Research Tools
EndNote
EndNote is a software program produced by Clarivate for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. It is a bibliographic management package used to manage your referencing. EndNote helps you to:
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- Store and organise references
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- Search and export from online databases
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- Retrieve full-text articles, pdfs
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- Open, annotate and search pdfs
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- Create bibliographies in over 5000 styles
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- Formats references in Mircosoft Word
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- Access and manage your research from anywhere
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The University subscribes to EndNote therefore registered students and staff have access to the software.
Please use your DUT email address and email password to authenticate
- EndNote installation guide
- Download the software
- Watch this video if you are experiencing challenges downloading or installing the software
- Style Files (Excel & Annotated Style)
- Find Full Text URLs
- For help on using EndNote, please visit our EndNote Research Guide webpage
SPSS
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, or SPSS, is the world's leading statistical software, used by various kinds of researchers for complex statistical data analysis. It offers a user-friendly interface and a robust set of features that lets you quickly extract actionable insights from your data.
Please click here to download SPSS version 29
Use your DUT email credentials to access the software.
Once you have downloaded and installed the software, please send an email to dutlibrary@dut.ac.za to have the software licensed.
The licensing can be done via MS Teams or TeamViewer (please download and install TeamViewer if necessary)
QuestionPro
What is it? QuestionPro, a powerful online survey research tool available to all faculty, staff, and students at the Durban University of Technology. Using QuestionPro, you can design simple to complex surveys in a web browser, distribute the survey, run frequencies as it continues to collect data, and then download your data. For in-depth analysis, you can export your data to SPSS, CSV, or Excel file.
What can I use it for? Students, faculty, and staff can use QuestionPro for university-related academic or administrative purposes. It is also one of the rare commercial tools that any member of the university community can use for the benefit of outside organizations, even for-profit ones. The users can use QuestionPro for creating Surveys, Web Forms, Offline Research Studies and Data Collection and Survey Data Analytics.
For more information and to register your QuestionPro account, click here