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Follow-up on Misrepresentation of Research Activity by Orthopaedic Residency Applicants

In our previous study, published in 1999, we showed that 18% of research citations listed as published by orthopaedic residency applicants were misrepresented. Since our last report, we sought to determine whether there had been any change in the behavior of applicants wishing to pursue the field of orthopaedic surgery. We evaluated the research citations that were identified after a review of the Publications section of the Common Application Form from the Electronic Residency Application Service for all applicants to our orthopaedic residency program for 2005 and 2006. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were established for citations listed on candidate applications. Citations were required to be from journals listed in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. The PubMed-MEDLINE database engine was used to search for citations. If searching failed to yield the cited publication, a review of the journal of alleged publication was undertaken and an interlibrary search was conducted with the use of several research databases. When no match was found, the citation was labeled as misrepresented. Misrepresentation was defined as either (1) nonauthorship of an existing article or (2) claimed authorship of a nonexistent article. One hundred and forty-two (35.9%) of 396 applicants during the 2005 and 2006 application periods listed publications. A total of 304 citations were claimed from these 142 applicants. Listings included articles that were in press or in print (thirty-four citations), articles in journals not found in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (twenty-eight citations), book chapters (twenty-three citations), and articles recorded as having been submitted (eighty-eight citations). These 173 works were excluded from our analysis. One hundred and thirty-one citations were referenced as appearing in journals per our search criteria, and all were verified. Twenty-seven or 20.6% (95% confidence interval, 14.2% to 28.7%) of 131 citations were misrepresented. The prevalence of misrepresented research publications from orthopaedic surgery residency applicants increased modestly to 20.6% compared with that found in our original report (18%). As we recommended in our last report, we strongly urge residency programs to require applicants to submit reprints of their publications with their residency applications. Perhaps standardized guidelines should be developed to help to prevent misrepresentation through the Electronic Residency Application Service.

Editorial Change and Continuity for the Journal of College Counseling

This issue, Volume 10, Number 2, marks 10 years of publication of the Journal of College Counseling (JCC). Over this time, JCC has provided its readers with 20 issues containing more than 175 Research, Professional Issues, and Innovative Practice articles. The aim of these articles was to advance the college counseling knowledge base and positively affect the day-to-day work of counseling professionals on 2- and 4-year college and university campuses. JCC is now a mature scholarly journal and remains one of the only such publications with a strong, clear focus on college counseling. Receiving JCC is an important benefit of membership in the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), a member association of the American Counseling Association. The journal is widely read by professional counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and others on campus and appears in important indexes, including Current Indexes in Journals in Education, Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Just under 25% of submissions to JCC are accepted for publication. We use an efficient electronic submission and review process, and an author's wait time between manuscript acceptance and seeing his or her article in print is as short as possible. This issue also marks a change in editors. Laura Hensley Choate of Louisiana State University has completed her tenure as JCC's fourth editor. Laura further advanced the journal's reputation. She emphasized careful writing and ensured that articles spoke to readers and offered clear implications for practice. I worked as Laura's associate editor, and I saw firsthand the energy, time, and commitment she brought to her leadership of the journal. She now turns to other scholarly work and to the demands of a growing family. I know the ACCA Executive Council and JCC's readers, authors, and editorial review board join me in thanking Laura for her leadership and hard work on the journal's behalf. Thanks to Laura, too, for her support and guidance during our editorial transition. I am privileged to begin my own term as editor as JCC prepares to enter its 2nd decade of publication. I have been an editorial board member, associate editor for research, and interim editor, and I am honored by my association with JCC. My background includes more than 20 years as a college counseling practitioner, researcher, and educator. I practiced college counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University, The University of Texas at Austin, Tulane University, and lames Madison University. I am indebted to my mentors, including Steven B. Robbins and the late John C. Jack Corrazini at Virginia Commonwealth University and Dave Drum and Augustine Baron at The University of Texas at Austin. I want to express my sincere gratitude to the ACCA Executive Council and membership for their confidence and support. There are few professional homes built especially for college counseling professionals; ACCA is an inviting organization that serves its members and the field with distinction. Old Dominion University (ODU) now hosts the JCC editorial office. Sincere thanks are due to ODU's Dean Graves, Provost Isenhour, and President Runte for their support of the journal and its mission. Douglas Guiffrida, of the University of Rochester, continues as the journal's associate editor for Professional Issues and Innovative Practice. Kelly Wester, of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, joins him as associate editor for Research. Kelly Wester also continues as the journal's statistical consultant. Both have strong ties to JCC and bring a combination of clinical expertise and scholarly acumen to their roles. A journal's editorial review board is its backbone. Board members' names and affiliations appear on the inside front cover. Finally, ODU graduate student Shabari Bhattacharyya is the journal's editorial assistant. JCC's 2nd decade promises to be an exciting one. I hope to maintain the journal's traditions and high quality and also plan new advances. …

