This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the use of internet technology in research. It provides full accounts of the different ways in which online resources can help with research projects in any area of the social sciences or humanities along with useful hints and tips as to how you can make the internet work for you.
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'I would recommend this book to first year students in particular because I think that it would be helpful to them and there is nothing else that does quite the same job.' - Wyn Grant, University of Warwick
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I would recommend this book to first year students in particular because I think that it would be helpful to them and there is nothing else that does quite the same job.' - Wyn Grant, University of Warwick
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction: Why Bother with this Book? |
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What is the Internet and What are its Most useful Research Tools? |
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Search Strategies, Engines and Directories |
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Key Sources of Online Information |
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Using the Internet to Generate Individualised Datasets |
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Is Your Study Amenable to Online Implementation? |
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129 | (16) |
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145 | (15) |
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Writing-up Your Research Paper or Dissertation |
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185 | (10) |
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Appendix A: Internet Country Codes |
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Appendix B: Top-level Domain Organisational Codes |
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Appendix C: Domain Codes for Individual US States |
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Appendix D: Writing Tips |
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Appendix E: Generating Diagrams and charts |
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Appendix F: Selected Online Resources |
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Glossary |
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Index |
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DAVID DOLOWITZ is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Liverpool, UK. He specializes in comparative public and social policy.
STEVE BUCKLER was sometime Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.
FIONNGHUALA SWEENEY is Director of Studies and Lecturer in Comparative American Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK.