A RESEARCH FIELD GUIDE

Start with your research question.

Find a tool for your next research task. Compare sources, practical limits and methods in English and Chinese.

131 resources · Last edited 2026-10-29 · Task-focused; linked sources reviewed

What are you working on?

Explore the research pathway →

Three workflows to start with

01

Screen a review →

Prioritize reading while keeping inclusion decisions and stopping rules auditable.

02

Work with interviews →

Move from a local transcript to human-led coding, with an explicit boundary around cloud services.

03

Analyse Chinese text →

Choose a measurable task, establish a human reference set, and inspect errors before scaling up.

From researchers and libraries

Explore discovery sources →

Public teaching materials, librarian comparisons and individual research notes.

Editorial starting points

All resources →

A selection across tasks, not a performance ranking. Check each entry’s review status.

ASReview

Open-source active learning for systematic-review screening; the model re-ranks records as you label them.

Screen papers · LiteratureSource checked

EDSL (Expected Parrot)

Python package for designing surveys and experiments that are answered by LLM “agents” with assigned personas, across many models.

Surveys & experiments · Text & data analysisSource checked

cntext (Chinese text analysis for social science)

Python library from the Chinese text-as-data community (textdata.cn) with Chinese sentiment dictionaries, word embeddings, dictionary expansion, semantic projection and an LLM annotation helper.

Text & data analysisSource checked

noScribe: local interview transcription

Free desktop app by a sociologist that transcribes interviews entirely on your computer with Whisper, identifies speakers, and includes an editor for corrections; about 60 languages.

Interviews & codingSource checked

Oxford LLMs open course

Five modules move from text representations to retrieval and research agents.

Research agents · Text & data analysisSource checked

Evaluating research agents

A research report organizes agent evaluation around methods, real-world settings and the people doing the evaluation.

Research agents · Text & data analysisSource checked