Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data.

TAMS stands for Text Analysis Markup System. It is a convention for identifying themes in texts (web pages, interviews, field notes). It was designed for use in ethnographic and discourse research.

Scribe 4 is an optimally flexible data analysis program that permits users to label events in live observations or in QuickTime movies, summarize event timings, and play back labeled events in customized configurations.

Here you'll find many useful resources for conducting qualitative inquiry. Of particular note is the extensive Bibliography of qualitative research resources.

An online journal dedicated to qualitative research since 1990. This page links to various qualitative research resources.

The site has many resources about qualitative research and is regularly updated. It has a broad range of news and links so that you can find a variety of information on qualitative research.

This is a free wiki that allows you to create and augment an annotated bibliography of great qualitative books and articles.

Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. Whether it's your meeting minutes, interviews, lectures, home movies, dictation, speeches, or your favorite TV show, Transcriva can help you transcribe them all. You do the typing, Transcriva takes care of

A peer-reviewed, on-line monthly journal devoted to writing and discussion of and about qualitative, critical, action, and collaborative inquiry and research.

Qualitative data analysis software for the Macintosh platform.

This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods. Resources include: (a) The Knowledge BaseAn online hypert

Simple but handy Mac player/word processor for transcribing interviews

Qualitative research is a method of inquiry appropriated in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts.[1] Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of

Qualitative research is a vast and complex area of methodology that can easily take up whole textbooks on its own. The purpose of this section is to introduce you to the idea of qualitative research (and how it is related to quantitative research) and giv

An overview of mixed-methods research and data analysis by the National Science Foundation.

CAT is a free service of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), and hosted by the University Center for Social and Urban Research, at the University of Pittsburgh, and QDAP-UMass, in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Efficiently code raw text data sets; Annotate coding with shared memos; Manage team coding permissions via the Web; Create unlimited collaborator sub-accounts; Assign multiple coders to specific tasks; Easily measure inter-rater reliability; Adjudicate valid & invalid coder decisions; Report validity by dataset, code...

The Qualitative Research Special Interest Group, QRSIG, established in 1987, was created to provide a space within AERA for the discussion of philosophical, ethical, and methodological issues in Qualitative Research as well as to seek cutting edge approaches to qualitative research methods. The QRSIG strives to legitimize all nontraditional forms of research, and to support other SIG’s and Divisions with similar interests and goals, including an emphasis on ways that qualitative research may contribute to reducing inequality and injustice in schools and society