Research Methods Gateway

General Resources

• RM Knowledge Base by Bill Trochim

• Cornell Social Research Methods

• Research Methods in the Social and Natural Sciences - an interactive tutorial on five basic research strategies in science: experiments, correlation, surveys, naturalistic observation, and case studies

• Emory University Library's Political Methodology Research Guide

• Hanneman's simulation portal

• Qualquant.net - anthropologically-focused site

Journals

• Field Methods - a journal devoted to methodology of fieldwork.  Formerly Cultural Anthropology Methods (CAM)
• Organizational Research Methods (ORM)

Bibliographies

• Methods in Cultural Anthropology by Borut Telban
• Methods in Applied Anthropology by Al Wolfe

Qualitative Methods

• Qualitative Tools for Multimethod Research - a comprehensive guide and bibliography to overcome the qual-quant divide
• Qualitative Research - an excellent, comprehensive guide to resources in qualitative research methods
• The QualPage - by Judy Norris
• International Institute for Qualitative Methodology - includes links to other qualitative methods sites

Quantitative

• Web-oriented Teaching Resources in Probability and Statistics
• Virtual Lab in Statistics - based at Rice university, includes case studies, an analysis lab, simulations, and another online textbook: HyperStat Online
• Introduction to Data Analysis: Rules of Evidence - by Joel Levine and Thomas Roos of Dartmouth College
• Elementary Methods of Quantitative Analysis Interactive Syllabus - by Richard Timpone
• Chance - teaching tools for improving quantitative literacy
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• Statistics Calculators from UCLA
• SticiGui Online Statistics Text, by Philip B. Stark, University of California, Berkeley
• Surf Stat, an online statistics text

Software

• SPSS Tutorial - on-line textbook with exercises and downloadable datasets
• The R Project for Statistical Computing - a free, open-source computing language and environment for statistical computing and graphics (similar to the commercial application, S-Plus).

Classic Works

• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

People

• Herman Aguinis
• Jeff Edwards, UNC
• Robert Vandenberg
• Larry Williams, VCU