Advancement in academia typically depends upon Scientific publishing. The more you publish, the better the first job, the higher the raise, and the faster the promotion. Sadly only 3% of publications come from developing countries, despite the fact that 27% of the scientists live in developing countries and 80% of the population.

In many countries bright young people want to do research and publish, have to publish, but they do not. A primary reason for this is Stataphobia which is the fear of research design and statistics, and not having access to people who can help. Eighty percent of all rejected articles are due to poor research methods.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library of Alexandria) is pleased to offer the Research Methods Library of Alexandria. This is one of the largest and comprehensive collections of research methods. It represents a one stop Library to answer your research methods question.

1. Overview of the concepts of Quantitative research (Ismail Serageldin)
2. 14 common statistical issues simply explained (e.g. bias, significance testing, etc) see below.
3. "BA Supercourse Help Desk" You can post questions to be answered by experts using supercourse.helpdesk.bibalex.org
4. Research Methods Supercourse: We have collected over 1000 PowerPoint lectures from Experts an many different facets of research design
5. Survey Portal : We have identified top quality surveys on Smoking, Physical Activity, Quality of Life, and Disability.These surveys have been translated into at least 8 language and available for free for research efforts.
6. Research Apps: Collection of Apps in Science
7. Central Asian Journal of Global Health (CAJGH)
8. Research Methods Library of Alexandria Regional Centers
9. Research Methods Library of Alexandria Books
10. BA Africa Health Supercourse

• Bias, Confounding and the Role of Chance.( Part I - Part II )
• Bias and Confounding. ( Part I - Part II - in Spanish )

• Bias
• confounding: 1 3 2 Confounding Variables

• Data Sets and Outcome Measures.( Part I - Part II - Part III )
• Data Quality Control

• Missing data
• Data Quality: Missing Data

• Research planning. ( English - Spanish )

• Steps of the research process
• Types of Research and Research Designs -- Rey Ty

• What is Power Calculation by Steve Roberts

• Statistical power
• Power Calculation and sample size:
  An introduction to sample size calculations  

• Presentation and interpretation of epidemiological data: objectives
• Organizing data in tables and charts: Criteria for effective presentation
• Biostatistics course Part 3. Data, summary and presentation
  ( English - Spanish )

• DATA PRESENTATION
• Power and effect sizes (Lecture 11) - Pt 2 Logic of significance testing
• Creating a Presentation - PowerPoint 2010

• Publishing research articles: a look on the inside

• Academic publishing
• How to Write a Great Research Paper
• 2011 Writing for Publication

• MORBIDITY DATA: REGISTRIES AND SURVEILLANCE
  ( English - Spanish - Portuguese )
• Cancer Registration: Principles and Methods
• http://www.iarc.fr/en/publications/pdfs-online/epi/sp95/sp95-chap11.pdf

• Disease registry
• Cancer Registrar Evidence Based Medicine
• 75 Years of Public Opinion Quarterly in ~ 75 Seconds

• Sampling Technique and Sampling Size ( English - Spanish )

• Sampling (statistics)
• Dancing statistics: explaining the statistical concept of sampling and standard error through dance
• Variation - Why statistical methods are needed
• Statistics Sampling Methods

• Sampling Frames and Study Types: Studies on life events
  ( English - Spanish )
• Study Designs for Clinical and Epidemiological Research
  ( English - Russian - Romanian )
• Study Designs in Epidemiology

• Research design
• Study designs
• Hierarchy of study designs - Medical Statistics courses for doctors

• Overview of Public Health Surveillance. Part I
  ( English - Spanish )
• Study Designs for Clinical and Epidemiological Research
  ( English - Chinese )
• Overview of Public Health Surveillance. Part 2

• Surveillance
• Health Surveillance: The Basics

• A Primer on Sample Survey ( English - Spanish )
• Study Designs for Clinical and Epidemiological Research
  ( English - Chinese - Chinese version 2 )

• Survey
• Survey Fundamentals
• Designing Good Survey Questions
• SurveyMonkey Audience: Survey Design Best Practices Webinar

• Epidemiologic Research Designs: Cohort Studies
• Epidemiologic Research Designs: Experimental/Interventional Studies

• Statistical hypothesis testing
• Logic of statistical testing by Peter Homel
  Hypothesis Testing, Power, and Sample Size Estimation in Medical Research

• Introduction to Statistical Packages
• How to begin Using Stata

• List of statistical packages
• EndNote Tutorial:
  EndNote Overview: Bibliographies Made Easy
• Zotero Overview: zotero_tour
• Free Stats Resources:
  http://freestatistics.altervista.org/en/