Periodicals and proceedings in referral databases: Quantitative and qualitative estimations

Using data from Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, and the extent of coverage by abstract information resources and indices, the worldwide output of periodicals and proceedings (including those represented in electronic form) is studied. A quantitative characterization of the entire output of worldwide editions, as well as its abstracted portion is given. To provide complete reception of needed subject information and cover a maximum number of periodicals using an information system, a method for selecting several databases, which makes it possible to get a maximum coverage of primary sources with a certain amount of duplication, is proposed. Data on abstracting are obtained as the result of analyzing the input stream of approximately 700 databases and indices. Basic statistics for the abstracted stream are given for a number of companies: VINITI (All-Russia Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Russian Academy of Sciences), CSA (Chemical Abstracts Service), Thomson Corporation, Elsevier, CABI Publishing, CAS (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), and several others. A list of 25 of the largest abstract journals and referral databases, with respect to the number of periodicals represented in them, is given.

Interdisciplinary or Merely Undisciplined?: The Teaching/Research Nexus

35 Special Forum: Victorian Studies and Interdisciplinarity ciplinarity. Conferences and exchanges in journals such as Victorian Review are available, fortunately, to help us negotiate the limits and possibilities of this new interdisciplinary opportunity. Works Cited Barricelli, Jean-Pierre, and Joseph Gibaldi, eds. Interrelations of Literature. NewYork: MLA, 1982. “Lady’s Pictorial,The.” Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals 1800–1900. . • Interdisciplinary or Merely Undisciplined? TheTeaching/Research Nexus J u dith Johnston • For those who undertake both teaching and research inVictorian studies, the nexus between the two is a dynamic factor that enhances both practices. Teaching and research are inseparable in that research keeps academics in touch with the transformation of ideas and genres both within their own discipline and beyond its borders, enabling them to keep their own teaching up to date. But the reverse is also true.Teaching and eliciting responses to particular texts and ideas can provide new insights and provocatively different ways of thinking about our research.There is no more satisfactory moment in a seminar or tutorial than to realize that you have never viewed a particular text from that perspective before. Overall, then, we need to combine communicative and student-centred models of learning in which critical rigour, self-sufficiency in locating and expressing information, creative problem-solving skills, and diverse cultural awareness predominate. Interdisciplinarity, despite the shades of meaning that might attach to that term (such as might be implied in “cross-disciplinary” or “multi-disciplinary”), when included in this mix, offers university graduates and undergraduates further diversity of approaches and knowledges. Fellow panelists for this Victorian Review forum, Nancy Armstrong and Jenny BourneTaylor,both raise the issue of a“home discipline”(to quoteTaylor)—that is, the assumption that the scholar must have at least one research area that constitutes a fund of knowledge and embraces particular, though often varied, ways of reading.This basic tenet seems to me to be indisputable. However,Victorian studies scholars are fortunate that theirs is a field in which specialist demarcations have always been far less rigid than they are in other disciplines. Indeed, Matthew Rowlinson argues of the scholars involved with the first publishing victorian review • Volume 33 Number 1 36 decade of Victorian Studies (1957–67) that a demonstrable interdisciplinarity was practised then and cites the journal’s first special issue (1959) celebrating the centenary of Darwin’s Origin of Species as an instance (244). Forty years on, Linda Shires makes the point that the field calledVictorian studies“has always been committed to social and cultural approaches” and, furthermore, that “it has been laudably difficult to separate out the historians and sociologists from the literary critics” (481).We have been fortunate that our research area has rarely been nominated“Victorian Literature” even though most people immersed in Victorian studies are probably located in English departments. Nevertheless, it is not so long ago that nineteenth-century travel writing, journalism, sea-side studies, geological studies, scientific studies, botany, law, and so on—those “marginalized genres and discourses” (484) to use Shires’s terms—would never have found their way into a university Victorian studies curriculum, unless they turned up in a specific novel or a poem when their presence might be commented on.Today when we teachVictorian studies, I know that a number of these genres (and others) are now no longer marginalized, having achieved full representation in the various kinds of writing to which undergraduates are introduced, and are certainly fully represented in the critical studies that turn up in publishers’ catalogues, in series often quite simply, even disarmingly, designated “Nineteenth-Century Literature.” But what of the larger interdisciplinary issues?Are we, as Catherine Gallagher has put it, in danger of “too often being interdisciplinary all by ourselves” (254)?And is this necessarily“intrinsically wrong” (254)?While I am reluctant to engage in an argument about what constitutes being truly interdisciplinary (as opposed to, say, multi-disciplinary), I acknowledge that being interdisciplinary “all by ourselves” seems to defeat the purpose, especially if we look beyond being interdisciplinary with our more obvious fellow-disciplines such as history or European studies.What happens if we attempt to cross the greater divide into, for instance, science? Paula Gould, reviewing...

