Check out Sage Research Methods Online for these and other research methods books.
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| The SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social & Behavioral Research |
The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods |
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| Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics | Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods |
The UI Library Catalog also has research methods books available for checkout.
SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools.
Your goal: to find examples of specific methods being used. The best way to do this is not to do a keyword search, but to do subject or descriptor search.
Librarians and indexers assign subjects using specific language, called a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus. For example, library catalogs use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to organize books into categories. Most article databases use database-specific subject headings.
The goal is to provide a structured way of searching. For example, if you searched for Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, the word 'environment' or 'pesticide' doesn't appear in the title. However, if you search for books with a subject of "Environmental Health" or "Pesticides", Silent Spring will be classified within this subject.
Sociological Abstracts - the largest and most comprehensive sociology database - has a very helpful thesaurus of terms to help you focus on searching for a specific research method. Simply browse the list and select the terms you want to use for a search.
You simply add the terms using the button provided and then search. You can usually add other keywords, place names, etc to further narrow your search results.
This process is similar in nearly all major indexes, including:
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