Discusses materials available in the field of alcohol education and the organizations that produce them. Included is a resource list for audiovisual materials and a directory of publishers. (Author)

Information about drugs is a basic component of any drug education program. This information must be perceived as credible and trustworthy by the target audience. Results of 16 studies indicate that friends, mass media, and professionals rank highly for most of the population as credible, trusted sources of information. (Author)

Tips for teachers on where and how to search for state history materials. (SJL)

Discusses the common practice within the media of relying on a few "science celebrities," rather than specialists conducting relevant research, for their scientific information. Cites the marijuana controversy as an example of this situation. (JMF)

Details a study of advertising appearing on United States and Canadian television. Findings suggest that the traditional economic defense of advertising as a source of information for the consumer is a weak one. (FL)

The focus of Part Two of this series is on techniques for searching special applications in the behavioral sciences, such as grant sources, dissertation abstracts, audiovisual materials, and government publications. A sample search demonstrates the extent to which retrieval may be enhanced by exploring multiple databases for interdisciplinary…

Evaluates these two bibliographic databases for geosciences information in terms of their content coverage, search methodologies, user effort, and analysis of results. (SW)

Reporters appear to fall into three types according to the way in which they evaluate the credibility of their sources. All types demand corroboration, but they differ on the significance of intuition. (RL)

Reviews research on the family's role in eventual teenage sexual behavior. Finds fathers to be almost completely absent as sources of sex education for their children. (RH)

Highlights some of the ways in which ERIC can be helpful in preservice and continuing education as a curriculum resource, an indicator of trends, and a source of research. (DD)

Includes lists of machine-readable data bases (publicly available bibliographic data bases as well as machine-readable files associated with information and referral centers), a discussion of information and referral services, lists of major information sources for coping, a selective bibliography of coping literature, and a discussion of trends…

Provides an example of procedures to be followed when investigating a sexual harassment complaint in libraries. Highlights include preparation, including reviewing personnel files; interviewing the complainant, including sample questions; interviewing the alleged harasser; gathering information from other sources, including third-party witnesses;…

Examines a representative World Wide Web page about India to determine ways in which it addresses the "ingroup" of diasporic Indians and "outgroup" visitors to the site. Identifies several textual strategies including modes of formatting, use of language, specific selection of images and multimedia elements, and specific links…

Reed believes the proper study of psychology is not mind or stimulus-response phenomena but ways animals (including humans) encounter the world. In this view, animals are seen in environmental and evolutionary contexts; a fundamental concept is not mind or behavior but affordance or what environments offer animals; and new topics, such as…

Presents a list of commonly used elements found in a number of electronic information collection development policy statements collected by an American Library Association committee. The article concludes with a selected annotated bibliography of 14 sources relating to collection development policies for electronic information resources.…