Research Guides: Qualitative Research: Home

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Qualitative research can be a challenging and fulfilling research endeavor. University Libraries created this guide to help you find, analyze, and evaluate qualitative research. It is often a requirement in many of your courses at the University to find qualitative research on a specific topic or you may even design a qualitative research study.

Types of Qualitative Research
In this segment Professor John Creswell begins by outlining the types of data that can be collected for qualitative research. His presentation then expands to include descriptions of research designs that can applied to a qualitative research project.

Qualitative Research Journals Available at UofM

General Databases

Scopus
Scopus provides abstracts and citation tracking of peer-reviewed literature in science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. It features tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Researchers who use Web of Science will find Scopus indexes the same fields but with broader coverage. Users needing the Scopus ID" (for example, to use the "Papers by mekentosj" citation software), please use C000040240."
JSTOR
The JSTOR database consists of complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in all disciplines. Coverage: varies--going back to first year of publication and coming up to 3-5 years ago. See the Project Muse database for scholarly articles from within the past 3-5 years.
ERIC (ProQuest)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

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