Discusses some of the significant sources that have influenced the research by participants in a Research Think Tank (on business communication). Discusses sources that inspired research, how the source list was generated, why it is relevant, and what it tells researchers. Appends the 75-item list. (SR)

Discusses print and World Wide Web resources for student affairs researchers. (GCP)

In order to locate and study the primary sources needed in film research, a combination of bibliographies, advice from experienced research workers, and scripts, pressbook files, and film-print collections must be used. This discussion provides suggestions for locating and using archival film materials and examines some of the standard references…

The workshop is intended for individual or group use to understand the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) and the Exceptional Child Education Resources (ECER) databases as a way of finding information on special education topics. Information products available from ERIC and The Council for Exceptional Children (which maintains the…

Designed to assess the ability of subjects to apply concrete operations to data in a reading format, and to determine if there is any difference with regard to type of paragraph or type of question, this test consists of four short paragraphs, each of which established one of the following operations: an additive classification, a multiplicative…

Designed to investigate how the beginning reader understands the antecedent/anaphora relationship in written discourse, this test contains four stories which were drawn from basal readers and modified so that the categories of pronouns were represented in proportion to their occurrence in the basal readers. Stories were further modified so that…

This exploration of reasons why historians do not take full advantage of government publications as sources of historical materials focuses on the difficulty of accessing information under current classification and indexing schemes. (CLB)

Research in higher education law requires reporter systems, citators, indices, and commercial services. The major legal resources available for research in higher education are reviewed. (Author/MLW)

Describes how college librarians are working with professors and some courseware companies to add research aids to course Web sites. (EV)

Describes four approaches to art historical scholarship, including iconography, and identifies the common characteristics of several iconographical research collections. Topics discussed include the reasons for the limitation of some collections to secondary subject matter, and future directions in subject access to iconographic research…

Discusses how educators can access the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database online to review summaries of more than 900,000 documents and journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Key search terms are provided, along with different access points. (CR)

This guide contains hundreds of annotated listings of books and databases that can: tell the writer where to find the facts for fiction and non-fiction; eliminate trial and error searches; and speed an information hunt so that there will be more time to write. Each entry in the guide reveals how current the material is and what the content and…

Major databases and data collection efforts related to postsecondary education are described. Database selection was limited to data that was national in scope, of broad interest, and timely (after 1972). Approximately 95 databases are covered, each of a two-page abstract that describes the subject matter and scope of the database, the data…

Major databases and data collection efforts related to postsecondary education are described. Database selection was limited to data that was national in scope, of broad interest, and timely (after 1970). Over 75 databases are covered, each on a two-page abstract that describes subject matter and scope of the database, the data collection method,…

Designed to describe and categorize the topics in a classroom or small-group discussion of literature, this instrument is a content analysis scheme. After segmenting into statements the typed transcript of an audio-recorded literature discussion, the researcher categorizes each statement into one of four categories--position, nature, stance, and…