Sophomore Symposium: Home

As you work through your own research quests, it is very important to be self-reflective. Consider:

- What do you really need to find?
- Do you need to learn more about the general subject before you can identify the focus of your search?
- How thoroughly did you develop your search strategy?
- Did you spend enough time finding the best tools to search?
- What is going really well, so well that you’ll want to remember to do it in the future?

"Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Journalist’s Resource examines news topics through a research lens. We curate and summarize public policy research relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Our philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims. Our hope is that journalists, in the course of reporting, will routinely ask this question: What does the research say?"

Provides U.S. public opinion data from 1935-the present. iPoll is useful for finding what Americans think on a particular topic and how opinions have changed over time.

Social Explorer provides access to demographic data and includes tools for visualization. Create maps, charts, and stories using historic and current data on the economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more.