Aims to promote communication among all participants in the scholarly publishing process in the interest of enhancing professional goals, standards, and accomplishments. Discusses the submission of manuscripts, the evaluation and the publication of books and articles. (SG)

Considers how communication scholars who write a large number of articles remains the same, despite changes to ranking methods. Finds that there is a substantial similarity between authors who are frequently cited by others and the number of articles that have been published by these authors. Discusses how the most frequently published authors of…

Presents results of a survey of five volumes of the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)," one for each decade of JASIS's existence. Discusses findings related to growth of JASIS and authorship, national versus international authorship, coauthoring of papers, author productivity, author gender, author…

Summarizes a review of the last twenty years of "Elementary School Guidance and Counseling" journal. Reflects on topics covered, accesses, describes the work settings of senior authors, and the kinds of interventions advocated that have influenced the practice of school counseling practice. The highest percentage of articles were…

This study examines publishing and indexing patterns in the area of digital libraries to identify the core journals and the most effective descriptor terms for online searching. Results show that indexing is inconsistent and subject searching is unreliable for full retrieval. (Author/LRW)

This study used citation analysis and ordinary least squares regression to investigate the relationship between an article's citation rate and its degree of interdisciplinarity in one area of environmental science, namely forestry. Findings provide empirical evidence that interdisciplinary methods have made a measurable and positive impact on the…

Investigates, using 24 scholarly journals, the typical rate of publishing among student researchers published in communication journals in 1994-1998. Presents a ranking of student researchers in terms of article research productivities. Notes what research journals most student researchers publish their work. Provides averages in both fractional…

Work has been performed on a fully automated approach for the general categorization of documents based on a training set of document titles and abstracts and journal-level indexing of the journals in which the documents are published. The goal of this research is to automatically index documents using a consistent, timely set of controlled…

This report, prepared by an international working group, addresses what constitutes publication in science in the electronic environment. Topics include the importance of defining publication in science; the distinctions between first publication and definitive publication; the challenges inherent in the publication process; and the necessity of…

Describes the PrePRINT Network, initiated by the Department of Energy to provide access to online preprints and reprints in the sciences and some areas of technological development. Discusses posting preprints on the Internet to improve scientific communication; and explains other Web-based products created to provide scientists with professional…

Describes the manuscript review process at "Library Quarterly," discussing the accepted manuscript; the revise and resubmit manuscript; the rejected manuscript; and unethical conduct. Provides a "Library Quarterly" time to decisions table (overall days to decide acceptance, revision, or reject) by year (1996-2000). Includes the…

Presents a comparison of access to full-text articles from a free bibliographic database (PubSCIENCE) for affiliated and unaffiliated users. Found that affiliated users had access to more full-text articles than unaffiliated users had, and that both types of users could increase their level of access through additional searching and greater…

Tabulation of first authors in 16 selected educational journals between 1986-96 revealed a total of 1,530 individuals who wrote two or more articles in at least one publication. The top 31 authors published in a few journals; 10 of these are independent writers or consultants, the rest faculty. (Contains 23 references.) (MLH)

This study examined how frequently psychology professors at liberal arts colleges assign primary source readings. Professors provided information on 576 courses. Frequent use of primary sources suggests that professors view such readings as a valuable component of the psychology curriculum. Professors assigned primary source material in 70.8% of…

Following up on an earlier issue of "The Curriculum Journal" (Vol. 16, No. 1), this article focuses on learning outcomes in the context of video games. Learning outcomes are viewed from two theoretical frameworks: Kirkpatrick's levels of evaluation and the CRESST model of learning. These are used to analyse the outcomes claimed in journal articles…