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http://www.atlasti.com/
The textbook concentrates on Nvivo 7 as a way of illustrating CAQDAS in use. This link leads to the homepage of another, excellent, piece of computer software. You can read why ATLAS/ti is considered by many to be their first choice in this area and you can watch videos of the software in use. An advantage of ATLAS/ti was its ability to deal with a wide variety of media files (in addition to text files), although Nvivo 8 may have closed the gap in this regard.

http://www.qsrinternational.com/
This is the website of QSR, the company that produces some of the CAQDAS programs mentioned in the textbook (namely NUD*IST, NVivo and Xsight). As well as selling copies of the software, this site provides a great deal of advice and support for CAQDAS users. From this homepage you can download demonstrations of the programs, find out about conferences and workshops, consult experts at the Helpdesk (or read the FAQs) and look for further resources such as books, web links and the QSR discussion forum.

http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
This group of researchers at the University of Surrey have developed the CAQDAS Networking Project to provide practical support, training and information about qualitative data analysis software. This excellent and informative website contains information about forthcoming workshops and seminars, a bibliography of relevant texts, a mailing list and an advisory service. These are the experts to ask if you have any questions about using CAQDAS!

http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00fielding-e.htm
This is an interesting article about the role that CAQDAS can play in the “secondary” analysis of qualitative data. Nigel Fielding, from the University of Surrey, provides a helpful account of the advantages offered by CAQDAS programs for analyzing archived data from previous studies. The article serves as a useful reminder that you do not have to have conducted a complex qualitative research project of your own to be able to practise using CAQDAS.

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/2/1.html
This paper addresses the question of whether the emergence of CAQDAS has created a ‘new orthodoxy’ of code-and retrieve techniques that alienate the researcher from their data (see Coffey et al, 1996). Kelle argues that the various software packages available allow the researcher to pursue quite different theoretical and methodological directions and that you do not necessarily have to be an advocate of grounded theory to benefit from the tasks that they perform.