Examines Internet metaphors in the titles of 100 articles published in 1995 and found in three indexing services. Analyzes criteria for assessing the usefulness of metaphors to determine the more appropriate metaphors that might successfully convey to the novice user the purposes and activities possible with the hyperlinked elements and functions…

It would be hard to squeeze over 1,750 books on middle-level school reform onto a five-foot bookcase! With 22 experts' assistance, a manageable, three-part annotated bibliography of 80 books, reports, and journal articles covering core research areas, state reports, and critical reading was assembled. Samuel Totten's own bibliography (in section…

Proves a theorem about the invariance of the Lotka function under a transformation that maps numbers of authors as variables to number of collaborators as variables. A general approach to incorporate the average number of collaborators in a production function is discussed, leading to a general framework to model multirelational data. (Author/LRW)

Offers comments, intended for writers of language arts education articles, discussing both positive and negative aspects of the writing that the editors and editorial board and staff of this journal have seen in the writing submitted over the past few years. (SR)

Selects seven journal articles that feature young adult novels and, in the commentary, covers a topic of importance in the teaching of adolescent literature: theory, social issues, history, exposition, and practice. Contains a summary of each novel, a summary of the accompanying article, as well as information about the journal and the article…

Finds that the difference between the percentage of female authors in this journal and the percentage of women in the field was not significant for four of six sample years; and differences between the percentage of female authors in this journal and in the "Quarterly Journal of Speech" was not significant for any of the six years. (RS)

Discussion of using document-management software to locate, acquire, and process articles for storage in an academic scholar's personal collection focuses on a study that examined the feasibility of using either DB/TextWorks or PageKeeper. Results favor PageKeeper due to a lower cost, ease of use, and other features. (Author/LRW)

Studied current policies and practices of scholarly journals on evaluating manuscripts for publication that had been previously published electronically. Discusses differences in practices among scholarly disciplines, and how the Internet and World Wide Web are affecting manuscript consideration policies of scholarly journals. (Contains 26…

Discusses interoperability as a key challenge to digital libraries and describes efforts of the Open Archives initiative (formerly Universal Preprint Service initiative) to develop an open architecture that supports simultaneous searching and retrieval of papers from disparate archives. Highlights include scientific information and journal…

This study investigated the collaborative patterns (internal, national, international, and mixed national and international) of 33 Nordic, United Kingdom, and Netherlands universities by analyzing institutionally co-authored articles from Science Citation Index (1993). Found no major difference between universities in articles with internal,…

Investigates the phenomena of concept similarity and conceptual information alteration in medical translation of article titles as information transfers between English and Chinese. Results showed the loss of conceptual information was much greater than the gain in both English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English translation, and there were two…

Presents a bibliography of books, articles, review essays, and reviews on technical writing published in 1999. (SG)

Describes the evolving information technologies employed at the Digital Library Initiative (DLI-I) Testbed of full-text journal articles at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Examines how XML, XSLT, and CSS can be used in a digital library application and discusses document representation and transmission, metadata schema, and…

Describes how conducting in-class symposia in which students present primary research articles can provide a window into the process of scientific research and communication; broaden student exposure to research; and improve their reading, writing, and oral presentation skills. The key to the success of this symposium format is allowing students…

Introduces three articles that appear in this issue on universalism and multiculturalism. Describes the articles as having moved beyond the debate of multiculturalism and universalism by accepting that all systems of knowledge about nature are embedded within the context of a cultural group. (SAH)