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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.

Key Features
Provides up-to-date knowledge of research methods and their applications
Provides a coherent and precise account of current research themes and structures through chapters written by authors who are experts in their fields
Helps students and researchers understand the range of quantitative and qualitative approaches available for research, as well as how to make practical use of them
Provides many illustrations from projects in which authors have been involved, to enhance understanding
Emphasises the nexus between formulation of research question and choice of research methodology
Enables new researchers to understand the implications of their planning decisions
Readership
Research students, researchers, academics involved in teaching research, information professionals in higher education, research, and corporate libraries working alongside researchers, or carrying out independent research

Table of 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