Full Description
Research Methods: Information, Systems, and Contexts, Second Edition, presents up-to-date guidance on how to teach research methods to graduate students and professionals working in information management, information science, librarianship, archives, and records and information systems. It provides a coherent and precise account of current research themes and structures, giving students guidance, appreciation of the scope of research paradigms, and the consequences of specific courses of action. Each of these valuable sections will help users determine the relevance of particular approaches to their own questions. The book presents academics who teach research and information professionals who carry out research with new resources and guidance on lesser-known research paradigms.
Contents
Section I Foundations and Framing
1. Research concepts
2. The fundamentals of research planning
3. Information research: Patterns and practice
4. Archival and recordkeeping research: Past, present and future
5. The methodological landscape: Information systems and knowledge management
Section II Research Methods
6. Survey designs
7. Case study research in information systems
8. Action research: Theory and practice
9. Constructivist grounded theory: A 21st century research methodology
10. Bibliometric research
11. Design-science research
12. Researching history
13. Ethnographic research
14. Experimental research
Section III Research Techniques
15. Populations and samples
16. Questionnaires, individual interviews and focus group interviews
17. Observation
18. Quantitative data analysis
19. Qualitative data analysis
Section IV Research Practice and Communication
20. Ethical research practices
21. Managing research data
22. Research writing and dissemination
Section V Information Research: Reflections on Past and Future
23. The future of information research
