10 research tips for graduate students

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10 research tips for graduate students

• Dru Frykberg, Librarian
• Greenlee School Reading Room
• 171 Hamilton Hall
• dfrykber_at_iastate.edu / 294-4353

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1 Know your libraries librarians

• Dru at Greenlee Reading Room
• (http//www.jlmc.iastate.edu)
• Rebecca Jackson at Parks Library
• (rjackson_at_iastate/ 294-9030)

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2 Visit the Academic Research Page

The Greenlee Reading Room has created a Web page
to assist faculty and graduate students
conducting research in journalism and
communication. http//www.jlmc.iastate.edu/resour
ces/hh-readingroom/
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3 Start with Expanded Academic ASAP

• http//www.lib.iastate.edu
• Tip Find only scholarly articles by checking
  limit to peer-reviewed articles.

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4 Know your news sources

• ABI/Inform (Wall Street Journal)
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• Tip Use atleast command for
• content analysis.
• Television News Archive at Vanderbilt
• University.

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5 Use specialized databases

• ComAbstracts
• ComIndex
• Psychinfo

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6 Try multiple databases

• Consider using e-Librarys Find It, a
  metasearch engine targeting library research
  tools
• http//www.lib.iastate.edu
• Also try Current Contents Connect

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7 Sign up for email alerts

• Search alerts
• E-TOCs
• Journal issue alerts
• Citation alerts
• TIP visit http//www.lib.iastate.edu/services1/re
  f/tocserv.html

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8 Track down hard-to-find articles

• E-Journals
• Library Catalog
• Greenlee Reading Room Catalog
• Ingenta
• Interlibrary loan

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9 Use theses, dissertations for ideas

• Greenlee Reading Room theses collection
• Parks Librarys theses, dissertations
• AEJMCs abstracts to theses, dissertations at
• http//www.aejmc.org/abstracts/index.html
• Proquest Digital Dissertations (Dissertation
  Abstracts) at
• http//wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway

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10 Properly (carefully) cite your sources

• EndNote
• Free citation cites like Landmarks
• Citation Machine at
• http//www.landmarkproject.com/citation_machine/in
  dex.php
• Brush up at Bruin Success at
• http//www.library.ucla.edu/bruinsuccess/