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The Greenlee Reading Room has created this Web page to assist faculty, graduate students and others conducting academic research in the fields of journalism and communication.The following resources are arranged to help users find:

Dissertations and theses
Information on journals and citations
Scholarly resources on the Web
Library databases
Sources of grants and funding

Scholars might also want to consult Librarian Dru Frykberg's "10 Research Tips for Graduate Students" or "Tools for the Future: Librarian & Faculty Collaboration."

Find dissertations, theses

AEJMC Journalism and Mass Communication Abstracts — Access online master's thesis and Ph.D. dissertation abstracts from 1996 to the current year.

Dissertation Abstracts International — Find abstracts and citations to dissertations and theses back to 1861. Also, provides free 24-page previews to Iowa State dissertations and those published back to 1997.

Find information on journals, citations

Assembling a List of Works Cited — A guide from the Duke University Libraries.

Basic Legal Citation — From the Cornell Law School, learn to cite legal cases, laws and more. Examples are provided.

The Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed —Find answers to your style questions here. Perform searches for "bibliography" or "citations" to find examples of proper documentation.

Connect Complete—Formerly called Ingenta, use this electronic document delivery service to immediately retrieve and access articles not available from the University Library's collection of journals or indexes.

Journal Citation Reports—Use this Web of Science feature to evaluate and compare journals based on total citations, impact factors, immediacy index and more. Researchers can look specifically at communication journals. Includes JCR Social Sciences and JCR Science.

Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature—A print resource available in the Greenlee Reading Room at PN 4731 .A11 C38x 2004. Learn about discipline-specific databases, core periodicals, listservs and associations.

The Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields—Provides the manuscript requirements and review processes to 125 journals, including acceptance rates and contact information.

Landmarks Citation Machine—Use this site to create APA and MLA citations for bibliographies. Provides the proper formats for print and electronic resources. You fill in the information, and the citation machine does the formatting.

Web of Science—Use this database's Cited Ref Search feature to determine where and by whom an article has been cited. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Find scholarly resources on the Web

ComWeb MegaSearch — Perform more precise Web searches using ComWeb from the Communication Institute for Online Scholarhsip. ComWeb allows users to search the full text of 86,000 Web pages from 350 communication and journalism Web sites. Google Scholar — Search exclusively for scholarly content found mostly on the open Web. This search tool won't uncover materials listed in library databases or catalogs.

Infomine: Scholarly Internet Research Collections — Save time searching this virtual library of about 90,000 academic resources, including electronic journals, databases, articles and more. Be an even more efficient searcher by selecting a subject search, such as social sciences and the humanities.

Parks Library's Journalism and Mass Communication Resources on the Web — Use this site to find scholarly articles, news sites, professional organizations and so much more.

Scirus — Search exclusively for scholarly Web sites and journal articles using this search engine. Provides easy access to full-text proprietary information Parks Library subscribes to.

University of Iowa's Journalism and Mass Communication Resources on the Web — Here's the place to find journalism and communication organizations, schools, listservs and other resources.

Search library databases

ABI/Inform (Proquest) — Access full-text trade and scholarly articles, especially in business-related fields. Find full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal back to 1984, Journal of Communication back to 1988 and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly back to 1995.

Access World News — Search newspaper articles, including those from Iowa newspapers like The Des Moines Register.

ComAbstracts — Find abstracts to selected articles from more than 50 communication journals. New and old article entries are added on an irregular basis. Its companion database, ComIndex (only available on the Reading Room PC), provides citations to articles from 80 communication journals dating as far back as 1970.

Current Contents Connect — Acquire abstracts and table of contents to journals, books and conference proceedings. Updated daily, coverage includes the current year, plus the previous two years. Special features include Current Web Contents that provides links to scholarly Web sites and users can sign up for a weekly email alerting service.

Ethnic News Watch — Search for articles appearing in U.S. racial and ethnic minority newspapers, consumer magazines and some journals with a focus on African American, American Indian, Asian American and U.S. Latino publications. Coverage dates back to 1995 with retrospective indexing and full text for some publications back to 1985. Updated monthly.

Expanded Academic ASAP — A source for full-text scholarly articles from the sciences and humanities.

LexisNexis Academic — Provides full-text news stories and transcripts from international, national and local sources. A great database to use when performing content analysis.

PsychInfo — Provides citations and abstracts and some full text from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology and education, including research on the media and communication. PsychINFO indexes journal articles from 1872 to the present, and books and book chapters dated 1987 to the present.

Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University — Search for network evening news coverage back to 1968. Streaming CNN video is available back to 1999 and there are program abstracts. The archive loans copies of news programs for a fee. Coverage is from ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, including Nightline and special reports.

Sources of grants and funding

Advertising Educational Foundation — Offers a visiting professor program.

American Educational Research Association

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — Provides support for work and research in scholarly communication, research universities and teaching and technology.

Annenberg Foundation

Arthur W. Page Society

Bauman Foundation — Program areas include information for democratic accountability and society and the environment.

Broadcast Education Association

Carnegie Corp of New York — Provides grants for work and research in education, international peace and security, international development and strengthening U.S. democracy.

CS Fund and Warsh/Mott Legacy —" ... dedicated to preserving biodiversity, defending democracy, preventing the commodification of life and protecting human and environmental health."

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Inc.

Ford Foundation

The Foundation Center

Fulbright Program

Grants.gov — The site to go to find federal grants and learn about applying for them.

Grants Information Collection

Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation

Grants for Individuals: Communications

Grants for Individuals: Journalism

Institute for Public Relations

Iowa State University Weekly Funding Opportunities

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation —Supports projects involving news and entertainment media.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

McCormick Tribune Foundation

National Association of Broadcaster Education Foundation

National Association of Broadcasters Research Grants

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Science Foundation Funding

Pew Charitable Trusts Grants Information

Roy J. Carver Trust

Schumann Center for Media and Democracy

Scripps Howard Foundation

Time Warner

Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Media and Communications

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

William Randolph Hearst Foundations