Research Methods in Science and Technology Journalism

Resources

Stephen Bales: Communication and Journalism Subject Specialist

Communications Scholarly Journals

Journalism Focused Scholarly Journals

General Academic Databases that Index Journalism Lit

Discipline Specific Databases: Journalism & Mass Comm

Communications & Mass Media Complete The best source for articles on journalism and all aspects of communications.
Communication Studies: Sage Full Text Sixteen communications journals published by Sage.

Discipline Specific Databases: Science

Agricola Agriculture and life sciences.
Biosis Biology
Geo Ref Geology and Earth Science
Illustrata Natural science statistical tables
Inspec Engineering, physics, astronomy, computer science.
Medline Worldwide biomedical literature.
Science.gov (www.science.gov) U.S. government portal to over 36 science databases.
SciFinder Chemistry, biochemistry, and applied chemistry.
Web of Science Hard sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Gray Lit/Harder to Find Lit./Data

ACRL Internet Resources: Gray Literature (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2004/mar/graylit.cfm) A list of useful Websites for locating gray literature and pre-prints.
ICPSR Source for raw data sets in social science.
Marquis Who’s Who Directory of important people in many fields.
PapersFirst Database indexing over 580,000 academic conference/congress/symposium papers.
Citeseer (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/) Web database of scientific lit. Focuses primarily on computer and information sciences.
Tamu Institutional Repository (http://repositories.tamu.edu/).