The Facet LIS Textbook Collection Research Methods in Information 2nd Edition by Alison Jane Pickard ISBN 1783303204 978-1783303205

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ISBN 10: 1783303204 

ISBN 13: 978-1783303205

Author: Alison Jane Pickard

The long-awaited 2nd edition of this best-selling research methods handbook is fully updated and includes brand new coverage of online research methods and techniques, mixed methodology and qualitative analysis.

This edition includes two new contributed chapters: Professor Julie McLeod, Sue Childs and Elizabeth Lomas focus on research data management, applying evidence from the recent JISC funded ‘DATUM’ project; Dr Andrew Shenton examines strategies for analysing existing documents.

The first to focus entirely on the needs of the information and communications community, this handbook guides the would-be researcher through the variety of possibilities open to them under the heading ‘research’ and provides students with the confidence to embark on their dissertations. The focus here is on the ‘doing’ and although the philosophy and theory of research is explored to provide context, this is essentially a practical exploration of the whole research process with each chapter fully supported by examples and exercises tried and tested over a whole teaching career.

Table of contents: 

PART 1: STARTING THE RESEARCH PROCESS
1 Major research paradigms
2 Introduction
3 Positivist research
4 Postpositivism and mixed methods research (MMR)
5 Interpretivist research
6 Qualitative or quantitative methodology?
7 Qualitative research design
8 Quantitative research design
9 Mixed methods research
10 Criteria for judging research
11 Establishing trustworthiness in qualitative research
12 Establishing rigour in quantitative research
13 Summary
14 Practical exercise
15 Suggested further reading
16 Reviewing literature
17 Introduction
18 Information searching and retrieval
19 Evaluation
20 Critical analysis
21 Synthesizing the research: developing a theoretical framework
22 Summary
23 Practical exercise
24 Suggested further reading
25 Defining the research
26 Introduction
27 Designing a conceptual framework
28 The research hypothesis
29 Research aims and objectives
30 Summary
31 Practical exercise
32 Suggested further reading
33 The research proposal
34 Why write a proposal?
35 Structure of a research proposal
36 The proposal as a research framework
37 Summary
38 Practical exercise
39 Suggested further reading
40 Sampling
41 Why sample?
42 Population and sample
43 Probability sampling
44 Purposive sampling
45 Summary
46 Practical exercise
47 Suggested further reading
48 Research Data Management – Julie McLeod, Sue Childs and Elizabeth Lomas
49 Introduction – research data and its management challenges
50 Why is research data management important?
51 The research process, data lifecycles and research data management
52 How do I manage my research data?
53 Summary
54 Practical exercise
55 Websites referred to in this chapter
56 Suggested further reading
57 Ethics in research
58 Introduction
59 Gaining access to the field
60 Informed consent
61 Anonymity or confidentiality?
62 Protecting participants
63 Ethics online
64 Summary
65 Practical exercise
66 Suggested further reading
67 Case studies
68 Introduction
69 Phases in case study research
70 Summary
71 Practical exercise
72 Suggested further reading
73 Surveys
74 Introduction
75 Descriptive surveys
76 Explanatory surveys
77 The survey process
78 Summary
79 Practical exercise
80 Suggested further reading
81 Experimental research
82 Introduction
83 The nature of causality
84 The true experiment
85 Quasi-experimental design: the ‘effects study’
86 Summary
87 Practical exercise
88 Suggested further reading
89 Usability testing
90 Introduction
91 Quasi-experimental usability studies
92 Cognitive walkthroughs
93 Heuristic evaluation
94 Summary
95 Practical exercise
96 Suggested further reading
97 Ethnography
98 Introduction
99 Components of ethnographic study
100 Virtual ethnography – ‘netnography’
101 Ethics in ethnography
102 Summary
103 Practical exercise
104 Suggested further reading
105 Delphi study
106 Introduction
107 The Delphi process
108 Rules of a Delphi study
109 Modifying a Delphi study
110 Delphi studies and new technologies
111 Summary
112 Practical exercise
113 Suggested further reading
114 Action research
115 Introduction
116 The action research cycle
117 Trustworthiness in action research
118 Action research as reflective practice
119 Summary
120 Practical exercise
121 Suggested further reading
122 Historical research
123 Introduction
124 The research process
125 Summary
126 Practical exercise
127 Suggested further reading
128 Grounded theory: method or analysis?
129 Introduction
130 Defining grounded theory
131 Summary
132 Practical exercise
133 Suggested further reading

PART 3: DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
134 Interviews
135 Introduction
136 What is the purpose of an interview?
137 The seven stages of the interview process
138 Online interviewing
139 Summary
140 Practical exercise
141 Suggested further reading
142 Questionnaires
143 Introduction
144 Designing questionnaires
145 Developing questions
146 Scale items
147 Forms of questionnaire
148 Summary
149 Practical exercise
150 Suggested further reading
151 Observation
152 Introduction
153 The role of the observer
154 Recording what you see; going in with signposts
155 Summary
156 Practical exercise
157 Suggested further reading
158 Diaries
159 Introduction
160 The purpose of diaries in research
161 Participant diaries
162 The researcher’s log
163 Structure and recording
164 Summary
165 Practical exercise
166 Suggested further reading
167 Focus groups
168 Introduction
169 Purpose of a focus group
170 Organizing a focus group
171 Online focus groups
172 Summary
173 Practical exercise
174 Suggested further reading
175 Analysis of existing, externally created material – Andrew K. Shenton
176 Introduction
177 The different supporting roles of documents
178 LIS research principally based on documents
179 Citation analysis
180 Logs associated with computer software and the use of ICT
181 Summary
182 Practical exercise
183 Suggested further reading

PART 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH PRESENTATION
184 Qualitative analysis
185 Introduction
186 Phenomenological strategies
187 Ethnographic methods
188 Narrative and discourse analysis
189 Constant comparative analysis
190 Memo writing
191 Presenting qualitative findings
192 Software for qualitative analysis
193 Summary
194 Practical exercise
195 Suggested further reading
196 Quantitative analysis
197 Introduction
198 Levels of measurement
199 Frequency distribution
200 Cross-tabulation
201 Measures of central tendency
202 Measures of dispersion
203 Correlation
204 Displaying data
205 Testing for statistical significance
206 Software for quantitative analysis
207 Summary
208 Practical exercise
209 Suggested further reading
210 Presenting the research
211 Introduction
212 Planning the final report
213 Form and structure
214 Summary
215 Suggested further reading

PART 5: GLOSSARY AND REFERENCES
216 Glossary of research terms
217 References

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