Research Tools
Some of the tools and services listed here are only available for staff and research students of the Faculty of Business and Law. If you cannot access restricted links please contact your supervisor or the Research Manager to gain access.
Software
The University provides access to a range of software products to support research, which are listed on the Deakin Software Library page. These include statistical software products such as SPSS, Amos and QPR Nvivo, and Teaching and Learning software products such as EndNote.
Qualtrics is an online survey research package. It can be used for both sophisticated (randomisation designs, choice analysis, etc.) and simple online surveys. It comes with training modules and good facilities to manage email lists and survey requests. It outputs data in a variety of formats, including fully labelled SPSS .sav files and Excel. It can also produce simple reports with graphics. Our licence does not cover the recruitment of respondents, but Qualtrics can use any list you upload or can survey respondents send from a survey panel. It is available to all Faculty staff and HDR students. Each person can set up multiple surveys.
Get started with these simple instructions [100KB PDF].
Introduction to Qualtrics [830KB PDF] by Associate Professor David Bednall.
Access to this service is made possible by the Centre for Sustainable and Responsible Organisations - CSaRO.
SAS is a business analytics software product licenced to the Faculty of Business and Law, for use by its staff and enrolled students. The software may be installed on any hardware owned by or under the control of the Faculty. Under certain conditions, access is also available for home use. Details about SAS.
Instructions for installation of SAS [450KB PDF] by Dr Peter Gilbert.
Library resources
Deakin's library offers extensive support to research staff and students, including the assistance of
- International Monetary Fund eLibrary is an important tool for anyone who analyses or researches economic and financial topics of any kind. IMF eLibrary delivers information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalisation, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction and much more. Deakin Library has arranged trial access.
- Beck-online is a German-language database that contains German statutes, cases, court decisions, journals and commentaries.
- OECD iLibrary includes all publications and datasets released by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1988.
- Book Citation Index in Web of Science connects a library's book collection to powerful new discovery tools, giving researchers the ability to quickly and easily identify and access the most relevant books. It allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the information most relevant to their work within one platform.
- Cabell Directories has been to help professors, graduate students and researchers to publish their manuscripts in academic journals. Also, Cabell's seeks to provide information on publication guidelines, type of review, number of external review, acceptance rate, ISSN, submission process, and more.
- Cambridge Journals Digital Archive is a backfile collection provides access to over 630,000 articles from more than 200 journals across the humanities and social sciences and science and technology fields.
