The European landscape of qualitative social research archives: Methodological and practical issues

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Corti, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data archiving; Data sharing; European landscape; Infrastructure; Methodology; Qualidata; Qualitative data; Reusing data; Secondary analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053518146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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