Some Books about Non-Traditional Research Methods
Digital Methods for Social Science by Call Number: Hatcher Graduate H61 .D546 2016ISBN: 9781137453655Publication Date: 2016-03-29
Text Mining: a guidebook for the social sciences by Call Number: Hatcher Graduate H61.3 .I395 2017ISBN: 9781483369341Publication Date: 2016-05-25
What Is Online Research? by Call Number: Hatcher Graduate ZA4228 .H66 2012ISBN: 9781849665247Publication Date: 2011-12-06
Digital Ethnography by Call Number: Hatcher Graduate GN307.8 .D754 2016ISBN: 9781473902381Publication Date: 2015-11-04
Video As Method by Call Number: Hatcher Graduate H62.2 .H38 2016ISBN: 9780190222079Publication Date: 2016-02-18
Accessing Social Media Content
See the Social Media Research Guide for data sources and information on social media research methods
Accessing News Content for Text Mining
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowMany newspapers go back to 1980s. It's easy to export up to 1000 articles to Google Drive or Dropbox
- Find More Newspapers from the News Research GuideFind sources for historical, international and local news
Finding Government Information for Text Analysis
- GovInfo Bulk Data RepositoryBulk data from the US Government Publishing Office. Includes xml files on bills, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, United States Government Manual, House Rules and Manual, Public and Private Laws, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Supreme Court Decisions, Statutes at Large,
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust contains hundreds of thousands of scanned US federal government documents. Also, the HathiTrust Research Center would be a good resource for large-scale analysis of government documents
Finding Spatial Data
See the Geospatial Data Research Guide for finding geospatial data.
Contact the Clark Library at clarklibrary@umich.edu for help finding and using geospatial data.
Some Books about Web Scraping
Automated Data Collection with R: a practical guide to Web scraping and text mining by ISBN: 9781118834787Publication Date: 2014-10-24
Learn new programs
- O'Reilly Safari Learning Platform: Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowOnline access to 40,000+ technical books, videos, tutorials, case studies, etc. from O'Reilly, Pearson, and other publishers.
Support for Data Visualization
The Library offers support for data visualization at the Clark Library, Digital Media Commons, and Taubman Health Sciences Library. See the Library Data Visualization webpage for more information.
Support for GIS
The Library's Spatial and Numeric Data Services (SAND) provides support for GIS at the Clark Library and SAND North in the Art and Architecture Building.
The Guide to ArcGIS resources on campus provides information on how to find for-credit courses, open workshops and online modules on ArcGIS
GIS and Social Science Research
Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences by ISBN: 9780761928737Publication Date: 2005-08-04
