Here is a newly discovered blog with lots of useful articles about practical statistics.
GENERAL STATISTICS
Getting Started: General advice on statistics for a thesis
Preliminaries: Normality and transformations
Scales: Scale construction; Scale construction for psychological tests; Computing Ability Scales; Checking for accuracy; Multiple choice tests; Scoring a multiple choice test in SPSS
Mediation: Getting Started; Issues with causal inference
Correlations: two [...]
digitalresearchtools
This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you’re looking for. We provide a [...]
Where to Find a Librarian 24/7 | studenthacks.org
If you ever have any research trouble, you should seriously consider contacting a librarian.
They can cut your research time in half – and help you find exactly what you need.
And you never need to visit a library to talk [...]
Directory of open access journals
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3145 journals in the directory. Currently 1014 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 172243 articles are [...]
ORE Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web, web based training for Reference Service from Ohio Library Council
OLC provides Ohio Reference Excellence on the Web to increase access to ORE training and improve the quality of reference service in Ohio! Six self-paced modules cover the reference process, with resource links, exercises, [...]
MIT Lecture Browser
This site provides free access to a searchable database of lectures
from MIT departments. These cover all subject areas of the arts,
humanities, sciences and social sciences providing free access to audio
and video recordings of academic lectures along with transcripts of the
content. details on technical and copyright information is provided [...]
LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more.
LibrarySpot is a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable [...]
Intute: Social Sciences – Full record details for 2collab
2collab is a free social bookmarking site from publisher Elsevier. It aims to encourage academic researchers to create and share bookmarks of key internet resources (articles, journals, web resources) in private or public groups. Registration is required to use all the web 2.0 features. However it [...]
Foundation Series: The Difference Between Correlation and Causality | Tyner Blain
One of the most common mistakes people make when looking at data is to jump to conclusions about the data. We all live in a world of cause and effect. It is only natural that when we see data that appears to show cause [...]
The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners | OEDb
Lifelong learning means that individuals can have access to and are willing to participate in ongoing, not recurrent, education. This “learning to learn” philosophy can begin with toddlers and it can extend throughout a person’s life with branches that can extend into various [...]
Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can’t Do Without | Scholastici.us: Student Productivity At Its Finest
You may not know this, but there are actually a number of great references available to you that isn’t Wikipedia. Now, don’t get me wrong – I love Wikipedia, too. Whenever I first begin a project I almost always go [...]
eprintweb – Home
eprintweb.org is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology, and consists of e-print records which can be browsed and searched.
The contents of eprintweb.org are provided by arXiv, which is operated and funded by Cornell University Library, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and is also partially [...]
Virtual Learning Resources Center
The mission of the Virtual Learning Resources Center is to index thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects.
It has a meta-search engine that includes in its results information gleaned [...]
The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You’ve Never Heard Of | OEDb
Research can be a time consuming and sometimes tedious task. How can you make it easier for yourself? While there is no complete substitute for a good old-fashioned trip to the library, you can find a wide variety of information with many research tools. [...]
Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines
Search engines that help you find whatever you are looking for. This is a collection of helpful resources to assist you in [...]
CrossEngine is the new name for the Mr Sapo meta search engine. It is similar in functionality to TurboScout and Trovando in that it has a search box at the top of the screen with a list of search engines that you can use below that. Simply type in your search, click on the engine that [...]
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.” Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). [...]
Martindale’s Reference Desk is a huge collection of links on a number of different topics. This should be a good starting place for basic research on the web.
Martindale’s ‘The Reference Desk’ – International Art, Business, Science [...]
This is an interesting compilation of various data, information, concept, strategy, metaphor, and compound visualization techniques.
A Periodic Table of [...]
au·to·di·dact: n. a self-taught person
This is a great site with a huge list of self-learning resources (all free of course). If there is a topic you wish to learn about you can probably find it here!
Online [...]
