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	گردآوری اسناد چندمنبعی	گردآوری اسناد
حوزه	روش‌شناسی پیمایش	روش‌شناسی پیمایش
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1970s–2000s (systematic articulation)	19th–20th century historical methods; contemporary social-science codification c. 2000s
پدیدآور	Rooted in qualitative documentary traditions; codified in mixed-methods and triangulation literature (Denzin 1970s; Bowen 2009)	Rooted in historical and social science traditions; systematized by Lindsay Prior and Glenn Bowen
نوع	Data collection strategy	Qualitative / mixed data-collection technique
منبع بنیادین	Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40.	Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40.
نام‌های دیگر	multi-source documentary research, multiple-document data collection, multi-site document analysis, cross-source document gathering	document analysis, documentary method, document review, secondary document analysis
مرتبط	3	3
خلاصه	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.	Document collection is a systematic data-collection technique in which the researcher gathers and reviews existing written, visual, or digital records — such as reports, meeting minutes, policies, letters, photographs, or institutional records — as primary or supplementary evidence. It is widely used in qualitative, historical, and mixed-methods research and can stand alone or complement interviews and observation.