Organizational Links

• ESRC Research Methods Programme
• Loughborough University
• Loughborough's Discourse and Rhetoric Group
• Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University
• Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere
  We will co-ordinate our comparative research with a research group at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Academic Institutions and Persons

• CAQDAS Networking Project
  The CAQDAS Networking Project at the University of Surrey, another project funded by the ESRC Methods Programme, "aims to provide practical support, training and information in the use of a range of software programs which have been designed to assist qualitative data analysis."
• Tools For Teaching Qualitative Methods
  This site is an outcome of the conference on Teaching Qualitative Methods Using Qualitative Software hosted in April 2003 by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and QSR, the developer of NVivo and N6. "Created for teachers of qualitative research methods, it provides an online resource center intended to support teachers in their advancement of qualitative research in any and all disciplines."
• TAPoR
  Large Research Project at several Canadian Universities, which intends to become a "gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation."
• UCREL
  University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language.

Mailing Lists

• Mailing lists on statistical mathodologies and related software
  Comprehensive listing of mailing lists on statistical methdologies.
• Mailing lists on "Qualitative Research"
• QUALRS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
  Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences.
• QUAL-SOFTWARE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
  Mailing list on CAQDAS.
• METHODS
  Medium-traffic Listserv on sociological research methdology.
• qual-L
  "Qual-L is a low-traffic electronic mailing list: a forum for discussing the qualitative research generally."
• QUALMETH
  "CQRM administers a private subscription, moderated listserv list for political scientists and other scholars interested in discussing, critiquing and applying qualitative methods."
•  GIR-L
  German Internet Research List.
• HUSITA
  Formerly called CUSSN, this is the list for the Computer Use in Social Services Network.

Commercial Organizations (in alphabetical order)

•   qualitative-sozialforschung.de
  Webzine mit aktuellen Beiträgen, Rezensionen, Links, Downloads rund um Fragen qualitativer Forschung.
•  Quarc
  Quarc offers training seminars in Nud*ist, ATLAS.ti, The Ethnograph, and winMAX in Berlin, FR Germany. Check out their informative comparison of these four programs and the hands-on advice for using this software.
•  Research Talk
  Research Talk is a consultancy company from Bohemia (the one on Long Island, NY), which holds training sessions on ATLAS.ti, ETHNOGRAPH, HyperResearch, and MAXqda.
•  SdG Associates
  SdG Associates, based in Berlin, Germany, offers training in several CAQDAS, namely Atlas.ti, Decision Explorer, Nud*ist, N4 Classic and N5, NVIVO and winMAX. Their workshops are held in London, England, and Boston, MA. There are useful few useful links to discussion lists on their page, but the most intriguing feature of their site is probably the online advise, on which program to choose.
•  text-mining.org
  Text mining resources offered by the consultancy firm Media Style.