Research skills

• ACA Research Methods - links to research and communication issues, including research methods, business communication, communication education technology, social science and the media.
  
  
• Action research resources - action research and evaluation online course, also many online resource papers, links to external resources, mailing lists and conference abstracts.
  
  
• British Educational Research Association - links and events, publications, free to members.
  
  
• CARN - Collaborative Action Research Network - conference reports, discussion lists, publications and links to other websites.
  
  
• Centre for Applied Social Surveys - UK - newsletter, research, articles, links for social research, including interviewing.
  
  
• Columbia Guide to Online Style - Extracts from the main publication, including elements of citation, documenting sources in the text, preparing the bibilographic material.
  
  
• Doing Library Research - constructing your research paper, from University of California Santa Cruz.
  
  
• APA Style of Citation - links and advice including writing reports in the style of the American Psychological Association.
  
  
• Ethical guidelines of the British Educational Research Association - standards for educational researchers.
  
  
• Eurydice - information network of databases on education systems, exams and qualifications in Europe, includes glossaries, news and international links.
  
  
• Finding Data on the Internet - a Journalist's Guide - subject links are mainly from the US.
  
  
• Finding information on the Internet - includes search strategies and tools, evaluating web pages, style sheets for evaluating internet and electronic resources, glossary of internet and web jargon, from University of California, Berkeley.
  
  
• Free Pint - very active and useful community of information researchers on a wide range of topics, with newsletter by email, information on seminars and publications and company search.
  
  
• Guidelines for carrying out action research - huge list of links to help with action research projects.
  
  
• IndyMedia UK - a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues, also links to other national and world independent media centres, online debates and articles, international news, offline newsheets and events.
  
  
• InfoPro Alliance - tools, examples and templates to support information professionals, also good links to international associations, publications and research tools from Factiva.com
  
  
• JournalismNet - using the Internet for Journalists, using Canadian and US resources.
  
  
• Legal Research Using the Internet - article with mainly US links and useful strategies.
  
  
• LibrarySpot - huge range of specialist and general libraries, reference sites, articles, lists, library news and monthly newsletter by email.
  
  
• NFER (National Foundation for Educational Research) - news by email, projects, conferences, articles, web links CERUK (Current Educational research in the UK, database online), also currently hosts the Education Management Information Exchange.
  
  
• Radical Statistics Group - promotes use of statistics to inform not to drive policies, online articles and information on publications, search by subjects and by journal date, news, links and discussion group.
  
  
• Research Strategy - seven steps of the research process, from Cornell University.
  
  
• Researchpaper - US site for school-related research, includes large writing centre with information on style and presentation, planning, proof-reading, non-sexist language, writing for jobsearch and discussion area.
  
  
• Researchville - over 700 databases.
  
  
• Study Aids - helpful list of other sites online including Education World Research Toolbox and sections on Copyright, Citation and Plagiarism, Undergraduate Study Aids and Graduate Study Aids, mainly American.
  
  
• The Virtual Chase - a research site for legal professionals includes articles, research guides, online teaching tools, resources for internet trainers, free newsfeed.

• Internet information skills for economists - free online tutorial from University of Bristol.
  
  
• Internet information skills for education - free online tutorial from Institute of Education, University of London.
  
  
• Internet information skills for government - free online tutorial from London School of Economics.
  
  
• Internet information skills for politicians - free online tutorial from London School of Economics.
  
  
• Internet information skills for social policy - free online tutorial from National Institute for Social Work.
  
  
• Internet information skills for social workers - free online tutorial from National Institute for Social Work.
  
  
• ITrain - free internet training materials, including module on search engines, available in English, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
  
  
• Pandia - includes Goalgetter Web Search Tutorial, also optimization tips and links to other search engine sites.
  
  
• Search Engine Tutorials - online tutorials and links to other search engine sites and resources.
  
  
• Student Guide to WWW Research - helpful tutorial written for 1st year US students on evaluating and using the internet for research including an analysis of different types of web pages.
  
  
• The Virtual Chase - a research site for legal professionals with online teaching tools including teaching internet research skills and evaluating the quality of information on the internet, also articles, research guides, resources for internet trainers and free newsfeed.
  
  
• Virtual Training Suite - free online tutorials to improve Internet information literacy and IT skills for FE, HE students, staff and professionals, devised across a wide range of disciplines including health and life sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, law, engineering, maths, physical sciences, from University of Bristol. The FE tutorials are are shorter, more graphical and less academic and mapped to part of the UK Key Skills specifications (Levels 1-3).