References cited during 1979 and 1980 in five special education journals were reviewed, revealing information about nature and recency of sources (heavily reliant on journals), the top ten journal sources, stability of citation patterns (each journal tended to refer to a consistent pool of sources), and comparison to related fields. (CL)

Summarizes research dealing with: (1) the first daily newspaper in English, (2) ownership trends in cable television, (3) how women's magazines cover living alone, (4) city/regional magazines, (5) developing criteria for a farm magazine, and (6) media coverage of political events and issues. (FL)

Reports on a study which attempted to delineate cultural differences between middle-class White and Black females by determining if they have different reference groups as reflected in media usage habits. Findings showed that magazine, radio, and television use differed between groups. Differences were not considered indicative of true cultural…

Presents a study of journal title elements as represented in eight databases, and describes four measures developed to show the extent of standardization within a database and some of its implications for searching. (FM)

Among the most important industrial education research topics as ranked by an editorial board are the following: research issues in the 1980s, faculty development, teacher shortage, criteria for evaluating vocational programs, and validation of criterion-referenced measures. (SK)

Describes a comparative study conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina of time lag in the indexing of 51 major biomedical journals by four information services: Current Contents, Science Citation Index, SDILINE/Medline, and Index Medicus. Data are presented in three tables and a 10-item reference list is attached. (JL)

An analysis of the coverage given to foreign industrial disputes in "Time" and "Newsweek" from 1966 to 1973 reveals that a nonlinear relationship exists between the number of times an event occurs and the amount of coverage it receives. (FL)

A list of journals for professional health educators emphasizes materials which contain information on the theory and process of health education. (JN)

Presents a method based on a constrained optimization technique that determines the time of removal of scientific periodicals from the shelf of a library. A geometrical interpretation of the theoretical result is given, and a numerical example illustrates how the technique is applicable to real bibliographic data. (FM)

Describes a feature writing class and an advanced magazine writing class in which students write and submit articles to magazines. (GT)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and television script writer Alex Haley offers advice to aspiring writers, pointing out that the main factor in success as a writer is the willingness to devote great quantities of time to writing. (AEA)

Reviews five journals on simulation and gaming that are published in North America and the United Kingdom and suggests that there is a problem of subject redundancy in articles among and within the journals. (CMV)

Relates the work and effort that went into the production of a school literary magazine. (HOD)

Describes a study which sampled two card catalogs of varying sizes in order to find the percentage of personal authors who have only one entry, and discusses the implications of the results of the study for adoption of "Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2" (AACR 2). (FM)