Answered By: Allison McDermott
Last Updated: Oct 11, 2024     Views: 461

For more information on the difference between a qualitative and quantitative study and how to identify them in your research watch this video on Identifying and Finding Quantitative and Qualitative Research.

Research Guide

We have a guide to research methods that should help you find articles that report the findings of qualitative and quantitative research, as well as articles that discuss how to conduct qualitative and quantitative research.

Click here or the image below to access the Research Methods Guide

Image of the Research Methods Research Guide.

There's information under the Searching for Articles tab on searching using different research-related search terms, as well as a list of faculty-selected articles under Suggested Articles to help you get started with your research.

Searching in the library

For more information on searching for qualitative or quantitative studies in the library see this tip sheet on Original Research Studies.

SAGE Research Methods

We have an entire database that is dedicated to exploring research methodology - SAGE Research Methods.

To get to SAGE Research Methods

1. Select Find Articles & More from the red navigation bar near the top of the library homepage.  

Yellow arrow pointing to the Find Articles & More link on the library homepage.

2. Select Databases A-Z.

Yellow highlight over Databases A-Z link.

3. Either click on the S from the alphabetical list on the top of the page or scroll down to the S section.

Jump to section in Databases A-Z with the S highlighted in yellow.

4. There will be two results for SAGE databases, click on the SAGE Research Methods link

Link to SAGE Research Methods.

If you still have questions you can chat in real-time with a librarian here.

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