Focusing on periodicals that consistently carry materials about reading, this contributor's guide presents two lists of information on 215 journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and yearbooks. Every periodical included appears alphabetically on each of the two lists. The first list offers information about editor, address, and editorial…

This study compared and contrasted the use of hypertext and relational database knowledge representation techniques in the analysis of qualitative data. A parallel analysis of teacher interview transcripts was conducted with two computer programs: "EntryWay," a hypertext editor, and "FoxBase+/Mac," a relational database with a…

This essay presents English-language sources which deal with the nineteenth-century Russian novel. It discusses bibliographies; bibliographic indexes and other indexes; dissertations; histories; handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias; and special studies. Twelve notes are included; a 32-item selected bibliography is attached. (SR)

Two surveys were carried out to help increase knowledge of current graph usage in science. A detailed analysis of all graphs in one volume of the journal "Science" revealed that 30 percent had errors. Graphs are used more in some disciplines than in others; a survey of 57 journals revealed natural science journals use far more graphs…

Proposes a communication model based on a general systems-general semantics perspective in which communicators and their environments are considered as interrelated parts which continually interact with each other. (RB)

The two lists in this guide contain basic information about almost 200 periodicals that consistently carry materials about reading. The information was provided by the editors of those periodicals in response to a questionnaire. Questions were asked about the audience addressed, type of materials published, processes for obtaining, reviewing and…

The two lists in this 1990 guide contain basic information on almost 200 journals, newsletters, yearbooks, and magazines that consistently include materials about reading. The first list provides such information as: address; frequency of publication; type of publication; and circulation. The second list, presented as a matrix, provides…

Computer concordancing, a form of lexical analysis that locates and gives information about all occurrences of a particular lexical item within a text, is useful in literary analysis. Concordancing programs are available for small computers in all price ranges. Applied to literary text, the programs make it possible to specify each item's…

This computer software program bibliography available from the National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse (NCSC) includes programs for college students and researchers in anthropology, economics and business, education, English and text analysis, foreign language, general interest, history, management, philosophy and religion, political science,…

In response to a request from the Research Division of the American Historical Association (AHA), the Association for the Bibliography of History (ABH) compiled a report on the options for a new history literature guide and on additional issues in history bibliography. The AHA previously conducted surveys to solicit opinions about the need for a…

A generic list of North American Chironomidae (Diptera) is presented to help aquatic biologists quickly locate important taxonomic references for the adults, larvae, and pupae of each genus. The list (in chart format) includes literature published through 1981. When recent literature is available, older references are omitted, since the purpose of…

To conduct a series of studies and to provide other researchers with texts that may prove useful in answering a variety of questions about perception in reading, it was necessary for two researchers to create pairs of texts that were different in meaning but were physically different in only one letter. These texts were created by first…

A three-dimensional model designed to depict the interrelationships among evaluation procedures, development systems, and reward structures as they affect professional personnel is offered as a research tool in this paper. The model is intended to aid in describing and understanding the productivity of professional personnel and to enhance the…

Defining audience feedback systems as technical configurations that allow viewers in their own homes to respond electronically to television programing via telecommunications networks, this report examines research into the use of audience feedback systems as a means of reducing the cost and labor of eliciting viewer opinions and attitudes to a…