Faculty Resources & Services - Terre Haute

• Foundation Center -- has a "Funder Data" search which gives very basic information about funders.
• Grantsmanship Center -- includes information on funding sources by state.
• Grants.gov -- allows you to electronically find and apply for Federal grants.
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance -- catalog of Federal funding programs.
• National Endowment for the Humanities -- apply for grants.
• National Science Foundation -- find available funding sources.
• National Institutes of Health -- grant and funding opportunities.
• U.S. Department of Education -- funding opportunities, grants, and contracts.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- grants and funding opportunities.

• Indiana Philanthropy Alliance (formerly the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance) -- "Indiana Philanthropy Alliance (IPA) is a nonprofit membership association of and for the state’s philanthropic grantmaking community. Our members include public and private foundations, corporate giving programs, governmental grantmakers, regranting organizations, philanthropic advisors and other qualified individuals. Collectively, our membership holds about $12.5 billion in assets and awards more than $500 million in grants each year. IPA itself does not make grants."
• Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Resource Page -- Search for resources by funder type, funding area, and more

Check Magazines in Libraries in the reference collection (Z6941 .K2 2008) for lists of periodicals by subject. 

Many opportunities for publishing are offered in journals published by professional organizations.  Faculty and staff can seek out these opportunities by looking on the websites of organizations related to their field of study or profession. For specific publication guidelines look for links titled Submissions or Authors. Find organizations using: 

• Associations USA: a directory of contact information for national associations, foundations, and other nonprofit organizations in the United States and Canada. 
       Available in the Reference Collection -- Call number:  HS61.A2 A87 2006
   
• Encyclopedia of Associations: a three volume guide to more than 22,000 organizations.  Includes a keyword index which allows you to find organizations by field or profession.  
       Available in the Reference Collection -- Call number: HS17 .G15 2006
   
• Associations on the Net -- from the Internet Public Library.

Textbook publishers also offer opportunities for publishing: 

• Textbook Publishers -- from Acquisitions Web, a list of textbook publishers with links to their websites.

Opportunities specific to service learning: 

• Publishing Outlets for Service-Learning and Community-Based Research -- from Campus Compact. 
   
• Developing Service-Learning Scholarship: Actions and Issues to Consider -- from the National Service Learning Clearinghouse. (Scroll down to Places to Publish Service-Learning Scholarship.)

Opportunities at Ivy Tech: 

• The Atrium ... A Journal of Academic Voices -- "The Atrium is a peer reviewed, cross disciplinary journal that is published each Spring and fall by the English Department at the Gary campus of Ivy Tech Community College, one of the largest community college systems in the United States. The Atrium invites and encourages innovative, creative, and critical articles that spur academic discourse across the disciplines."

Use our online subscription resources and/or Google Scholar to research what others have written and published on your topic. 

• Online Subscription Resources
• Google Scholar
• Writing for Academic Publication -- from the Online Editor of the United States Distance Learning Association Journal.
• Tips for: Academic Publishing -- from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Associations USA: a directory of contact information for national associations, foundations, and other nonprofit organizations in the United States and Canada.
      Available in the Reference Collection -- Call number:  HS61.A2 A87 2006
   
• Encyclopedia of Associations: a three volume guide to more than 22,000 organizations.  Includes a keyword index which allows you to find organizations by field or profession. 
      Available in the Reference Collection -- Call number: HS17 .G15 2006
   
• Associations on the Net from the Internet Public Library.

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  Tips: 
  • How to Give an Academic Talk -- from the University of Michigan.
  • How to Get to Carnegie Hall: Giving a Good Paper -- from the Tenured Radical Blog.
  • The Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver -- from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
  • The Captive Audience; or Liberating Thoughts on Conference Papers -- from the Modern Language Association.
  • Presentations -- from Big Dog and Little Dog's Performance Juxtaposition.