Described is the relationship between corporations and universities involving funding and scientific research. Included is the National Science Foundations backing of collaboration in research, Exxon funds for combustion research, cooperation for automative research, and new sources of industry funding. (DS)

Describes major changes that have occurred in the chemical industry over the last 50 years including trends in the development of products and processes, changes in chemical manufacturing, the globalization of business, and modifications of research laboratory practices. Discusses implications for chemistry education and predictions for future…

Describes educators' fear that a government proposal to help accommodate new Web-surfing cell phones and other hand-held devices could end up displacing instructional-television operations. The proposal could also undermine partnerships that educational broadcasters have begun negotiating with companies to create new speedy Internet services. (EV)

Ten years of experimenting with radio programs have convinced the libraries of the Northwestern Region of North Carolina, on the edge of the Appalachians, that free air time is a godsend. (Author)

A discussion of privately printed books, subsidized university presses, commercial vanity publishing, and what an author may expect for his money from a vanity press. (LS)

Every country has its own distinctive set of problems related to copyrights and photocopying. (Author/PF)

Friends of Books and Comics presents its catalog of the Third International San Francisco Book Fair, a marketplace of alternative books, comics, and magazines. Nearly 200 alternative and small presses are listed alphabetically with address, telephone number, names of principal people involved, and a brief description of type and subject of…

The organizers of the First New York Book Fair have listed the alternative presses that brought exhibits to the fair, as well as organizations interested in the non-establishment publications scene. According to the introduction, some directions taken by the new publishers are "new life-styles, ecology, mysticism, and spiritual awareness,…

All aspects of copyrights are discussed including: (1) what is a copyright, (2) who can claim a copyright, (3) what can be copyrighted, (4) what cannot be copyrighted, (5) unpublished works, (6) copyright procedure for an unpublished work, (7) published works, (8) copyright procedure for published works, (9) copyright notice, (10) how long does…

Examples of political bias in television, the structure of the media which encourages it, and a program for citizen action against media bias are presented in this volume. (RH)

A glossary describes hundreds of radio and television terms in as non-technical a way as possible. Pictures illustrate some of the terms. (JK)

The concept of "product" underlies the choice of books to be published, as well as their advertising, design, and sale. (Author)

Our prognosis, then, is for either (a) relatively slow but steady progress in the whole micrographics picture in the near future, or (b) some major changes in the technology underlying micropublication. (Author)