Developing and designing the Methods Map has been a major piece of development work on the SRMO project. And we are not finished yet! The work to devise the taxonomy that underpins the Methods Map has been led by our editor, Patrick Brindle, with input from members of our Editorial Board. We currently have over […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue Reading
Here’s another video that we have produced to explain why SAGE started to develop SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) and to give a very introductory overview of the product. Follow the product development by joining our Methodspace Group here.
Categories: Video
Continue Reading
All of SAGE’s popular Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series (more commonly known as the Little Green Books) will be available on SAGE Research Methods Online, with options to filter and search just within the series. Our marketing team has just produced a short video with some information about this series of titles – […]
Categories: SAGE Posts, Tools and Resources
Continue Reading
I’ve spent this past weekend in Washington DC at the American Library Association’s summer conference. It’s one of our biggest library shows and it was the first one that we’ve used to start promoting SRMO ahead of the launch. The response was really fantastic. I was miked up for a couple of demos at the […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue ReadingWe’ve been doing alot of work this week thinking about search and synonyms for SRMO. There will be 3 core search functions on the product: the Quick Search, the Advanced Search and the search of our visualisation tool: “Methods Map”. Our goal is that, when you search for a term, you will receive all of […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue Reading
We are currently in the midst of the technical development of SAGE Research Methods Online. Every two weeks iFactory (our technology partner) are delivering a new iteration of the product for us to review and test. We’re hoping to keep the development to 10 iterations in total, and we’ve just sent back the testing results […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue ReadingA few weeks ago I did a presentation at the STM Beyond Books seminar, talking about Methodspace and SAGE Research Methods Online and the work we carried out to understand how social scientists perform research online. It was recorded and you can check out the video here.
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue Reading
Last Wednesday I spent the day at Loyola Marymount University at a SCELC vendor day. We had 6 classroom sessions with libraries in the SCELC consortia where I shared some of the latest screen designs for SRMO. Here’s a photo of one of the sessions – a very smiley group this one was – apologies […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue ReadingI’m very excited to announce our SRMO Editorial Board – we are supported in this development by a very distinguished number of scholars and I would like to thank them again for their participationg. The members of our Editorial Board are: Alan Bryman, University of Leicester, Arlene Fink, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Graham […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue Reading
We had quite a bit of feedback that the some of the page designs were looking too blue. Despite our need to keep up with SAGE branding we’ve added some more colour to the designs – here’s a new look for the search results page that iFactory has just updated. I think this is now […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue ReadingPatrick Brindle, our Research Methods editor in the UK has been leading on the development of the ontology that will underpin the product, and will be visualised in the Methods Map feature that we are designing at the moment. Patrick has just received a group of reviews back from some of our key authors on […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue Reading
We’ve had some updated designs in from iFactory this week. I’m really happy with how these are looking! The challenge has been to include all the functionality that we heard would be valuable when looking for literature on research methods, but at the same time still keeping the pages as clean and intuitive as possible. […]
Categories: SAGE Posts
Continue Reading