Links for Research Methods (INLS 201) Summer 2006
Bob Losee (losee@unc.edu)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, SILS

Research: a systematic investigation designed to produce generalizable knowledge (NIH definition)

Course Syllabus
(User Name is the first word of our building name [starts with an uppercase M])
(Password is the last word of our building name [starts with an uppercase H])

UNC Resources: the University Institutional Review Board and University Ethics and Compliance.

Using the Citrix Server,

Links regarding skepticism in science.

For discussions about research questions (not in professional contexts, unfortunately), try 1 or 2.

For examples of Operational Definitions, see 1 or 2 or 3.

For MIS surveys, try this.

A useful online qualitative journal: The Qualitative Report. For excellent discussions on both Qualitative and Quantitative methods, try QualQuant.net.

SPSS and a site with statistics programs that can be run on the web. Try looking at graphpad to see a good description of some of the options you need to consider when choosing a variety of statistical tests. Randomizer.org produces great random numbers.

Ethics and science links

Project planning for IMLS grants and projects.

Important methodological articles on cats and beards, marshmallow peeps, and peeps in libraries.