research



=Research=

General Information - Wikipedia Statistical Information Interviews (and Transcription) Information for University of South Carolina

Also see Citation and Style Guides, which includes Bibliographic Tools, Writing, Plagiarism, and Language Arts for resources about grammar, spelling, vocabulary, etc. Also see Educational Research Resources The handout is also available in PDF format


 * GENERAL INFORMATION**

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/page/17801672/FrontPage "This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity,..."

Bamboo DiRT (Digital Research Tools) http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ "Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."

iBread Crumbs [still in beta] http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/ http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/developer/interactive-breadcrumbs "Interactive BreadCrumbs was created by two Cal State Fullerton entrepreneur students... They created this site in the hopes that students and researchers worldwide will be able to save and share their research with others in a fast and easy way."

Fact Monster  http://www.factmonster.com/  This is from Information Please. It is aimed at children ages 6-14.

The National Archives: Research http://www.archives.gov/research/index.html Not all information is free, but it’s worth looking for the topic in which you are interested.

Library Homepage & Research Links [Las Positas College] http://www.laspositascollege.edu/library/ A few links are specific to their college, but most of it is available to anyone.

The Ethical Researcher  http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/ethical/

 Research 101  http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/basic00.htm

 The Basics of Library Research  http://library.gmu.edu/mudge/Dox/basics.html

 Basic Steps in the Research Process  http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/

 Doing Research on the Web (Class Zone)  http://www.classzone.com/books/research_guide/page_build.cfm?content=web_research&state=none

 Research, Write, Publish | Online Research: Research Basics  http://educate.intel.com/en/TechnologyLiteracy/Describe/ResearchWritePublish/OnlineResearch/ResearchBasics/

 Online Research | Research Basics: Vocabulary http://educate.intel.com/en/TechnologyLiteracy/Describe/ResearchWritePublish/OnlineResearch/ResearchBasics/RB_Vocabulary.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Research Basics <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://library.sullivan.edu/Research/researchbas.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Research Methods: The Lab <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/res_meth/login.html <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In the Lab you will learn about the five different Research methods, practice what you have learned, and then take a post-test to confirm your knowledge.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Welcome to the Research Observatory @ UWE [University of the West of England] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://ro.uwe.ac.uk/RenderPages/RenderHomePage.aspx <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> “The Research Observatory at UWE (RO) is an online research teaching and learning resource developed by the e-learning development unit, in collaboration with academic and professional colleagues at UWE. It is intended to help you to find appropriate learning materials to help you in your research studies.”

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Research Method <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://www.statpac.com/surveys/research-methods.htm

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/

LiveRef: A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services by Gerry McKiernan [|http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm]

PubMed Central (PMC) http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ “The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.”

Academic Support Services [TRIO Program at Eastern Washington University] http://asc.ewu.edu/

Diingo - Highlight and Share the Web! http://www.diigo.com/ “Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.” It allows you to highlight text.

SLIS Facility in the Second Life World http://students.libsci.sc.edu/secondlife/ This is what the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at USC are calling Davis 2.0 (They are located in the Davis Building.) “…SLIS has been experimenting with a virtual world environment. A simulated library has been under development to help students adapt Web technology into practice.”

PEW Reports: Online Activities & Pursuits - Information Searches That Solve Problems http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/231/report_display.asp

Bob Jensen's Links to Electronic Literature http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

The Nation’s Report Card: State Profiles http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/ “The profiles provide easy access to all NAEP [National Assessment of Educational Progress] data for participating states and links to the most recent state report cards for all available subjects. You may sort and compare state data in the State Comparisons tool.”

Teacher Policy Research http://www.teacherpolicyresearch.org/ This is a “research partnership between the University at Albany and Stanford University that examines teachers, issues in teaching and teacher education to provide education policy makers with current, useful data to inform their policy decisions.”

Mission Possible — Successful Online Research Classroom http://educator.answers.com/main/mp.jsp Link to the video and lesson plans related to the video.

Research Right http://educator.answers.com/main/research_center.jsp “To reinforce the skills necessary to conduct thorough and organized research, we have prepared this Research Right guide and its accompanying worksheets. Instead of searching through numerous sites and jotting down random notes, students can use [it] as a tool to help them focus and organize information that is pertinent to their final product.”

Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3450&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Reference Extract: The Power of Search meets the Credibility of Librarians http://referencextract.org/?page_id=3 This project is “envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, [it] will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe. Users will enter a search term and get results weighted towards sites most often referred to by librarians…”

Britannica Online http://search.eb.com/

WordWeb http://wordweb.info/free/ This is a free “one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia.” Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/

SchoolRooms http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/schoolrooms-/ This is a “new K-12 online multimedia discovery place for South Carolina students, teachers, parents and librarians! SchoolRooms provides resources, built around school curriculum, to assist students with homework and school projects. Search your library’s catalog, educational websites, and selected DISCUS databases all at once.” It is open to any “resident of South Carolina or a student enrolled in a South Carolina school.” You must register for a free account.

South Carolina State Library http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov They are located at 1430 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211 - Online Resources http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/index.php?option=com_alphacontent&Itemid=834 - Talking Book Services http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=25&Itemid=797 - Services to Students and Educators http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/services-to-students-and-educators/

Internet Public Library []

Research and Writing for High School and College Students []

Internet Public Library – KidSpace []

Internet Public Library – TeenSpace []

Citing References in Your Paper [] This is from the Writer’s Handbook from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. It includes an area about Paraphrasing and Quoting Sources at []

Diigo http://www.diigo.com/ “Diigo provides a browser add-on that can really improve your research productivity. As you read on the web, instead of just bookmarking, you can highlight portions of web pages that are of particular interest to you. You can also attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages.”

Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ “Europeana, Europe's digital library, museum and archive, will … be bringing you digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe’s greatest collections.

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- WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia survives research test http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm “The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.”

Reliable Sources [Wikipedia] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

The Fate of Expertise after WIKIPEDIA by Lawrence M. Sanger []

Guide to Searching the Internet by Dean Sherwin (PDF) http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/MakeUseOf.com_-_Searching.pdf

** STATISTICAL INFORMATION **
US Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) http://nces.ed.gov/ Three popular areas in the NCES site are the following: - <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">Tables & Figures http://nces.ed.gov/quicktables/ - <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">Fast Facts http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/ - <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">Kids Zone (just for fun!) http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp?flash=true

Statistical Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html From the University of Michigan

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">WISE – Web Interface for Statistics Education <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://wise.cgu.edu/ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> ‘Our goal is to provide students and teachers of statistics easy access to a wide range of resources that are freely available on the Internet.”

Gallup (search) [|http://www.gallup.com/search/�99�<span] style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">

Gallup Polls: Education and Youth http://www.gallup.com/poll/anaylses/educaYouth/

Digital Classroom http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html US National Archives & Records Administration

Statistical Software Tutorials http://www.utexas.edu/its-archive/rc/tutorials/index.html There are a few choices for tutorials for SPSS and SAS. All of their tutorials are stored in the UT archives.

HLM for Windows http://www.utexas.edu/its-archive/rc/tutorials/stat/hlm/

Statistics Every Writer Should Know http://nilesonline.com/stats/ “A simple guide to understanding basic statistics, for journalists and other writers who might not know math.”

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INTERVIEWS (AND TRANSCRIPTION)
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Interviews <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/intrview.php

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Handbook of interview research: context & method by Gubrium and Holstein <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2234/01/revs088.html

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Transcribing the Interview <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://ro.uwe.ac.uk/RenderPages/RenderLearningObject.aspx?Context=7&Area=1&Room=3&Constellation=25&LearningObject=127

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Transcription Resources <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://kakali.org/transresources.html

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Research Tools Workshop <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://interoperability.ucsd.edu/docs/researchtools.html

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> General Guidelines for conducting interviews <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://www.managementhelp.org/evaluatn/intrview.htm

Research Randomizer http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm This site also includes a tutorial that shows examples “of how Research Randomizer can be used for random sampling and random assignment.”

Sample Size Calculator http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm#ssneeded This is “presented as a public service of Creative Research Systems. You can use it to determine how many people you need to interview in order to get results that reflect the target population as precisely as needed. You can also find the level of precision you have in an existing sample.”

Survey Research Aids http://www.surveysystem.com/resource.htm This site gives a Sample Size Calculator and information about Significance in Statistics & Surveys, Survey Design, and Correlation.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Express Scribe [freeware] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">PowerPlayer Audio Transcription Software <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.tvps.com/Products/ECS-PowerPlayer-Audio-Transcription-Software-Kit__ECS-PP-fslsh-INUSB.aspx

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Transana - <span class="headertext1" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Qualitative analysis software for video and audio data <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://www.transana.org/ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> “**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">Transana ** <span class="body" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. [It] lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips.”

