The following represents an evolving list of free to use resources in support of your research and writing activity, from citation and data management, to data analysis and presentation.
Citation Management Software
- Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/reference-management/reference-manager Owned by Elsevier. Mendeley enables you to store, organise, and cite resource material. Its USP is the ability to import, organise and annotate PDFs.
- Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/ Zotero enables you to store, organise, and cite resource materials across a diverse range of sources.
Data Standards
- FAIR Principles: https://www.go-fair.org/ A collective framework seeking to maximize the reuse of existing resources, maximizes interoperability, and accelerates convergence on standards and technologies. The FAIR acronym stands for data and services which are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
Cleaning Your Data
- OpenRefine: https://openrefine.org/ Previously known as GoogleRefine, OpenRefine enables the cleaning and transforming of messy data into useable data sets. It looks like a spreadsheet but operates like a database, enabling the visualisation and manipulation of large quantities of data.
Qualitative Data Analysis Software
- Excel or Google Forms (requires a Google Account) A guide on “How to analyze open-ended questions in 5 steps [template included]”: https://www.hotjar.com/blog/analyze-open-ended-questions/
- Taguette: https://www.taguette.org/ Free, open-source tool for qualitative data analysis
Quantitative Data Analysis Software
- JASP: https://jasp-stats.org/ JASP is a free alternative to SPSS. The website also provides free textbooks on using JASP.
- R: https://www.r-project.org/ R is a comprehensive statistical package and is free to use. Requires some coding experience. An NHS-R YouTube channel featuring training videos is available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwM-3tg_-Pbx8hKO78q5EA/videos
- PSPP: https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ A free menu driven alternative to SPSS but with reduced functionality.
- Excel ‘Data Analysis’: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/analyze-data-in-excel-3223aab8-f543-4fda-85ed-76bb0295ffc4 Data Analysis is an add-on function within Excel available via the Data tab. It can be used to do some basic analyses such as t-tests.
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