library research. We feature interesting research methodologies, common challenges, in progress work, setbacks and successes."

A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored project to identify best practices for and excellent examples of qualitative research. Though this is meant for health sciences researchers and grant proposal evaluators, it's a useful overview for all disciplines.

From the producers of Laerd Statistics, a fee-based statistics tutorials product, this is a straightforward introduction to sampling strategy.

This site has several sections, including a comprehensive knowledge base of applied social research methods and guided statistics selection tool.