Describes the ERIC system and how teachers can use it. Annotates materials in the system of interest to elementary school language arts teachers, dealing with composition instruction. (HTH)

The professional journal's role in research and perceived criteria for journal publication in the sciences were examined using national surveys of agricultural journal editors and scientists in 13 disciplines. Both editors and scientists saw the value of the author's findings to the field as the most important criterion for publication. (NQA)

Examined and confirmed are differences in science and nonscience majors in the ways in which they obtain information about science and technology. Importance of these information sources was determined for each group: radio, television, newspaper, news magazine, scientific journal, family, friends, and faculty. (CS)

Describes the services offered by the National Cartographic Information Center and reviews the types of maps available from federal and state governments, local and regional agencies, and commercial and private publishers. Appendices contain a list of supplementary literature and names, addresses, and phone numbers of relevant government agencies…

Books, journal articles, newspapers and magazines, reports, and other references on fund-raising from foundations are listed and annotated. They include reports about individual foundations and groups as well as more general grantsmanship materials and studies of private giving trends. (MSE)

Considers whether the resolution of methodological criticisms of self-report research will result in greater consistency between self-reported and official data on race and class distributions of delinquent behavior. Suggests that prior self-report measures may not have been sensitive enough to capture theoretically important differences in…

The authors present information sources and retrieval techniques for persons wishing to search recent educational literature. They discuss card catalogs, bibliographies, periodical indexes, abstracting services, computer databases, interlibrary loaning, and institutional resources. In many cases they name and briefly describe specific reference…

The best sources of information on energy are the officials of the government agencies in the energy field, the editors of trade and trade and professional journals, and specialists working on energy issues. A selected list of such officials is given. (Author/MLW)

An Indiana survey of the media use of 108 older adults yielded information about their radio, television, and newspaper preferences. The results suggest that education, income, and sociability exerted as much, or more, influence on how the sample used the media than did their status as senior citizens. (GT)

Information needs are defined in relation to conceptual incongruities and the satisfaction of such needs is discussed in terms of access to varying ranges of information sources, from individual learning resources to large-scale databases. (Author/SW)

This summary of health careers literature written during the 1970s synthesizes career education concepts for use by vocational education counselors. Areas discussed include effective counseling, choosing among alternatives, improving counseling information, and sources of health occupations information. (CT)

Postcards containing a message either favorable or unfavorable for the recipient, were "lost" in the public transportation systems of Paris, Madrid, London, Geneva, and Frankfurt. More postcards were returned when the message was favorable but only in high importance conditions. This pattern did not occur in Madrid. (Author/BEF)

Tips on the effective uses of newspapers exchanged between school publications staffs. Suggestions for gleaning editorial ideas and classroom instructional topics from exchanged newspapers. (RL)

A project in a fourth-year reporting seminar at Carleton University illustrates the ease--and ethical ramifications--of using public information records to collect facts about individuals. (RL)

Examines news leaks--the calculated release of information by anonymous officials--as a means by which the mass media have been annexed to perform some of the functions of organizational and interorganizational communication. (RL)