The resources listed below are starting point, meant to guide you in choosing a research methodology.
General
Open access:
- Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices (2012) by Anol Bhattacherjee (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Research Methods Knowledge Base created by Prof William M.K. Trochim
Not open access:
- Connaway, & Radford, M. L. (2021). Research methods in library and information science (Seventh edition.). Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Qualitative Research
Not open access:
- Creswell, D. J. W., & Poth, C. N. (2017). Qualitative Inquiry And Research Design (4th ed. edition). Sage Publications.
- Patton, M. (2014). Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice (4th edition). Sage Publications.
- Saldana, J. (2021). THE CODING MANUAL FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCHERS (4th edition). Sage Publications.
- Denzin, N., & Lincoln, Y. (2017). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research (5th edition). Sage Publications.