QualPage

QualPage is arguably the oldest website of internet resources for qualitative researchers. It began in the early 1990s as a Gopher site developed by Judy Norris, who was then on the nursing faculty at the University of Alberta in Canada. She initially designed the site for students in her qualitative research classes, but found that other qualitative researchers wanted to link it to their own websites. In 1995, she redesigned QualPage as a complex collection of web pages pointing to the variety of internet resources available for qualitative researchers. In preparation for her retirement, she transferred the ownership and management of QualPage in 2003 to Judith Preissle and to the faculty at the University of Georgia, where the Qualitative Interest Group contributes to its maintenance and development.

The QualPage website maintains a page of announcements of conferences, workshops, and other events of [Page 712]interest to qualitative researchers around the globe. The remaining pages organize internet resources in occasionally overlapping categories: recent books, disciplinary sites in areas like anthropology and sociology, discussion forums, electronic journals, sites on various research methods, multimedia resources, professional organizations related to qualitative research, links to proceedings and online papers, sites on philosophical sources relevant to qualitative research, publishers who regularly produce material on qualitative research, resources for computer programs used by qualitative researchers including links to the major providers, and a collection of other resources. Visitors to the page are invited to contribute new material through an email address maintained for that purpose: qualres@uga.edu. The pages on proceedings and online papers and on theses and reports have links to material already accessible to the public on the internet so material with legally restricted circulation, such as much copyright material, is avoided. Norris's original vision of the page as a site where researchers freely share and circulate their materials and resources remains the goal of QualPage.

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