On-Line Literature Searching as a Research Method: Geographic Bias in the Print Media.

Cohen, David A.

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Publication Date: 1986

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On-Line Literature Searching as a Research Method: Geographic Bias in the Print Media.

Cohen, David A.

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, v6 n1-2 p101-10 Fall-Win 1986

This example of online searching, employed as a research method rather than as a tool to gather bibliographic information, used Magazine Index to collect data which were manipulated using geographic codes and compared with the buildings of a 1977 study on geographic bias in television news reporting. (EM)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bias, Broadcast Television, Data Collection, Databases, Geographic Regions, Higher Education, News Media, Online Searching, Periodicals, Research Tools

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Media Staff; Practitioners

Language: English

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