Library Guides: Digital Methods: Tools & Resources

JCU supplied software and help

Find Nvivo, statistical analysis software and more Scroll down the page for software available to JCU students.

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Journals @JCU Library

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery From Data This journal includes: Scalable and effective algorithms for data mining and data warehousing, mining data streams, mining multi-media data, mining high-dimensional data, mining text and more.
Data Science and Engineering This journal responds to the remarkable change in the focus of information technology development from CPU-intensive computation to data-intensive computation, where the effective application of data, especially big data, becomes vital.
Digital Humanities Quarterly This is an open-access digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities This is an international, peer reviewed journal which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities
Frontiers in Digital Humanities This open access journal publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research from Digital History to Big Data, providing a community platform for the Humanities in the digital age
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Specific areas to be covered are as follows: Fields and Areas of Knowledge and Data Engineering including: Knowledge and data engineering tools and techniques; Data management methodologies & Data communications and more.
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities This is an open access, peer reviewed journal that is concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities, with tools provided by computing such as data visualisation, information retrieval, statistics, text mining by publishing scholarly work beyond the traditional humanities.

Choose your digital research tools

DiRT: Digital Research Tools The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
GLAM Workbench Here you’ll find a collection of tools, tutorials, examples, and hacks to help you work with data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (the GLAM sector). The primary focus is Australia and New Zealand, but new collections are being added all the time.

JSTOR text-mining

JSTOR Text Analyser
Use your own documents (e.g. a journal article, something you wrote, a scanned page from a textbook) to search for similar articles and books in JSTOR database