SAGE Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods is an award-winning tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them. SAGE Research Methods' taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms links to authoritative content, including:
- Over 640 books
- Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks
- The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series
- Two major works collating a selection of journal articles
- Newly commissioned videos
The Methods Map is an exciting and innovative visualization tool that can be used to discover relationships between methods, to discover new methods and to find content related to them. Underpinning the Methods Map is a new taxonomy of social science research methods, developed by SAGE, and containing over 1,400 unique terms.
The Methods Lists are lists of content within the product that our users have selected and want to share through this product. You can create your own lists, either for private use, or to share with others on the site.
The Little Green Books are our famous series, Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. This entire series is available on SAGE Research Methods, with additional tools across the site to filter your search on just these titles.
Software requirements
Any Adobe Digital Editions compatible device, including iOS, Android, Nook, and Sony Reader. (Individual pages saved as PDFs can be read on Kindles.) Printing from the website requires registration.
Indexing and linking
- Citation-level indexing in Summon
- Title-level linking through Get VText
Rights
Downloadable?
Yes as PDFs, except for the Little Green Books.
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Coverage
972-present (coverage varies by journal).
Date
January 31, 2013
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Mobile interface available, see description for link.
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Resource provides Get VText links to access full text.
Resource provides open access publishing opportunities and open access publications.
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