Research methods are qualitative or quantitative tools for acquiring and analysing material.
Research Methods Guidebook (in Finnish) is the Finnish Social Science Data Archive's freely accessible learning environment for quantitative and qualitative research methods in the social and behavioural sciences.
The Research Methods Guidebook includes a quantitative research method learning environment open for all. Administrator and provider: Finnish Social Science Data Archive (Currently available only in Finnish).
The Research Methods Guidebook includes a qualitative research method learning environment open for all. Administrator and provider: Finnish Social Science Data Archive (Currently available only in Finnish).
Methods for humanists (currently only in Finnish) is a guide for choosing research methods in a research process, compiled by the University of Jyväskylä's Faculty of Humanities. Includes a Mapping Research Methods section with terminology in English. Suitable also for other fields of science. The links in the guide direct you to the collections of the University of Jyväskylä, and therefore you need to check the availability of literature separately from UEF Primo.
Sage Research Methods contains method literature, full text reference books and articles, research examples and video material. The material is available for the University of Eastern Finland staff and students.
Covidence is an online tool that can assist with the screening of citations, abstracts and full text studies for systematic and other complex reviews. It also supports risk of bias assessment, data extraction and the exporting of data and reference information in CSV format or to Excel.
University of Eastern Finland (UEF) students and staff have access to Covidence.
- If you have not yet signed up to Covidence with your UEF (@uef.fi / @student.uef.fi) email address you need to create a new account: Institutional subscriber information (and more).
- If you already have an user account associated with your UEF university email address, go to the Covidence Sign-in page, select Sign in with SSO (Single-Sign-On) and enter your UEF email address.
Need some help getting started?
- Upcoming webinars and a recordings of previous webinars
- Covidence Help Center
- Downloadable resources
- Getting started with Covidence videos
More information: information.services@uef.fi
Before writing a systematic review or other similar review, it is a good idea to register the review protocol before starting work. Registering a protocol helps to improve transparency and reduces duplication of work. Many journal publishers now require a registered protocol.
General guidance is available in the PRISMA-P checklist.
Various registration platforms:
- Prospero (only systematic reviews)
- The Cochrane Library (only systematic reviews)
- Research registry (systematic reviews, meta-analysis)
- Inplasy (systematic reviews, scoping-reviews)
- OSF - Open Science Framework (all study designs)
- Protocols (all study designs)
- Figshare (all study designs)
- Zenodo (all study designs)
See also:
- Pieper, D., Rombey, T. Where to prospectively register a systematic review. Syst Rev 11, 8 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01877-1; (table 1 of the article: Characteristics of the identified registers)
- The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of interventions
