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Popular sources for accessing research data sets for dissertations or class projects

Find Qualitative Data

Large Data Archives

Focused Collections

Case Studies

  • SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online aka SRMO: Includes a searchable collection of case studies of real social research, commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice.

​Find a Repository

  • re3data: Registry of research data repositories. Search for repositories by broad topic area to identify a data archive that contains qualitative information.

Find Research Studies

For help finding qualitative data in published research studies or articles, contact your subject librarian.

More about Qualitative Methods

Qualitative research is a methodology that can be applied to textual or multimedia data involving a personal examination of the data by the researcher to find meaning.  

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