Welcome IFAJ Members!

New partnership

A special partnership is forming this year to benefit you through the unique resources and services of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC). The Center operates from the University of Illinois with counsel and support from associates throughout the world.

It will help you gain easier access to what is believed to be the largest electronically searchable collection of research and practice in the journalism and communications aspects of agriculture, food and natural resources in more than 100 countries.

How you can benefit from this online partnership:

You can find information on practically any subject about agricultural journalism and communications. For example, do you want to:

• Sharpen your reporting, editing or photography skills?
• Read "what's new" about effective agricultural communicating?
• Examine agricultural journalism issues of the day?
• Monitor public attitudes about food and agriculture?
• Gather tips on investigative reporting techniques?
• Get personal help in searching for information you need?

How You Can Find Information You Want and Need

Step 1

Go to the "Search Tips" page.

The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) has many pages to assist you in identifying information about a wide variety of topics in this extensive collection.

Step 2

Choose the type of research.

The ACDC collection of more than 28,000 documents can be accessed in several different ways. You can search by author, title, subject, journal title and even date to identify the information you need. You also can search by document number.

• Tips on searching by author(s)
• Tips on searching by journal
• Tips on searching by subject(s)
• Tips on searching by title

Step 3

Select your search terms.

Review the thesaurus of subject terms available for searching this collection.

Step 4

Go to the Database Search page and begin searching.