Research Tools

general resources

guides and definitions

• Pitfalls of Data Analysis (or How to Avoid Lies and Damned Lies)
• Selected Bibliography on Methods in Applied Anthropology – Alvin W. Wolfe, USF, 1998

publications

• Field Methods Journal (formerly Cultural Anthropology Methods) 
  
• Social Science Methodology from Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)

• Methods, Journals, Databases, and Organizations

Research Methods

• general resources and methods (qualitative, quantitative, epidemiological & demographic)
• grant writing tips
  

IRB (Instituationl Review Board)

• Institutional Review Board

Academic Resouces: Journals

• anthropology & medical anthropology
• medical humanities
• health & social science
• public health/international health
• medicine & health newsletters
• other journals and print media of interest
• BioMed Central
  The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are ‘Open Access’. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge. A number of journals require an institutional or a personal subscription to view other content, such as reviews or paper reports. Free trial subscriptions to these journals are available.
• LinkOut: Journals in PubMed
  Journals in PubMed for which links to the full text have been provided are listed, sorted by title (journal abbreviation), provider name (provider abbreviation) and years of full text availability. A list sorted by journal provider is also available.
• List of Epidemiology Journals from Hongyu Zhao, Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health & Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine
• INCLEN/INDIACLEN: free database of medical journals

visit lists of social science journals at:

• the University of California, San Diego
  
• World Wide Web Virtual Library
• visit MarriottMD.com for a list of medical literature on the internet

free access to journals by those in developing countries

• New England Journal of Medicine

Academic Resouces: Databases

• social sciences

  • SMA film database
  • ADAM a database for Anthropology (en français)
  • data sources from the Data Library Service, University of Toronto — includes US and international data
  • Data Service Resources - RGSS (from Resource Guide to Social Sciences)
  • Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD)
    OxLAD is a free, downloadable, on-line resource for reliable, consistent, and comparable economic and social data series from 1900-2000 for 20 countries in Latin America.
  • Recent Dissertations in the Medical Humanities, compiled by Jonathon Erlen, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh
  • Social Science Data Archives
    
  • Social Science Data Collection, University of California, San Diego
  • SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway
  • Statistical Resources on the Web, University of Michigan Documents Center
    (check out the experimental statistics database)
  • UC Data – InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research: Social Science Data and Resources for Researchers
  • other resources – from UC Data

• national health

  • Census state data centers – United States Bureau of the Census
  • Drug Statistics Master Page: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Statistics
  • National Center for Health Statistics
  • National Center for Health Statistics: Trends in Health and Aging

• international health

  • AiDA: Accessible Information on Development Activities from the Development Gateway
  • The Communication Initiative: Baseline – summaries of international development trend data
  • data sources – from the Global Reproductive Health Forum
  • Development Gateway – A directory of over 500,000 activities of major bilateral organizations, multilateral development banks and UN agencies. Over 100,000 are ongoing and planned, residing in the live database.
  • Global Health & Global Health Archive from CABI Publishing
  • Global Health Atlas, an Interactive World Map
  • Individual data archives, data libraries and related institutions – sorted by country, University of Toronto
  • KU-UC database - knowledge utilization, innovation & smart practices, and policy & management of health services
  • Leeds Health Education Database
  • National Population Policies 2003 – United Nations Population Division
    Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • PAHO Health Situation in the Americas Basic Indicators
    PAHO Core Health Data Initiative – Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas

Academic Resources: In other Languages

• methods, US health, global health, & publications

Academic Resouces: Organizations

• professional

  • other AAA sections, professional organizations, and academic organizations/centers

• government

  • US federal government agencies
  • ministries of health
  • non-US bilateral organizations

• non-government

  • health-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
  • health & human rights organizations
  • regional organizations
  • international organizations

 

qualitative methods & quantitative methods

publications

• Field Methods, a refereed journal, publishes articles on methods for studying human thought and human behavior
• International Journal of Qualitative Methods, a peer reviewed journal published quarterly as a web-based journal by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and its international affiliates. It is a multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual journal, free to the public.

qualitative research tools

• Short Courses on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology (SCRM), supported by the National Science Foundation
• Qualitative Methods Bibliography, from the University of New Mexico School of Nursing’s Qualitative Cafe
• Qualitative Research Net Ring
• Qualitative Research Bibliography - Bobbi Kerlin, Ph.D.
• Qualitative Research Resources created by Don Ratcliff, Ph.D.
  includes seminar notes and full text of Video and Audio Media in Qualitative Research
• Qualitative Tools for Multimethod Research, Division of Social and Community Psychiatry Neuropsychiatric Institute UCLA – includes Complete Annotated Bibliography
• The Qualitative Report - Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University
• Resources for Fieldworkers, Appendix F for: H. Russell Bernard 2006. Research Methods in Anthropology. 4th edition. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press

quantitative research tools

• Resources for Fieldworkers, Appendix F for: H. Russell Bernard 2006. Research Methods in Anthropology. 4th edition. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press
• Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources
  an annotated, topic-based collection of available resources for statistics, statistical graphics, and computation related to research, data analysis and teaching
• Statistical considerations for clinical trials and scientific experiments
  Find sample size, power or the minimal detectable difference for parallel studies, crossover studies, or studies to find associations between variables, where the dependent variable is Success or Failure, a Quantitative Measurement. or a or a time to an event such as a survival time.
• Software and statistics: documentation and sources
  from Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), U. of Toronto
• HyperStat Online – An Introductory Statistics Book and Online Tutorial for Help in Statistics Courses
• Web Resources in Statistics – from the Division of Biostatistics, UCSF
• download the latest version of EpiInfo from the CDC

epidemiological & demographic methods

• Search the Population Index
• Data and Methods Project and Health and Wellbeing Project at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University
• OPR also has working papers

readings

research methods

• Shadish WR, Cook TC, Campbell DT. Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company; 2002 (ISBN 0395615569). A classic book that provides advance discussion of core issues in the experimental approach to causal inference. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of validity and threats to validity as well as detailed description of various experimental and quasi-experimental research methods.

statistics

• Minium EW, Clarke RC, Coladarci T. Elements of Statistical Reasoning. 2nd edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons; 1999 (ISBN 0471192775)
• Norman GR, Streiner DL. Biostatistics. The Bare Essentials. 2nd edition. Hamilton, Ontario: B.C. Decker; 2000 (ISBN 1550091239)
• Both books provide a comprehensive, down-to-earth review of basic statistics. Recommended for those who would like to be reminded (yet again&) of what to do and what to consider in data analysis.

clinical research

• Guyatt G, Rennie D, editors. User’s Guide to the Medical Literature. Chicago: AMA Press; 2002 (ISBN 1579471749). An excellent overview of how to read and critically appraise the medical literature. Recommended mainly for clinicians and those who are interested in applied epidemiology. Available also in a pocket version (ISBN 1579471919) and on a CD-ROM.
• Hulley SB, Cummings SR, Browner WS, Grady D, Hearst N, Newman TB. Designing Clinical Research. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2001 (ISBN 0781722187). A straightforward and reader-friendly practical guide for planning and implementing clinical research.
• Kane RL. Understanding Health Outcomes Research. Gaithersburg, MA: Aspen Publication; 1997 (ISBN 0834209594). The book provides a comprehensive discussion of outcome research along with some practical advice.