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• Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog (updated version of "The survivor's guide to library research"), by William B. Badke (illustrated HTML at twu.ca)

• Frascati Manual 2002: Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research and Experimental Development (Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002) (PDF with commentary at oecdbookshop.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Grey Matters: A Guide to Collaborative Research with Seniors (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2010), by Nancy J. Marlett and Claudia Emes, contrib. by Penny Jennett, Bob Stebbins, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Dooley, and Marianne Rogerson (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Carmen Martinez-Vargas (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery (c1991), by J. E. Oliver (PDF with commentary at Cornell)
• Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier, and Geoffrey Rockwell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications (2018), by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger (PDF at renewconsultants.com)
• Research Methods Knowledge Base (early electronic edition), by William M. Trochim (HTML with commentary at socialresearchmethods.net)
• Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment, by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, and Tonyia J. Tidline (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

• No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008) (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)

• Journal of Scientific Exploration (older issues are free to access) (partial serial archives)

• Journal of Open Humanities Data (2015-) (full serial archives)

• BMC Medical Research Methodology (2001-) (full serial archives)

• Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), by Stephen Pinfield (PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis)
• Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023), ed. by Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick, and Will Cross (PDF at ala.org)

• Data Feminism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Principles of Experimental Design for Art Conservation Research (1992), by Terry J. Reedy and Chandra L. Reedy (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Statistical Analysis in Art Conservation Research (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1988), by Terry J. Reedy and Chandra L. Reedy (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Altmetrics for Librarians: 100+ Tips, Tricks, and Examples (London: Altmetric, c2016), by Stacy Konkiel, Natalia Madjarevic, and Amy Rees (PDF with commentary at Figshare)
• Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian's Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015), by Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt (PDF with commentary at ala.org)

• The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (c2011), ed. by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• A New Biology for the 21st Century (c2009), by National Research Council Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Brain and Cognition: Some New Technologies (1989), ed. by Daniel Druckman and John I. Lacey (page images at NAP)

• American Revolutions in the Digital Age (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2024), ed. by Nora Slonimsky, Mark Boonshoft, and Ben Wright
  • Epub and PDF with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• American Revolutions in the Digital Age (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2024), ed. by Nora Slonimsky, Mark Boonshoft, and Ben Wright
  • Epub and PDF with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), ed. by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Mélanie Méthot (PDF with commentary at University of Calgary)

• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Jennifer Edmond (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, by Hermann Ebbinghaus, trans. by Henry A. Ruger and Clara E. Bussenius (HTML at York)

• Essentials of Behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis (third edition; Boston et al.: McGraw-Hill, c2008), by Robert Rosenthal and Ralph L. Rosnow (PDF with commentary at Temple)

• Research Methods in Psychology (second Canadian edition; 2015), by Paul C. Price, Rajiv Jhangiani, and I-Chant A. Chiang (multiple formats with commentary at bccampus.ca)

• Brain and Cognition: Some New Technologies (1989), ed. by Daniel Druckman and John I. Lacey (page images at NAP)

• National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technology for Scientific Research (1993), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data (2019), by Lam Thuy Vo (HTML with commentary at socialdata.site)
• Conducting Research Surveys via E-Mail and the Web (2002), by Matthias Schonlau, Ronald D. Fricker, and Marc N. Elliott (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), ed. by Kath Browne and Catherine J. Nash (PDF with commentary at Taylor and Francis)

• What are Qualitative Research Ethics? (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Rose Wiles (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)

• The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (1993), ed. by Constance F. Citro and Graham Kalton (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Community-Led Research: Walking New Pathways Together (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2021), ed. by Victoria Rawlings, James L. Flexner, and Lynette Riley (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Community-Led Research: Walking New Pathways Together (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2021), ed. by Victoria Rawlings, James L. Flexner, and Lynette Riley (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Community-Led Research: Walking New Pathways Together (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2021), ed. by Victoria Rawlings, James L. Flexner, and Lynette Riley (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Nancy D. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2021), by Miguel Escobar (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research (electronic edition; current version Columbus: Ohio State University, ca. 2018), by Cheryl Meredith Lowry (HTML at Pressbooks)

• Experimental Statistics (National Bureau of Standard handbook #91; Washington: GPO, 1963), by Mary Gibbons Natrella (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frascati Manual 2002: Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research and Experimental Development (Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002) (PDF with commentary at oecdbookshop.org)

• Measuring Research: A Guide to Research Evaluation Frameworks and Tools (2013), by Susan Guthrie, Watu Wamae, Stephanie Diepeveen, Steven Wooding, and Jonathan Grant (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

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