Credo ReferenceThis link opens in a new windowContent: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search
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Ebook CentralThis link opens in a new windowContent: Ebooks with coverage across all academic disciplines. The collection offers a critical mass of more than 150,000 foundational scholarly ebooks with balanced quantity and quality to improve teaching, learning and research workflow and outcomes.Purpose: Provides access to multidisciplinary ebooks for download or to be read online.Special Features: Browse by subject option; highlight and take notes in text.Help using this database.
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SAGE KnowledgeThis link opens in a new windowContent: Reference sources, primarily books but also videos and business cases. Purpose: Use for finding reference sources like encyclopedias and handbooks that provide contextual or explanatory material. Special Features: Includes Sage Navigator
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SAGE NavigatorThis link opens in a new windowContent: Pulls content from SAGE Knowledge, focusing on major works.Purpose: A valuable literature review tool for social science fields.Special Features: Includes an interactive chronology tool.
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SAGE Research MethodsThis link opens in a new windowContent: Books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on research methods and design. Purpose: Use to learn more about qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research. Special Features: Includes a methods map, project planner, and "which stats" test
Professor John Hitchcock discusses mixed methods and the best situations for this approach. Mixed methods combine qualitative and quantitative methods to use the strengths of both.
Provides students and researchers with the most comprehensive resource covering core methods, research designs, and data collection, management, and analysis issues.