The "magapaper," a cross between a newspaper and a magazine, is seen as deserving serious consideration for replacing alumni newspapers. The magapaper offers the inside news characteristic of newspapers, opportunities for better design, opportunities for lengthier off-beat stories, and continuing education. (MLW)

Offers seven guidelines to follow when submitting student work for publication. Lists and discusses magazines for children. (RL)

Outlines practical searching techniques in seven core behavioral science databases accessing psychological literature: Psychological Abstracts, Social Science Citation Index, Biosis, Medline, Excerpta Medica, Sociological Abstracts, ERIC. Use of individual files is discussed and their relative strengths/weaknesses are compared. Appended is a list…

Addresses the public library's problems in cataloging foreign language materials and assuring the patron's access to them. Eleven references are cited. (FM)

Considers the market for freelance writing in Sunday newspaper magazines. Suggests that this market is a logical outlet for journalism student work. (RL)

Teaching inferential statistics in library schools is advocated. Study regarding the use of statistics in the field's periodicals indicates more penetrating analyses could have been accomplished. A description of a research methods course at one school is included. (Author/MBR)

An examination of the way Blacks use the media and the way they assess their communication environment revealed that social structural variables were important determinants of both media exposure and perceptions of the media. (GT)

A study in which subjects read different versions of a science article revealed that reader enjoyment increased as the article became more "popularized"; the study indicated, however, that increased reader enjoyment need not result in decreased information gain. (GT)

A comparison of the Magazine Index (MI) and the New York Times Information Bank (IB) showed the two data bases have little in common, mainly due to differences in focus, indexing, vocabulary, use online, and output. For business and government users, IB is the best choice; for more general and academic purposes, MI provides access to more…

Some editors do not manage their journals and university presses competently, at the expense of those submitting articles; graduate students should be taught the facts of academic publishing. (DD)

Approximately 135 books and/or articles are listed in this bibliography on Canadian Indian musical culture. (JC)

One is always looking for new projects for students that will be of lasting benefit and also stimulate enthusiasm and thinking. A teacher at Wingate High School, New Mexico, a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, combines Navajo weaving with magazine writing in order to interest and stimulate her students. (Author/RK)

Two educational indexes' overlap of coverage is studied in terms of editorial policy, growth, and size of coverage, cover-to-cover vs. selective indexing, and the subject orientation of the periodicals concerned in order to compare two approaches to the same discipline. (Author/AP)

Describes Mosaico, a new Spanish-language book club from the Bookspan group. Discusses Mosaico's direct mail marketing campaign and advertisement in magazines; snapshots of the average Hispanic reader/customer; most popular titles; Mosaico's special relationship with publishers in its role as editorial publication, distribution network, publishing…

Presents the annual periodicals price study. Highlights include average prices; cost histories; cost projections for future budgeting; electronic journal issues; flip pricing, defined as online access at the core of pricing negotiations; various pricing models; purchasing print at deeply discounted prices; and current trends in pricing and in the…