Time, Periodicals, and Literary Studies

In late 1971, Michael Wolff, discussing the need for a directory of Victorian periodicals, charted the golden stream of periodicals and argued for the ways periodical literature could be useful for social and cultural studies of the period.1 At roughly the same period, ambitious archival projects, most notably the Wellesley Index and the Waterloo, sought, in their different ways, to reveal the breadth and depth of periodicals across the century. These two projects helped to define the parameters of research for a generation of students and scholars who began to analyze in closer detail the 45 titles in Wellesley, with studies of editors, contributors, individual titles, and single contributions, and to delve further into the multitude of material uncovered by the Waterloo team. One of the difficulties in studying periodicals has always been the problem of access, even in accessing the relatively limited range of titles covered in Wellesley, compared to the vast field

Further Research is Required to Determine Which Database Products Best Support Research in Public Administration

A review of:
 
 Tucker, James, Corey. “Database Support for Research in Public Administration.” Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 24.1 (2005): 47-60.
 
 Objective – To examine the extent to which six commercial database products support student and faculty research in the area of public administration.
 
 Design – Bibliometric study.
 
 Setting – Academic library in the United States.
 
 Subjects – Six commercial business-related database products were examined: Proquest’s ABI/INFORM Global edition (ABI), EBSCO’s Business Source Premier (BSP), Gale’s General BusinessFile ASAP (GBF), EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier (ASP), EBSCO’s Expanded Academic Index (EAI) and Proquest’s International Academic Research Library (ARL). Three of the databases (ABI, BSP, GBF) were chosen because they address the management, human resource, and financing elements of public administration. The other three (ASP, EAI, ARL) were included because of their multidisciplinary coverage.
 
 Methods – A list of journal titles covering public administration was assembled from the Institute of Scientific Information’s Social Sciences Citation Index and previously published lists of recommended journals in the field. The author then compared the compiled list of journal titles against the journal titles indexed by the six database
 products. He further analyzed the results by level of journal coverage (abstract only, full-text, and full-text with embargo) and subject area based on categories described in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.
 
 Main Results – The study found that three of the six database products --EAI, BSP, and ARL -- provide indexing for the greatest number of public administration journals contained in the compiled list. EIA and ARL cover the greatest number of those that are full-text journals, while BSP and ASP cover the greatest number of those full-text journals limited by publisher embargoes.
 
 Conclusion – The author concludes that of the six databases examined, EAI, BSP, and ARL are the best for public administration research, based on their strength in the subject areas of public administration and public finance. The author also recommends that librarians in the field of public administration “carefully evaluate each database to see which one best fits the needs of the library and patrons” (56).

