TAPoR, the Text Analysis Portal for Research has a very useful overview of tools to use as you do qualitative or text-based research.

TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval. Please contribute!

The project is led by Geoffrey Rockwell, Stefan Sinclair, Kirsten C. Uszkalo, and Milena Radzikowska and housed at the University of Alberta.

Here are some quick facts about TAPoR 2.0:

With TAPoR 2.0 you can:

• Discover text manipulation, analysis, and visualization tools
• Discover historic tools
• Read tool reviews and recommendations
• Learn about papers, articles and other sources about specific tools
• Tag, comment, rate and review collaboratively