At long last, I’ve updated this list of Research & Case Studies Regarding Virtual Volunteering, at the Virtual Volunteering Wiki.

In association with the The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, I provide this compilation of research, evaluation reports and case studies regarding online volunteering / virtual volunteering, including studies on the various different activities that are a part of online volunteering such as online activism, online civic engagement, online mentoring, microvolunteering, remote volunteers, or crowd-sourcing, etc.  Note: these are not opinion or PR pieces – these provide hard data, case studies, etc.

Also note that sometimes articles do not call the unpaid contributors “volunteers.” There are also articles on virtual teams, which often involved paid staff; these research studies are especially applicable to virtual volunteering scenarios.

How do I compile this research? By search various keywords on GoogleScholar and Academia.edu. I wish I had more time to keep the list up-to-date but, unfortunately, I can do it only once a year or so.