Directions in ALDS
Course Instructor:
Tracy Hodgson Drysdale
| A great resource for overall help with the Research process : designing your research, help with methodology, collecting data,etc is our new database: Sage Research Methods |
What might have been a "good enough" search for resources when you were an undergraduate, may not cut it as a graduate student: you will need to dig deeper and expand your universe, be better organized and more analytical. The resources discussed on this course site should help.
Broaden your horizons:
- go beyond our own library's collection: U of O, reciprocal borrowing, WorldCat, RACER (Interlibrary Loans)
- delve into new types of material: find theses, conference proceedings
Dig deeper:
- improve your searches by using thesauri and subject terms, following citation trails
Organize & analyze
- Citation managment tools: Mendeley, Zotero
- NVivo: qualitative data analysis
- Writing help, e.g. for literature reviews