New Periodicals

This semiannual column selectively lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. The following resources were frequently consulted when assembling this column: International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP; http://music.chadwyck.com/), Music Index (MI; http://www.hppmusicindex.com/), RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM; http://www.RILM.org/), OCLC WorldCat and Ulrich's Periodical Directory (http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/). All Web sites were accessed on 23 November 2005 unless otherwise specified. New Titles Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO). Edited by D. Keith Wilson, US Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory. Acoustical Society of America. Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 ( July 2000). Online format (PDF and PostScript). ISSN 1529-7853. Access: http://scitation.aip.org/ARLO/top.jsp. Subscription: Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502. E-mail: asa@aip.org. $150 institutions, free individuals. ARLO is the electronic journal of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), a society devoted to all aspects of acoustics. A rapid publication journal posting articles as they become available, ARLO articles are processed on "PeerXpress—a web-based manuscript management system, which includes peer review using many associate editors and reviewers of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ( JASA). ARLO articles are searchable and linkable through the Scitation platform of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), which publishes and archives articles for ASA" (http://scitation.aip.org/ARLO/). Multimedia content is accepted. A bimonthly CD-ROM, currently only available to subscribers of JASA includes recently published ARLO articles along with the current issue of JASA. From March 1999 to September 2000 ARLO was published as a section of JASA. Articles published during this period are also available online at http://scitation.aip.org/arlo/archives/articles.jsp (PDF). All issues are browsable and keyword searchable. The subject coverage of ARLO includes speech, music and noise. In addition, ASA has a Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics, which is particularly interested in the "physics of musical sound production, psychoacoustics of musical perception, music cognition, and analysis and synthesis of musical sounds and composition." For more information on the Acoustical Society of America's Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics see: http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/tcmu/. Chaise Magazine. Coedited by Bennett Barbakow, Michelle Higa, Noah Norman, and Chris Smith. Creative Arts Council, Brown University. Semiannual. Issue 1 (2004). DVD-ROM format. Subscription or inquires: Chaise Magazine, 97 N. 3rd St., No. 1F, Brooklyn, NY 11211. E-mail: info@chaisemagazine.org. Free (postage is required). For more information and specific postage amounts see the Chaise [End Page 769] Magazine Web site at: http://www.chaisemagazine.org/. Distributed free on DVD, Chaise Magazine is a collection of art and music featuring the work of artists, animators, filmmakers, computer programmers, and composers, particularly emerging artists. An interesting collaboration between art and technology, Chaise allows for the display of art and music without the traditional mediums of gallery spaces, concert halls and record stores. The companion Web site, http://www.chaisemagazine.org/, posts exhibitions, calls for artwork, tutorials and links to other art resources, and showcases artists from the magazine. The "patented CHAISE technology can support videos, films, music, radio plays, sound experiments, photography, digital stills, interactive text, paintings, performance/installation/sculpture documentation, 2D/3D animations, MAX/MSP/Jitter applications, Director/ Flash animations, Java applets and anything else that fits on a DVD/DVD-ROM." (http://www.chaisemagazine.org/about/). DOWN Magazine: Dedicated to Southern Hip-Hop Music and Culture. Down Enterprises. Bimonthly. No. 1 ( July 2005). ISSN 1554-8945. Print format; includes a compact disc. Subscription: Down, 124 Durham Ave., Metuchen NJ, 08840. $20. For more information see the magazine's Web site: http://www.downmagazine.com/. Jeremy Miller, a former Source: The Magazine of Hip-Hop Music, Culture & Politics executive, launched DOWN Magazine because "Southern artists are dominating the charts but are underrepresented on the newsstands." DOWN attempts to provide an alternative to what Miller calls an "East Coast" perspective in mainstream coverage of...

"No Language Restrictions" in Database Searches: What Does This Really Mean?

