SOURCES AND EXPERTS
Profnet made easy, and lots of other places to find experts


A good place to begin your search is with the organizations that have put their directories of experts on the web. These listings typically include e-mail addresses, which sometimes produce a response faster than calling. Check out the West Coast listings if you need somebody late in the day. We can help by searching for experts online in our commercial databases or in our collection of printed directories, which includes the Encyclopedia of Associations. If you've found a source on your own, we'd be happy to help check her out.

Profnet
Fill out this form to search over 800 universities and research institutions for an expert.
Note: requests made after 11:30 a.m. will be sent out the next day. While you're here, you might want to troll ProfNet's new searchable database of over 2,000 experts.

American University Experts
Includes foreign language-speaking experts list.
Big Ten Plus Experts
Search for experts at 15 universities, including Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, University of Michigan and Northwestern
Journalists' Guide to Brandeis Faculty Experts
Experts in arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences.
California Institute of Technology Experts Guide
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Part of the University of California at San Francisco. Search faculty bios by clicking on "Prevention People."
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Good sources on workplace issues: absenteeism, turnover, compensation, etc.
Counsel Quote
Billed as the "journalist's link to the right experts for any legal story," this service of Counsel Connect, an online service for lawyers, lets you to search by topic or fill out a query form to find an expert among the service's 35,000 members.
Duke University News Sources
East-West Center News Media Guide
Specialists on the Asia-Pacific region
Emory Faculty Experts
Emory is still constructing its online experts guide, but sections on the South, African-American churches, the civil rights movement, etc. are now available.
The Expert Pages
One of the better expert directories used by lawyers to find experts, expert witnesses, legal consultants, etc.
experts.com
Experts, spokespersons and consultants brought to you by San Francisco's Noble Group, publishers of Internet directories
Harvard Business School
Select from areas of expertise that include accounting, finance, marketing and organizational behavior to retrieve detailed faculty bios.
Harvard School of Public Health
Search for faculty by area of research, such as adolescents, asthma, diet and genetics, to retrieve detailed bios.
Health Information Resource Database
Organizations and government agencies that deal with a particular health problem, like heart disease or spinal cord injuries. Link to many organizations' web sites or e-mail them from here.
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard's graduate school of public policy, planning and administration. Experts on everything from affirmative action to corporate law to welfare.
Johns Hopkins University
Good experts in areas of agriculture, farming, nutrition.
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Find a legal expert by area of expertise. Narrow down to Florida or any other area.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Electronic and other ways to contact the staff of the NGLTF, which has supported grassroots organizing and advocacy since 1973. The NPC describes this as "a journalist's tip-of-the-fingers guide to expertise."
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (at Harvard)
Select "Directory of Faculty, Fellows and Professional Staff" to search by area of research interest or just browse the faculty listings
Texas A&M University Agriculture Program Experts Directory
Experts on food, aquaculture, farm law and policy, livestock, entomology, etc.
University of Missouri-Columbia News Bureau's Experts Guide
University of Southern California Experts Directory
University of California, Davis, Experts Directory
University of Florida College of Medicine
$200-million in research is conducted by Florida faculty and students each year. Their interests range from adolescents to zoology. Using this fairly hefty keyword index is a good way to find them.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
A very slick guide (includes faculty photos) to the school's business and management experts
Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons

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