Time saving (e.g. accessing databases or processing quickly at low cost)

High time input to learn how to use digital software; once learned, the literature may have developed forward to new methodologies with different software

Ease of use

High time input to manage digital software properly

Accessibility (e.g. to recent information)

High price to purchase software, updates, and connected training courses

Provision of objectivity and scientificity to research

Rigidity of some software (some are developed in English, and to analyze a certain corpus of words it is necessary to develop ad hoc semantic dictionaries in native language)

Order across concepts

No assistance service in case of need of support for free version of digital tools

Research funds saving for free version of digital tools

Risk of flattening the data

Ease of interpretation and sharing of results with other scholars who use the same software

Excessive standardization of many procedures, which might hinder the originality and the uniqueness of some research approaches

Possibility of achieving a high number of respondents

Lack of control

Increased knowledge flow

Digital tools not easily accessible in economic terms to all scholars

Flexibility in the choice of provider; the best service at a reasonable price

Linguistic precision in case of proofreading

Language learning using specific digital services