Research Tools
RefWorks, a web-based program for organizing citations and creating bibliographies, is available for free through the library. EndNote and ProCite are available for a discount through the NYU Computer Store.
SPSS, a statistical software package used for quantitative research, is available through ITS at $250 per license. SPSS is also available on the computers in the lab at Washington Place. The Data Service Studio, located on the 6th floor of Bobst, provides individual consultation and group training sessions on statistical software.
GIS & Mapping software is also available through NYU in both proprietary and open source formats. The Data Service Studio provides consultation and training on mapping software as well.
The Communications and Media Studies page on the Bobst site contains links to reference works, databases, directories, and other research guides, as well as contact information for our subject librarian.
Research Councils and Institutes
Council for Media and Culture
The Council for Media and Culture provides a forum and focal point for scholarly explorations and public ventures that probe the form and content of human communication in mediated environments.
Information Law Institute
The Institute provides an academic center for studying the effects of contemporary choices concerning the legal rules affecting the production, manipulation, storage, and dissemination of, and access to, information in the digitally networked society.
Institute for Public Knowledge
The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) brings theoretically serious scholarship to bear on major public issues. Located at NYU, it nurtures collaboration among social researchers in New York and around the world. It builds bridges between university-based researchers and organizations pursuing practical action.
Humanities Initiative
Created in 2007, the Humanities Initiative at NYU draws on the talents and energies of our faculty and students across the university to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration in the humanities and arts.
Center for Media, Culture, and History
The Center for Media, Culture and History (GSAS) is a collaborative project, drawing on faculty from the Africana Studies Program and the Departments of Anthropology, Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature, History, and Religious Studies.
Center for Religion and Media
The Center's goal is to develop and broaden interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarship, pedagogy, and public knowledge of religion and media at New York University.