REFERENCE BOOKS
Beasley's guide to library research Ref Z675.R45 B42 2000 Dictionary of qualitative inquiry Ref H61 .S4435 2001 Dictionary of statistics and methodology: a nontechnical guide for the social sciences Ref HA17 .V64 1993 A guidebook of statistical software for the social and behavioral sciences Ref HA32 .S55 1998 Handbook of qualitative research Ref H62 .H2455 1994 Handbook of research design and social measurement Ref H62 .M44 1991 Handbook of research methods : a guide for practitioners and students in the social sciences Ref Q180.55.M4 S67 1995 Handbook of research synthesis Q180.55.M4 H35 1994 (not in reference) Handbook of tests and measurement in education and the social sciences Ref LB3051 .L4543 1997 Qualitative inquiry : a dictionary of terms Ref H61 .S4435 1997 Quantitative research in the social sciences HA29 .M2968 1999 (not in reference) The Survey Research Handbook Ref HF5415.2 .A33 1985
FINDING BOOKS --ONLINE CATALOG http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu
Conducting Literature Reviews
Conducting Research -- Sample Subject Headings: Click on the following to have a search run for you. Or you could combine these terms with another term.Conducting research literature reviews : from paper to the Internet -Phys Sci Ref Q180.55.M4 F56 1998 Guide to the successful thesis and dissertation : a handbook for students and faculty
Ref LB2369 .M377 1993Proposals that work : a guide for planning dissertations and grant proposals Ref Q180.55.P7 L63 2000 Dissertations academic handbooks (subject heading) click on previous phrase to see listing Proposal writing in research --click on previous phrase to see a list of books on this subject
Action Research Educational Surveys Ethnology Methodology Evaluation Research Longitudinal Method Mail Surveys Methodology research handbooks manuals etc Qualitative Research Questionnaires Research Evaluation Research Methodology Sampling Statistics Single Subject Social Sciences Methodology Social Sciences Research Social Sciences Statistical Methods Social Surveys Surveys Methodology
FINDING JOURNAL RESEARCH ARTICLES OR ARTICLES USING RESEARCH
To restrict to a type of research try typing in that type of research with another term. For example "action research and reading and elementary education" or "qualitative research and feminism". For some educational databases go to: http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/education In many scholarly databases, such as ERIC, PsycInfo and Sociological Abstracts, you can limit your research to research reports and for statistical data.. Always check the limit features in a database. See example of limiting below.
SOME SPECIFIC DATABASES OF INTEREST
All databases: http://www.library.umass.edu/research/bytitletxt.html
Anthropological Literature
Digital Dissertations (U.S. and some Canada)
ERIC (Education) also can access some ED documents full text online
Expanded Academic (popular and scholarly items -- an interdisciplinary database-- many full text)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Linguistics Abstracts Online
Mental Measurements
PsycInfo (Psychology)
Sociological Abstracts (Sociology)
Statistical Universe
Web of Science (a citation search database for all disciplines)
ONLINE JOURNALS Subscribed to by UMASS go to: http://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/babel.cgi?dokma=http://umlibr.library.umass.edu/screens/onlineresexplain.html and type in your subject or keyword to determine which journals we have online.
INTERLIBRARY LOAN/DOCUMENT DELIVERY http://www.library.umass.edu/ILL.html -- You can order items online.
Ask an ERIC Expert: http://ericir.syr.edu/Qa/ Education Collection Web Page of UMASS http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/education Statistics for Education http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/education/statist.html Testing/Assessment Web Pages http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/education/testing.html