This site provides an overview of some of the different aspects of survey and questionnaire design. A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using various types of surveys and questions is included.
The Combat Poverty Agency/Social Inclusion Division Library is a specialist social policy research library. It is open to all and its services are free of charge. Includes extensive collection on subjects including Irish and international social policy, poverty and social exclusion, rural development, urban studies, regeneration, housing, health inequality, educational disadvantage, community development, voluntary sector management, and research methods.
A website devoted to the history of film, television and digital media & features original articles by leading critics, authors, and scholars; a calendar that highlights major retrospectives, festivals, and gallery exhibitions at venues around the world; and a regularly updated guide to online research resources
Register & Read includes approximately 1,200 journals from more than 700 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. This includes content from the first volume and issue published for these journals through a recent year (generally 3-5 years ago). Free read-online access (must register for a myJSTOR account).
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868 and remains the foremost society in Great Britain promoting and defending the scholarly study of the past.
As the government's national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, the National Archives hold over 1,000 years of the UK’s records for everyone to discover and use.
First published in January 1886, The English Historical Review (EHR) is the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. It deals not only with British history, but also with almost all aspects of European and world history since the classical era
Promotes the study of history and an appreciation of the importance of the past among academics and the general public, in the UK and internationally, and provides institutional support and individual leadership for this broad historical community.
The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann, founded in 1785, is Ireland’s academy for the sciences, humanities and social sciences. The Academy provides expert advice, manages research projects, publishes books and journals and sustains a library.
CAIN: Northern Ireland Conflict, Politics, and Society. Information on 'the troubles'. This site contains information and source material on the Troubles in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also information on politics in the region and Northern Ireland society. New material is added regularly to the site and there are also frequent updates.