Sage Research Methods Library
Unlike so many other items listed on this guide, SRMO is not a primary source collection, but as a methods collections par excellence, it may be enormously helpful to as you familiarize yourself with qualitative or quantitative methods of research, think through the ethical dimensions of a project, or contemplate a research design.
It has more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, case studies, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences. It also boasts the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.
Users can browse content by topic, discipline, or format type (reference works, book chapters, definitions, etc.). SRM offers several research tools as well: a methods map; user- created readng lists; a project planner' and advice on choosing statistical tests.
Digital Methods Primers
- Lupton, D., ed. (2020). Doing fieldwork in a pandemic
This crowd-sourced Google document was initially intended to help researchers adapt their face-to-face fieldwork to something more "hands off" and appropriately distanced in the age of COVID-19. However, people have added useful material about "born digital" research (i.e, content already generated on the internet by online interactions). The document, no longer open for edits, identifies methods that researchers can use to generate social science data by alternative paths.
- Jowett, D. (April 20, 2020). Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown: practical and ethical considerations.
- Remote Research: Library Support for Qualitative Research (Harvard Library Research Guide)
- COVID-19 Resources for Sociologists (Spring 2020). Harvard University Contemporary Ethnography and Inequality Workshop.