Nursing Research Links

Conzilla – The Concept Browser

This JAVA based, open source, versatile knowledge management tool allows you to create context maps to brainstorm conceptual frameworks, organize and share work and other brainstorming activities.

DeepaMehta

Another JAVA based, open source knowledge management system that allows you to organize pieces of your research as concept maps, share files with others, and supports various phases of the research process.

DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals

A collection of open access databases available free on the Internet.

Exploring Online Research Methods in a Virtual Training Environment

Excellent step by step overview of the process of using the online environment for research.

Games for Health from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation

Exciting initiatives to promote the use of computer games for educating youth about health and wellness.

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

National US initiative from the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Overview of QSR NUD*IST Software

My overview site on using this popular qualitative analysis software.

Lime Surveyor

This is an open source PHP script based survey development software that can be freely used to develop web based surveys for research and viewer input.

PhpESP – Easy Survey Package

This is an open source PHP script that can be uploaded to a web server to provide online survey development capabilities.

Snap Survey Software

This mobile interviewing software facilitates face-to-face interviews by allowing the researcher to unobtrusively use the PDA as a research instrument to collect answers to the interview questions.

SPSS

This software has been considered the premier non/parametric data analysis software for several decades. Once available only by main frame computer, PC versions are now available. Examples of statistics that can easily be calculated: Chi Squares, Correlation, T Tests, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).

Stanford Web Credibility Project

Our research in Web credibility is part of a larger project: to understand how computers can change what people think and do, an area called captology.

Vassar Statistical Computation Center

A truly impressive site featuring various java based calculators for analyzing quantitative data using Chi Squares, t tests, correlation and regression, z tests, and analysis of variance. Also provides theory related to these statistical tests from Professor Richard Lowry of Vassar College.