The aim of this study was to investigate the coverage of non-English journals by MEDLINE((R)) and EMBASE, the two major biomedical databases used for identifying studies for possible inclusion in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. A series of searches were conducted to compare the coverage of journals in languages other than English. The results were compared against listings in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, an authoritative source of information on periodicals published in more than 200 countries. This study has highlighted the existence of a database coverage bias, in terms of the systematic exclusion of journals from certain countries and/or in certain languages. Searching that relies only on English language databases may result in failure to find many relevant studies published in languages other than English, irrespective of the research question and the avoidance of any language restrictions.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory TM による科学技術文献調査

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory TM による科学技術文献調査

Accuracy in the Identification of Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Journals and the Peer-Review Process Across Disciplines

The first section of this paper examines the accuracy of the two major periodical directories, Ulrich's (UL) and Serials Directory (SD), in identifying scholarly and peer-reviewed journals. There were significant discrepancies found between SD and UL. A similar difference was also found between SD and journal-provided information, while UL closely reflected journal-provided information. The second section looks at the differences and similarities in the peer-review process across 18 disciplines. Seventy-four percent of the journals used editors and outside experts as reviewers. Single-blind peer review was used by 37% of the journals, 58% employed double-blind, and 5% made use of open reviews.

Important Publications in the Field of LD in Light of Imminent topics

SYNTHESIS OF ARTICLES DISCUSSED AS APART OF THE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM AT THE 24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING DISABILITIES SPONSORED BY THE COUNCIL FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES, OCTOBER 11, 2002. Newly nominated must reads can be found on the Web at: www.cldinternational.org/shortly after the October 9-11 conference. Click on scholarly initiatives. Readers of professional literature know how difficult it is to keep up with the volumes of information published annually. Many confess to having stacks of materials waiting to be read that instead get shelved when a stack finally topples over. A total of 1,005 scholarly-academic education journals are published annually in the United States (a number that jumps to 4,708 when including trade magazines, newsletters and papers). Seventy-five of these are devoted to special education topics (311 when including trade publications) (Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, January 29, 2003). Despite the fact that busy readers can barely sample all that is published, professional publications are a primary means for communicating research, theory, and policy within the profession. Keeping up is a daunting challenge. To help special educators keep abreast of recently published research, the Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) Research Committee organizes a panel at CLD's annual conference to nominate important research publications on learning disabilities (LD) from the previous year. The audience, primarily teachers, learns about published research that is important to understanding the field of LD today. Invited panelists each year are leading researchers and practitioners from a variety of traditions and interests within the learning disabilities profession. Methods for the 2002 Panel Panelists for the October 2002 session held in Denver, Colorado, responded to the invitation to nominate three to five research publications on LD from the past year that they considered must reads. Selection criteria were not specified beyond that charge so that each panelist would be free to form her or his own standards for what is most important to read from among the stacks of research on LD that had accumulated over the previous year. Interestingly, the 2002 panelists demonstrated considerable overlap in their selection criteria and, in several instances, in the publications they nominated. In this article, the panelists present their nominations in relation to topics that dominate the special education field today. So often, researchers, teachers, and administrators fleetingly acknowledge evolving movements as they go about their business of doing what they know works. However, at times initiatives so fundamentally impact how practice can be done that they cannot be ignored. We are in such an era. Three major movements currently shaping the field of LD include the rapidly emerging debate on identification and eligibility criteria for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the now familiar practice of inclusion, and concomitant concerns for access to the general education curriculum for students with LD. None of the three movements has just burst onto the scene but their presence demands attention more than ever. The practice of inclusion has steadily emerged since at least Assistant Secretary of Education Madeline Will's 1986 regular education initiative (REI), and has received a substantial boost by the 1997 Amendments to the IDEA, which require efforts to provide all special education in general education environments. The impending congressional reauthorization vote on the IDEA has already resulted in debate on the identification and eligibility criteria for LD that would force reconsideration of current practices (e.g., LD Summit, 2001). The push for meaningful access to the curriculum is both a product of and a catalyst for the other two movements, and is strongly tied to standards and high-stakes accountability efforts as well. …

The Standard periodical directory: the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to United States and Canadian periodicals

The Standard periodical directory: the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to United States and Canadian periodicals

