SAGE Research Methods Online : Video, Cases, & Datasets – trial extended to 14 March 2021

Trial access to the Video, Cases, and Datasets collections on the SAGE Research Methods Online platform has been extended to 14 March 2021.

Access is enabled via the Cambridge Libraries Eresources A-Z or directly via this link.

For a nifty neat introduction to the video, cases & datasets see the LibGuide on SRMO and the guide’s individual pages on the video, cases and datasets. There is a User guide and content lists available here.

Please tell us what you think about these resources by completing the feedback form here. Thank you.

SAGE Research Methods Online : Video, Cases, & Datasets – trial access

Trial access has been enabled for Cambridge University to the Video, Cases, and Datasets collections on the SAGE Research Methods Online platform until 28 February 2021.

Access is enabled via any device accessing via a VPN connection to the University Data Network (see here for VPN service from the UIS) or via the link provided here or via the Cambridge University Libraries A-Z link on this page. UPDATE – SAGE has enabled access via Shibboleth successfully.

For a nifty neat introduction to the video, cases & datasets see the LibGuide on SRMO and the guide’s individual pages on the video, cases and datasets. There is a User guide and content lists available here.

Please tell us what you think about these resources by completing the feedback form here. Thank you.

New eresource : SAGE Research Methods Foundations

The Sage Research Methods Foundations platform is available to use following a trial of access.

SAGE Research Methods Foundations provides a concise introduction to methods and research terms for those who are new to research in general or to that particular method. While a general search can provide an overwhelming number of results, SAGE Research Methods Foundations offers a targeted list of entries to guide users through the content. The navigation menu puts the entry in context, so users can easily find more general topics related to a method or continue on to more specific sub-topics. Each entry will give users a general understanding of the topic and help them focus their search for additional content if they wish to dive deeper.

The hundreds of entries—written by a renowned international roster of methods experts—cover qualitative and quantitative methods, key research studies, and profiles of important researchers. Foundation Entries cover the history, development, and debates around the major topics in research methods, and each Foundation Entry is related to supportive entries, as well as Pioneers in each field. These biographical entries evaluate the lasting contributions of both classic figures and lesser-known researchers whose work had gone unrecognized, including female and ethnic minority scholars.

Content & Features

• Dynamic site architecture guides users through content
• Entries are grouped into thematic series
• Newly commissioned content covers hundreds of methods and research concepts, including key studies and profiles of key figures in research
• What’s Next tool guides users through a natural progression through concepts based on what they’ve already viewed
• Content is connected to the Methods Map

 

Sage Research Methods and Sage Video Data Science : access until 19th July 2020

We have trial access to a number of Sage Research Methods eresources along with Sage Video Data Science until 19th July 2020.

Please send your feedback using the online form.

SAGE Research Methods Cases & Cases 2

SAGE Research Methods Medicine & Health

SAGE Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 1100 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves.  They explain why the researchers chose the methods they did, how they overcame problems in their research and what they might have done differently with hindsight: the realities of research that are missing from journal articles and textbooks. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. They can be used as a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular method and how it is applied in real research, or as inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project.

SAGE Research Methods Datasets

SAGE Research Methods Datasets 2

SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets and instructional guides that give students a chance to learn data analysis by practicing themselves. This bank of topical, engaging practice datasets, indexed by method and data type, are optimized to use in classroom exercises or in exam papers, saving faculty members hours spent sourcing and cleaning data themselves. The decisions researchers make when analyzing data can seem like a black box for students—through practicing analysis using real data from SAGE Research Methods Datasets, students can see how analytic decisions are made, helping them to become confident researchers.

SAGE Research Methods Video

SAGE Research Methods Video Practical Research and Academic Skills

SAGE Video Data Science

SAGE Research Methods Video contains more than 125 hours of video, including tutorials, case study videos, expert interviews, and more, covering the entire research methods and statistics curriculum. The videos can help to bring methods to life: instead of reading about how to conduct a focus group, students can watch one in action. Stimulate class discussions by assigning videos for pre-class viewing, or use a clip in class to provide an alternative viewpoint. Videos can also be embedded into course management systems for exam preparation. Through these videos, 60% of which are exclusive to SAGE, students can find extra help and support to guide them through every step of their research project and succeed in their research methods course.

SAGE Research Methods Foundations : access until 19th July 2020

The Sage Research Methods Foundations platform is available to use until 19th July 2020.

Send feedback using the online form.

