Web & software resources
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Scientific databases and search engines
- Pedagogy subject portal (FIS search engine) (opens in a new window)
- ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center (opens in a new window)
- WISO: Economics and Social Sciences (registration via Shibboleth required top right) (opens in a new window)
- PSYINDEXplus tests (via WISO; allows you to search for existing scales and test procedures) (opens in a new window)
- Web of Science / Social Sciences Citation Index (opens in a new window)
- LDBB - Vocational training literature database (opens in a new window)
- ProQuest - Dissertation and theses database (opens in a new window)
- Google Scholar - for general literature research of scientific documents (opens in a new window)
- Compilation of social science items and scales (ZIS) (opens in a new window)
- Open Test Archive (repository for open access tests: questionnaires) (opens in a new window)
- PubMed (opens in a new window)
Further resources for research
Scientific work
- Information portal on empirical research methods at the PH Freiburg (sorted and viewed Open Educational Resources) (opens in a new window)
- Methods portal of the University of Leipzig (opens in a new window)
- Decision tree of statistical test procedures (opens in a new window)
- Academic Phrasebank (phrasing suggestions for academic writing) (opens in a new window)
Software
- LimeSurvey - possibility to create and conduct online-based surveys (free of charge for university members) (opens in a new window)
- RStudio and R - Statistical tools (open source, freely available, quasi-standard in the social and behavioral sciences) (opens in a new window)
- JAMOVI - statistics package (open source, freely available, based on R) (opens in a new window)
- MAXQDA - software package for the analysis of qualitative data material, e.g. interviews (a campus license is available for university members and can therefore be used free of charge) (opens in a new window)
- Zotero - literature management tool (open source, freely available) (opens in a new window)
- OpenRefine - tool for data processing, e.g. for unorganized data material (open source, freely available) (opens in a new window)
- EQ-Web-Sort - survey tool for Q-studies (open source, freely available) (opens in a new window)