Questionnaires on manuscript requirements were sent to the editors of periodicals which were selected from such sources as "Library Literature,""Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory", "Irregular Serials and Annuals" and others. Most of the periodicals were published in the United States with some state publications included. The title,…

"This Fragile Earth" is the theme portrayed in this newsletter from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Since we are being faced with the problem of survival because of the deterioration of the environment, it is suggested that the fragile quality of the environment can serve as a means of impressing upon young people their…

This annotated bibliography, listing sources which trace the history of vocational education from the early 20th century to the close of 1966, is divided into three parts: (1) books and monographs, (2) periodical articles, and (3) doctoral dissertations. Citations contained in each of the three parts are arranged alphabetically and include…

This quarterly index provides subject access to individual articles and reviews which appeared from July to September 1970 in 100 alternative periodicals. Since the last issue of the index, 30 new periodicals have been added. These additions reflect some of the areas which the index has not covered sufficiently in the past: gay liberation, womens'…

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) integrated computer programs for journal control have been extensively revised so that all journal ordering for ORNL, Y-12, and ORGDP is handled through this system. This series of programs provide: (1) management information in the form of cost, subscriber, and title statistics; (2) seven copy purchase…

The Drug Abuse Current Awareness System (DACAS) is a comprehensive biweekly listing of citations of recent drug abuse literature, derived from scanning the major publications media in the area. This includes scientific and technical journals, popular magazines, underground newspapers, books, legal journals, and government project reports.…

The Drug Abuse Current Awareness System (DACAS) is a comprehensive biweekly listing of citations of recent drug abuse literature, derived from scanning the major publications media in the area. This includes scientific and technical journals, popular magazines, underground newspapers, books, legal journals, and government project reports.…

If citations are concentrated on a relatively small number of articles within individual journals as well as between different journals, selections of key articles can be published that should satisfy a high percentage of library demand for back runs at low purchase cost. To test this hypothesis, a test was carried out on self-citations in three…

The articles in this issue range from a description of starting a successful free school in a St. Louis ghetto to a suggestion for suing the public school system for failing to provide adequate education. Personal experiences of a teacher suspended for his radical approach to teaching, of a substitute teacher in a class to teach English to the…

The purpose of this book is to provide a practical guide for persons who are responsible for the issuance of the small magazine. It deals with accepted methods and techniques used in getting out such periodicals, with standards and sources of content material, with various matters relating to physical appearance, and with executive and…

The aim of the project was to develop automated systems encompassing the functions of existing manual procedures, but only when the functions could also be surpassed sufficiently to justify the cost of automation. The housekeeping systems were to be viewed as a whole and appropriate interfaces provided between them so as to provide an integrated…

Approximately 150 newsletters, newspapers, and other periodicals are cited in this bibliography of current sources of information about or directed toward North American Indians. One-sentence descriptions of content, ordering information, and frequency of publication are provided. The majority of the periodicals cited emphasize current events of…

The introduction to this paper discusses the definition of the scope of library and information science and establishes what is included under the term "periodical." The main types of periodicals are considered to be: professional and academic, international, periodicals outside the field and secondary periodicals. The second section…

"Access" is an indexing, abstracting, and information retrieval service that covers published and non-print information on environmental pollution, conservation, and related fields. It provides an overview of the environmental reporting of more than 1000 scholarly, scientific, industrial, technical, and general periodicals and major newspapers;…

Reports of current research related to alcohol problems and allied subjects are contained in this quarterly journal. Subject areas cover physiology-biochemistry, metabolism of alcohol, determination of alcohol, psychology, psychiatry, treatment of alcoholism, intoxication and its treatment, medical complications in alcoholism, social aspects,…