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Easy Transcriber [shareware] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://rbytes.net/software/easy-transcriber-review/

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Audio Dictation Master [$15 shareware] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://rbytes.net/software/audio-dictation-master-review/

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Dictation Buddy and Transcription Buddy <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> http://www.transcriptionbuddy.com/TB_main.htm <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Dictation Buddy “records telephone conversations or standard microphone or Line-In input and saves them as a compressed sound file that you can re-play, edit, email, or publish.” Transcription Buddy uses “a PC to transcribe audio files …. Control audio playback, while you transcribe. Playback may be controlled with an available foot pedal or through the keyboard.”

History of Speech Recognition and Transcription Software http://www.dragon-medical-transcription.com/historyspeechrecognition.html

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**RESEARCH INFORMATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA**
'EducationFullText and ERIC databases' search on Wilson Web http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/advancedsearch/advanced_search.jhtml;hwwilsonid=3AYY1AVCZYQRJQA3DIMSFF4ADUNGIIV0?prod=EDUFT,ERIC

From Marilee Birchfield, the person who maintains LibGuides @ USC: Education Resources (http://guides.library.sc.edu/education):

"You can now search the EducationFullText and ERIC databases simultaneously without having to use GamecockPowerSearch through the EducationFullText interface." The link is also found on the USC Libraries Electronic Resources page.

USC Office of Technology Commercialization (Intellectual Property) http://ip.research.sc.edu/

Investigator Toolbox [USC] http://www.sc.edu/researchdev/investigator_toolbox.shtml USC’s Office of Research and Economic Development offers this to “help you find, obtain and manage your sponsored funding”

Library Services & Resources for Distance Education (USC) http://www.sc.edu.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/library/pubserv/delibserv.html This site has links to the USC system’s library catalogs and databases as well as other useful information for off-campus students. Note that there are special instructions for remote access through EZproxy, which requires a USC ID.

Resources for Distance Education http://www.sc.edu.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/library/pubserv/disted.html

Resources for Distance Education http://www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/destudents.html The ‘Student Resources’ and the ‘Library Services’ areas are particularly useful for students taking classes at a distance.

Student Resources for Distance Education http://www.sc.edu.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/library/pubserv/destudents.html

Library Services for Distance Education Students… (USC) http://www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/distedlibs.html This page contains information about accessing the University library resources and information about the libraries on the regional campuses.

// Accessing USC Library Resources from Off-Campus // // If you are off campus, you will be prompted to use the EZ Proxy Login to access many of the USC Library resources. You must have a current USC ID. You will be prompted to enter the last 4 digits of your ID and your last name. Be sure to read the information about using the EZ Proxy system on the Frequently Asked Questions page. //

Off Campus Access to the University Libraries Electronic Resources (EZproxy) http://www.sc.edu.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/library/proxy/proxy.html

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">EZ Proxy Login (USC ID required) https://pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/login?url=http://www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/delibserv.html

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">EZ Proxy Frequently Asked Questions http://www.sc.edu/library/ezproxyfaq.html

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">University of South Carolina System Libraries http://www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/distedlibs.html This page contains general information about accessing the University library resources and information about the libraries on the regional campuses.

[Thomas Cooper Library] Resources http://www.sc.edu/library/resrollover.html This has links to resources at the USC Library. One of the most used areas is the link to Style Manuals and Citation Guides at http://www.sc.edu/library/styleresources.html Another area, Electronic Indexes at http://www.sc.edu/library/ei.html has links to electronic resources and instructions for off-campus access to electronic resources.

Electronic Resources http://delphi.tcl.sc.edu/indexdb/er.php

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Electronic Indexes Help Guide http://www.sc.edu/library/eihelp.html

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt;">Electronic Indexes - Top Ten Indexes http://www.sc.edu/library/topindex.html Two popular search tools are Expanded Academic ASAP and InfoTrac OneFile. These links will take uou to another web site called Discus to do your search.

Research Notes [electronic newsletter from USC] http://spar.research.sc.edu/PDF/ipNewsletter.pdf

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">(USC) Ask a Librarian http://www.sc.edu/library/ask.html There are four ways to ask a question: phone, online chat, instant messaging (IM), and e-mail.

(USC) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Scan and Deliver [] "This service is available at no charge to faculty members at any University of South Carolina campus; USC-Columbia graduate students; USC-Columbia undergraduate students; and USC-Columbia staff members. Items held in paper format (not electronic) by Thomas Cooper Library, the Business Library, the Music Library, the Math Library, and the Library Annex are available through this service."

Research and Graduate Education (University of South Carolina) [] One of the links is to Research Assistance []

Office of Undergraduate Research []

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