SAGE Research Methods Foundations provides a concise introduction to methods and research terms for those who are new to research in general or to that particular method. While a general search can provide an overwhelming number of results, SAGE Research Methods Foundations offers a targeted list of entries to guide users through the content. The navigation menu puts the entry in context, so users can easily find more general topics related to a method or continue on to more specific sub-topics. Each entry will give users a general understanding of the topic and help them focus their search for additional content if they wish to dive deeper.

The hundreds of entries—written by a renowned international roster of methods experts—cover qualitative and quantitative methods, key research studies, and profiles of important researchers. Foundation Entries cover the history, development, and debates around the major topics in research methods, and each Foundation Entry is related to supportive entries, as well as Pioneers in each field. These biographical entries evaluate the lasting contributions of both classic figures and lesser-known researchers whose work had gone unrecognized, including female and ethnic minority scholars.

Content & Features

• Dynamic site architecture guides users through content
• Entries are grouped into thematic series
• Newly commissioned content covers hundreds of methods and research concepts, including key studies and profiles of key figures in research
• What’s Next tool guides users through a natural progression through concepts based on what they’ve already viewed
• Content is connected to the Methods Map

 

SAGE Research Methods Online: new platform

SAGE Research Methods Online is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects.

SAGE Research Methods Online is now available at its new platform here:

http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://methods.sagepub.com/

The benefits of the new platform are:

• A unified platform for text and video content, providing users with a multimedia research experience
• A fully responsive site that will work well with all mobile phones and tablet devices
• Improved discoverability of content, both from within the platform and from external sources
  • SAGE has improved the internal search, meaning better and more relevant results. The Methods Map has been improved, allowing users to explore method concepts with greater ease. The browse options have been enhanced to align with user needs – allowing browse by discipline, content type, and method topic.
• A focus on modern, enjoyable design for students, faculty, researchers and librarians, based upon extensive user-testing

Links to SAGE Research Methods Online

SAGE Research Methods Online is linked from the eresources@cambridge A-Z index page and all the eresources@cambridge A-Z subject pages and from the LibGuides Databases A-Z.  Links to the individual titles in SAGE Research Methods Online are included in iDiscover.  (Just now some links are included to the SRMO Datasets content that we do not subscribe currently – these links are in the process of being removed.)

User profiles set up on the old platform

• Your personal profile will be migrated across to the new site. When you first visit the new site, click ‘Profile’ in the top right hand corner of the page, and click ‘Reset you password’. Follow the instructions to reset your password. Once this is done you will be able to login.

Method Lists on the new site

• All your lists will be migrated across. They will now be called Reading Lists, but will contain all the content they contained on the current site.

Saved Searches on the new site

• These will not be available. The new site performs searches in a different manner to the current site. This means that saved searches cannot be migrated.

More about SAGE Research Methods Online 

Links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. A “methods map” facilitates finding content on methods. SAGE Research Methods contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and “Little Blue Book” series. Includes a collection of case studies of real social research.

If you have any questions or problems with access, please contact ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk.  Thank you

Sage Research Methods Online – Datasets trial

Trial access is now available to the Datasets content in Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO) until 29 February 2016.

Access the trial via this link.

Please send feedback on this trial to: library@educ.cam.ac.uk

SRM Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets that can be used to support both teaching and independent learning of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods used in the social sciences.   You can browse the datasets (accessible via the content tab) or find them through accessing related content on the SRMO platform.

SAGE Research Methods Online

New on eresources@cambridge A-Z : SAGE Research Methods Online

This is the place to go for researchers, faculty, and students carrying out research projects.  An innovative online tool created to help you to design research projects, understand methods or identify new methods, conduct research, and write up your findings.

“It’s not just about psychologists, or sociologists or political scientists.  Everybody who does research, in fact anybody hopefully who does research will find a huge amount of value in the content SRMO has and therefore should be as excited as I am” —

SRMO is designed to answer methods questions that arise during the various steps of the research process, including the literature search, review, research design, data collection, analysis, and write up.  To help you start using SRMO please view the instructional video below which will help you get the most out of the resource.

A Training event launching Sage Research Methods Online will be held at the Education Faculty on Thursday 16 January 2014 from 10:30 am-12:30 pm

To register to attend this event please sign up on the Librarians in Training website.

Access SAGE Research Methods Online via the eresources@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

Check out the LibGuide for SRMO.

We are working just now on including records for the ebooks in SRMO in our discovery tool LibrarySearch and in our online catalogue Newton.