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Accounts on the OBSSR e-Learning site enable you to save notes as you read the contents of the site.  Notes are a way for you to save a spot on the site with your own comments and title applied to it.  Think of it as putting a sticky note paper in a book to remember a place and leave a thought or two of your own for later reference.

e-Source Book

Welcome to the OBSSR e-Source online resource for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. In this digital anthology you will find a series of chapters covering a wide range of topics related to BSS research design and implementation.

The complete set of chapters and authors are listed here. Use the navigation bar on the left or the pull-down menu from the "e-Source Book" tab at the top of the screen to visit any chapter in the book.

  1. Determining Appropriate Methods
    John B. McKinlay, PhD
  2. The Concept of ‘Science’ in the Social Sciences
    Jeffrey Coulter, PhD
  3. Theory Development and Construction
    Stephen Turner, PhD
  4. Concepts in Sample Surveys
    Sarah M. Nusser, PhD and Michael D. Larsen, PhD
  5. Principles of Social Survey Data Collection
    Stephen Woodland
  6. Administrative Data Systems in Research on Health and Aging
    Vincent Mor, PhD
  7. A Reporting Checklist for Observational Studies
    Richard Berk, PhD
  8. Using Qualitative Methods to Study Health and Illness
    David Silverman, PhD
  9. Conversation Analysis as an Approach to the Medical Encounter
    John Heritage, PhD
  10. Integrating Software and Qualitative Analysis
    Eben Weitzman, PhD
  11. Clinical Trials
    Duolao Wang, PhD and Ameet Bakhai, MD, MRCP
  12. Cluster Unit Randomized Trials
    Allan Donner, PhD
  13. Multilevel Modeling: A Conceptual and Methodological Overview
    S. V. Subramanian, PhD
  14. (In development, coming soon) Operationalizing, Measuring and Defining Psychosocial Variables
    Keith Widaman, PhD
  15. (In development, coming soon) Ensuring Conceptual and Cultural Equivalence
  16. From Quality of Life to Patient-Reported Outcomes
    Donald L. Patrick, PhD and Gordon Guyatt, PhD