Research Methods

Welcome! This guide lists a number of key Research Methods resources available to MIE Staff and Students in print and online. You can also use the Sage Research Methods, tools Methods Map and Project Planner to help you visualise and plan your research projects. See the pages above for sources specific to different methods. 

• Sage Research Methods: Methods Map 

  Explore the research methods terrain, read definitions of key terminology, and discover content relevant to your research methods journey

• Sage Research Methods Project Planner 

  This tool is designed to guide you through your research project. First, think about what stage you're at in your research. If you've already gotten started, click on the stage below that best describes where you are. If you're just starting out, it might be helpful to read more about why we do research before getting started.

• Academic Search Ultimate 

  The World’s highest quality multidisciplinary full-text journal database — includes expanding international content. Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
  Content Includes:
  
  9,017 active full-text peer-reviewed journals
  6,506 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo
  10,021 active full-text journals and magazines
  Unequaled Coverage of Key Subject Areas
  
  Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from Animal science, Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Ethnic and multicultural studies, Law, Mathematics, Music, Pharmaceutical sciences, Physics, Psychology, Science and technology, Women’s studies and more.

• EBSCO eBook Education Collection 

  Large collection of recently published education books

• Education Source 

  Extensive full-text education content, users will find the most comprehensive and most relevant search results.Includes content from Education Abstracts, Education Index Retrospective, Education Full Text, Education Research Complete and more than 200 additional full-text journals not previously available in any database.

• JStor 

  JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.
  
  Journals
  Full runs of more than 2,600 top scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR works with a diverse group of nearly 1,200 publishers from more than 57 countries to preserve and make their content digitally available.
  
  Books
  More than 90,000 ebooks from 250+ renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR. With DRM-free access to ebook chapters, our platform offers an easy, familiar user experience for researchers.
  
  Primary Sources
  More than 2 million primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. The artifacts, specimens, and documents in the collections are scanned at high resolution to enable detailed inspection of each item.
  
  Thematic Collections
  JSTOR’s thematic collections focus on emerging areas of research and contain multiple types of content, including journals and research reports. Collections include Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability.
  
  Open Community Collections
  JSTOR’s Open Community Collections initiative unlocks the potential of your institution’s special collections by making them freely available on the platform researchers, faculty, and students already know and use.

• Sage journals Education collection 

  This collection includes 109 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 65,000 articles. Access to content from January 1999 to the present is included in a collection subscription.

• Sage knowledge.

  The premier social science eBook platform, where you will find an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content. Temporary access due to the Covid-19 crisis until June 2020. SAGE Knowledge includes more than 5,500 SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, and professional development titles.

• SAGE Research Methods 

  SAGE Research Methods helps users create research projects and understand the methods behind them. It includes over 600 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the “Little Green Book” and “Little Blue Book” series. Journal articles and videos are also included.

• Sage Research Methods Video 

  Temporary access (until June 2020 due to Covid-19 crisis) to:
  SAGE Research Methods Video
  These 480+ streaming videos cover every aspect of the research process and hundreds of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods.
  Practical Research and Academic Skills
  Develop the practical skills necessary to conduct successful research with this collection of streaming video.
  Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Digital Methods
  This video collection covers a range of data science methods, the issues and challenges of using big data and digital methods, and the intersection of computer science and the social sciences.

• Taylor & Francis Online 

  Taylor & Francis Online (Education Collection) provides access to over 200 education journals. Subject coverage includes curriculum studies, early years education, educational research, educational leadership & management, further & higher education, history of education, science education, sociology of education, special needs & educational psychology, teaching and teacher education.