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Welcome to the Case Studies guide. Use this guide to discover case study resources for business, policy, and the sciences available to you through Mason Libraries, both in our libraries and online.

Learn about Case Studies: Tools to help you find and write case studies

Find Case Studies: Multidisciplinary resources for locating cases for business, economics, and the sciences

Writing Guide: Case Studies

From Colorado State University- "This guide examines case studies, a form of qualitative descriptive research that is used to look at individuals, a small group of participants, or a group as a whole. Researchers collect data about participants using participant and direct observations, interviews, protocols, tests, examinations of records, and collections of writing samples. Starting with a definition of the case study, the guide moves to a brief history of this research method. Using several well documented case studies, the guide then looks at applications and methods including data collection and analysis. A discussion of ways to handle validity, reliability"

You can locate case studies through the Mason Libraries Catalog, as well as Mason Libraries research databases.To locate case studies in books, search by keywords: "case stud*" and words describing your topic. Example:

• "case stud*" and "computer security" 
• "case stud*" and "autism"
• "case stud*" and "food additive"

Search Business Source Complete for Case Studies. This search is limited to case studies results, simply add a company or topic to this search result.