Method evidence record

Multi-source Document Collection

Multi-source document collection is a data-gathering strategy in which researchers systematically locate, retrieve, and compare documents drawn from two or more independent sources — such as government archives, institutional records, media outlets, organisational reports, or digital repositories. By assembling evidence from diverse provenance, researchers can triangulate findings, detect discrepancies, and build a richer, more credible picture of the phenomenon under study than any single documentary source can provide.

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Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / survey-methodology

Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40. · DOI 10.3316/QRJ0902027
Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (5th ed.). Sage. · ISBN 978-1506386706

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Related methods

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