Qualitative Research

Tools and tips to help you plan for, and manage your data.

QDR offers a series of web pages addressing key topics in managing research data: Planning Data Management, Data Management Plan Checklist, Preparing Data for Deposit, Formatting data

QDR curates, stores, preserves, publishes, and enables the download of digital data generated through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences. The repository develops and disseminates guidance for managing, sharing, citing, and reusing qualitative data, and contributes to the generation of common standards for doing so. QDR’s overarching goals are to make sharing qualitative data customary in the social sciences, to broaden access to social science data, and to strengthen qualitative and multi-method research.

ICPSR welcomes and encourages deposits of digital data. Depositing data into ICPSR is free. Deposits are made using a secure data deposit form to describe the data collection and upload content. Deposits should include all data and documentation necessary to independently read and interpret the data collection.

List authored by Open Access Directory, hosted by School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.

A repository for environmental data.

A repository for social science data (a collaboration between the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Harvard University).

A general-purpose repository in the Sciences.

A repository for archaeological and related data.

The Qualitative Data Repository's guide for de-identification of qualitative data. Advice for muting direct and indirect identifiers, and guidelines for the process and documenting the process you use.

Advice and examples of ways to de-identify qualitative data before deposit.