LIS 504 - Bibliography

General

• Electronic Resources for Information Research Methods (maintained by Tom Wilson at the University of Sheffield)
• School of Library, Archival and Information Studies -- UBC (maintained by Mary Sue Stephenson at the University of British Columbia, includes a large number of links to Web pages on action research, case study research, content analysis, qualitative research, survey research, Internet research, measurement, reliability & validity, quantitative research, interviews, questionnaires, ethics, associations, electronic journals, software, and sampling)
• LIS1240: Research Methods (material for the Research Methods course at the University of Toronto, 1999, including extensive lists of printed and Web resources)
• Guides to Social Science and Qualitative Research (collection maintained by graduate students at Colorado State University)
• Research Methods (pages from 1999 designed to support Ruth Palmquist's Introduction to Research in Library and Information Science course at the University of Texas at Austin: Bibliometrics, Survey methods, Historical Approach, Qualitative Analysis, Content Analysis, Structural Analysis)
• Research Methods Knowledge Base (a textbook on quantitative social science research methods, created by William M. Trochim at Cornell University)
• The Researching Librarian ("created for librarians--new or experienced--who find themselves needing to perform research", with many links to other sites, maintained by Beth Ashmore at Samford University in Alabama)
• WWW Research Methods Tutorial (general introduction, including common errors in research, maintained by Jon'a F. Meyer, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ)

Sample Reports of Research

Some journals in the Graduate Resource Centre

• Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science.
• Information Processing and Management.
• Journal of Documentation.
• Journal of Information Science.
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
• Library and Information Science Research.
• Library Quarterly.
• Library Resources and Technical Services.

Refereed articles on the Web

• Information Research: An International Electronic Journal (published by the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, includes refereed articles.)
• Informing Science (also includes topics in education, journalism, and other related areas)
• JoDI: Journal of Digital Information (supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press)
• The Katherine Sharp Review (peer-reviewed articles by students in library and information science; ceased publication in 1999)
• Libres Electronic Journal ("an international, refereed, electronic journal devoted to new research in Library and Information Science")
• The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (published by the University of Houston Libraries, includes refereed articles; last issue 1998)
• << Journals Division of UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS >> (SIMILE, "a venue for scholarly articles which will bridge the subject areas of bibliographic instruction, information literacy, and media literacy")

Statistics

• "Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages" (links to a variety of Web-based calculators, as well as to other statistics resources, maintained by John C. Pezzullo, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; many of the calculations, such as ANOVA, are not available in Excel on the FIMS LAN)
• Maths, Stats & OR Network | Statistics & Operational Research home page (pointers to software, textbooks, data sources, and other information, part of the LTSN [Learning and Teaching Support Network] in the UK)
• SurfStat.australia (a general statistics textbook, with JavaScript and Java interactive elements, a project of the University of Newcastle, Australia)

Surveys

• Questionnaires and Surveys - A Free Tutorial (tutorial on questionnaire design created by David Walonick, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota, from his book Survival Statistics)
• S450 - 2000 Website (site for a course in survey research methods, maintained by John M. Kennedy, Department of Sociology, Indiana University)
• Survey Instruments in IS (maintained by Peter Newsted, Sid Huff, Malcolm Munro, & Andrew Schwarz at Athabasca University, Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Calgary, & Louisiana State University)
• User Surveys (pointers from 1997 to Web pages on user surveys in academic libraries, maintained by the Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC)
• What is a Survey? (a publication of the American Statistical Association for a general audience)

Ethics

• Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, developed by the three major Canadian federal granting agencies, an important guide to ethical standards for universities)
• ALA | Policy on Confidentality of Library Records.
• National Council on Ethics in Human Research (various links, but missing some useful material that was formerly on the site)
• On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research (a Web book of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, copyright 1994)
• Office of Research Ethics Home (UWO; with links to forms for ethics applications)

Other research methods

Content analysis

• Content Analysis Resources (maintained at the University of Alabama, includes links to information on many software packages)

Bibliometrics

• "Applications in Teaching Bibliometrics - 61st IFLA General Conference" (1995 paper by Sara von Ungern-Sternberg, Abo Akademi University, Finland)

Focus groups

• "Social Research Update 19: Focus Groups" (an overview by Anita Gibbs, Oxford University)

Qualitative Research

• "Kerlins.net - Qualitative Research" (pointers to various pages on qualitative research, maintained by Bobbi A. Kerlin)
• Qualitative Methods Workbook (a text with a number of sample reports, created by C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.)
• Qualitative Research in Information Systems (information on the conduct, evaluation and publication of qualitative research, maintained by Michael D. Myers, University of Auckland)
• "QUARC - Qualitative Research & Consulting: QDA Overview" (table comparing 4 software packages: Atlas.ti 4.2, The Ethnograph 5.03, QSR Nud*ist 4 , and winMAX 97 professional, created by Susanne Friese, QUARC - Qualitative Research & Consulting, Stuttgart, Germany)
• Welcome to QSR International (Website of a company that supplies software for qualitative research, with some on-line introductory material.)

Action Research

• Action research resources (maintained by Bob Dick at Southern Cross University, New South Wales, includes links to other action research sites)

Case Study

• "The Case Study as a Research Method" (with specific reference to library and information science, by Susan K. Soy at the University of Texas)

Historical Research

• Links to methods on the study of library history (part of the Libraries Today Website maintained by Lorne D. Bruce, University of Guelph Library)

Oral History

• History and Memory, Center for the Study of ("Oral History Techniques: How to Organize and Conduct Oral History Interviews" by Barbara Truesdell, Indiana University)

Research projects and proposals

Data Sources

• ARL Statistics at UVa Library (statistics and interactive graphs from the Association of Research Libraries, including data for UWO)
• Web Server Statistics for ARL
• Canadian Statistics (Statistics Canada Website giving access to summaries of various data including publishing, reading, and profiles of specific localities)
• The Researching Librarian: Statistics and Statistical Methods (links to a number of sources)
• Who's Viewing What (usage statistics for the www.uwo.ca server, with links to statistics for some other UWO servers)

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