Methods for evaluating scientific and technical journals such as frequency of citation, "impact factor," and "Immediacy Index" are described. (PF)

This article is a survey of institutional affiliations of authors of articles published in Volumes 9 through 20 of the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Trends are reported within this 12-year period, and comparisons are made with earlier surveys by Goodstein and by Bohn. (Author)

Discusses the reasons for adding a magazine as part of the high school's publications, offers suggestions for planning a school magazine, and presents some of the advantages of having a magazine. (RB)

This is the 12th volume of a bound periodical, "American Journal of Education." This journal was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. The focus of this issue is on military systems and military education in France and Prussia. [This volume was published by Henry Barnard. It represents n3 of…

The document contains titles of materials in career/vocational education for the handicapped which are available at the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies (Institute, West Virginia). Section I provides the title, author, publisher, copyright date (when available), and brief description of approximately 140 instructional materials. A second…

Intended to assist students in locating information and literature for the sociological study of the media, this guide concentrates largely on radio, television, newspaper, and magazine reference sources. The first section of the guide lists reference works, including handbooks; English, French, and bilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias;…

This checklist brings together the bulk of the materials relating to libraries and librarianship in Papua New Guinea, including several that have not been identified previously. The 121 citations for papers, reports, and periodical articles published between 1961 and 1977 are listed in chronological order. Excluded are newspaper reports, official…

This bibliography of newsletters, periodicals, and indexes useful to adult educators includes periodicals held at Bird Library and the Clearinghouse of Resources for Educators of Adults (CREA), both at Syracuse University; newsletters held by CREA; and indexes held by Bird. The bibliography is divided into four sections: (1) the Bird Library…

The Flesch readability formula was used to analyze 192 100-word samples from selected matching issues of "Time" and "Newsweek." It was hypothesized that "immediate-reward" types of news, such as sports, social, and human interest events, would be significantly more readable (fewer syllables per 100 words and fewer…

This second edition of Black Periodicals and Newspapers is a guide to the holdings and locations of more than 600 periodical and newspaper titles relating to black Americans which were received before February 1979 in the libraries of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The guide…

A content analysis was performed on six mass-audience women's magazines to determine frequency of coverage of specific mental disorders and to see how fair and complete mental illness coverage was in the magazines. The six magazines analyzed were "Family Circle,""McCalls,""Good…

An interview with W. Eugene Smith, well-known photographer and photographic essayist, is presented in this paper. The introductory section of the paper contains a biographical sketch of Smith and a discussion of his photographic essays on a number of topics, including World War II scenes, life in a Spanish village, the work of a black midwife in…

Periodicals, indexes, and abstracts important to the interdisciplinary fields of gerontology and geriatrics which are currently available at the Wichita State University are discussed. The section on periodicals includes a discussion of why they are useful as an information source, along with a short description of the scope of 18 journals. The…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE (1) WHAT PROBLEMS THE ADVICE COLUMNS AND ARTICLES IN THE TEEN MAGAZINES PRESENT, (2) THE NATURE OF THE ADVICE GIVEN, (3) WHETHER THEY WERE DIRECTED PRIMARILY TOWARD GIRLS, BOYS, OR BOTH, AND (4) WHO THE AUTHORS ARE. OVER A 10-MONTH PERIOD, 84 ISSUES OF DIFFERENT TEEN MAGAZINES WERE EXAMINED BY USING A…