This classified subject index provides access to articles and illustrations appearing in the National Geographic Magazine over a period of 67 years. Detailed topics are grouped under broader alphabetical headings, and people are listed only as featured subjects of articles. See and see also references are included. The introduction explains the…

This manual is intended to provide educators with information and guidelines for locating, selecting, and purchasing commercially available courseware for the Apple II microcomputer. A courseware index is provided which lists programs in broad subject areas and grade levels. Information given for each program includes its DOS, language, cost,…

This is the 1977 listing of subscription, government, and gift periodicals, newspapers, and services which are currently received by the State Library of Ohio. Entries are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by a location symbol to designate where a particular title is housed in the library--Reference, Genealogy, Tower Library, and…

This discussion of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards that deal with periodicals shows how these adopted and recommended standards can be useful to editors of newly established journals, especially those in emerging nations. It describes the standards in detail, and suggests that those who wish to publish a journal…

This subject guide to articles and illustrations appearing in the National Geographic over a 64 year period groups detailed topics under broader alphabetical headings. It is not an author or title index, and includes people only as featured subjects of articles. An abbreviation key is provided. (FM)

"The Ladies' Home Journal" and its founder Cyrus H. K. Curtis are often praised for establishing significant and lasting standards of reputable advertising in the United States. These standards include banning the profitable but offensive advertising of patent medicines, vouching for the integrity of advertising contained in the…

This listing of clearinghouses, directories, newsletters, and journal columns presents information on library instruction resources based on responses to a mail survey conducted in the spring of 1980. A clearinghouse is defined as a center which collects library instructional materials for loan and/or on-site inspection. Seventeen clearinghouses…

Devoted primarily to the criticism of news media, the journalism review model established in Chicago in 1968 was followed in the next five years by about 25 other journalism reviews across the country. While these reviews vary in format and policy, a recent survey indicated that the majority of them originate from journalist groups, operate…

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of survey research data concerning the characteristics of magazine editors and magazine operations. The specific areas addressed are: the professional and personal characteristics of magazine editors; the extent to which editors become involved in and control the full scope of magazine editorial…

Listed are periodicals in the biological sciences, selected according to the following criteria: they are current publications, issued at least twice a year, covered by at least three of four major indexing and abstracting services, acquisitioned currently by at least one of the three national libraries, comprise part of the collections of other…

Science communication techniques are expected to change markedly in the next decade because of the developments on an international scale of coupled information systems in various scientific disciplines and technological missions. A change in techniques is also expected because of growing needs of users as well as of producers of science…

Four hundred and ninety one primary journals covered by "Physics Abstracts" in 1965 have been studied and their basic characteristics analyzed in terms of sponsorship, distribution by country, language, frequency, and coverage by secondary services other than "Physics Abstracts," and the number of libraries holding each…

This report presents the results of a study of the nature and extent of overlap in coverage by the "Bibliography of Agriculture" (B of A) and 15 other abstracting and indexing services. Using a sample of over 5000 citations from 1967 issues of B of A, literature searches were made in 15 other related services to determine the extent and…

This bibliography of literature on the educable mentally retarded contains three types of materials: (1) 26 textbooks such as "The Economics of Vocational Rehabilitation," by Ronald Conley and "Selected References on the Education and Vocational Rehabilitation of Mentally Retarded Adolescents and Adults," by George Ayers; (2) 123 periodicals and…

The study examined the quality of educational research published in the journals, with a focus on the following: (1) an evaluation of the quality of contemporary published research from the standpoint of sound research conduct and reporting as judged by experts, and (2) an examination of the relationship between assigned quality ratings and…