Victorian Bibliography for 2001

Introduction Andrew H. Miller • Introduction • Abbreviations • I. Bibliographical Material • II. History, Historiography, and Historical Documents • III. Economics, Education, Politics, Religion, Science, and Social Environment • IV. Architecture, Fine Arts, Household Arts, Performing Arts, and City Planning • V. Literary History, Literary Forms, Literary Ideas • VI. Individual Authors This seventieth annual bibliography has been prepared by the staff of Victorian Studies and a committee of the Victorian Division of the Modern Language Association of America: Andrew H. Miller, chair, Indiana University; Joseph Bizup, Yale University; Christine Bolus-Reichert, University of Toronto; Edward H. Cohen, Rollins College; Tim Dolin, University of Newcastle; Carol Engelhardt, Wright State University; Anthony Giffone, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Donald Gray, Indiana University; Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa; Julie Melnyk, University of Missouri, Columbia; Lydia Murdoch, Vassar College; Jennifer Phegley, University of Missouri; Solveig Robinson, Pacific Lutheran University; Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky; William Scheuerle, University of South Florida; Sherri Smith, Marshall University; Rebecca Stern, Ball State University; Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, Ohio State University at Lima; Andrea Kaston Tange, Eastern Michigan University; Richard C. Tobias, University of Pittsburgh. The bibliography attempts to list the noteworthy publications of 2001 (including reviews of these and earlier entries) that have a bearing on the Victorian period, as well as selected publications from earlier years that have been inadvertently omitted from preceding Victorian Bibliographies. Reference to a citation previously listed (for example, to a work cited in the Victorian Bibliography for 1998, published in the summer 1999/2000 issue of Victorian Studies, p. 776) is indicated by the form: “See VB 1998, 776.” References to the web-based 2000 Bibliography will list section number only. All “See VB” references are to the original citation. Researchers seeking reviews should examine each year of the bibliography published since the listing of the original entry. In general, subsequent citations are continued up to five years. The committee normally does not cite reviews of fewer than three hundred words. The Victorian Bibliography is organized in a six-part division. Some significant cross-references are noted, although not all that are possible. Section 1 lists both enumerative bibliographies relating to the period and studies of printing, publishing, libraries, and book production. Section 2 lists documents, general histories, and studies in historiography. Section 3 (subdivided into six parts) lists titles on Victorian economics, education, politics, religion, science, and social environment. Section 4 lists references to all arts except literature, including studies of architecture, household arts, landscape, music, painting, the performing arts, photography, and sculpture. Section 5 is exclusively given to literature, literary history, and the development of literary forms. Section 6 lists individual authors, first citing significant new editions of their works and then listing critical and biographical studies; journals devoted to individual authors are enumerated in this section in single, extended entries, but reviews appearing in their pages are listed under the title of the book reviewed. Entries in the bibliography conform as closely as possible with the mechanics of documentation described in The MLA Style Manual (1998). Initials and standard abbreviations are used regularly to provide essential information with minimal use of space. Acronyms used for journal titles are those assigned in the 1999 MLA Directory of Periodicals; for serials scanned by the committee but not included in the MLA Directory, a list of titles and their abbreviations appears below. Place of publication and publisher are often shortened (for example, NY for New York and Oxford UP for Oxford University Press); when the place of publication is clear by designation (for example, University of Chicago Press), the entry lists only the publisher. For commercial publishing houses, only the first name is given (for example, Harper for Harper and Row). The bibliography continues the policy of citing in Section 6 only publications bearing on the Victorian period for Conrad, Shaw, Wells, Yeats, and other transitional figures who published major works in the twentieth century. A more comprehensive list of current studies of these writers appears in the annual MLA International Bibliography. Related Articles: Introduction Related Articles: Abbreviations Related Articles: I. Bibliographical Material Related Articles: II. History, Historiography, and Historical Documents Related Articles: Economics, Related Articles: Education, Related Articles: Politics, Related Articles: Religion, Related Articles: Science, Related Articles...

Directory of Useful Addresses

This directory lists addresses useful to MLA members in their scholarly and professional activities. Acronyms are given in brackets following the full names of organizations. Learned and professional societies and book publishers (including university presses) known to be interested in books on language and literature are included. Journals and periodicals are not listed; readers should consult the MLA Directory of Periodicals: A Guide to Journals and Series in Languages and Literatures, which is available from the member and customer services office of the MLA. The information was updated in late spring 2000. The list is not comprehensive.

Evidence-based medicine on the Internet.

Whatever the long-term outcomes of practising evidencebased medicine prove to he for the delivery of effective health care, there is little doubt of the impact it has had on the printing and publishing industries. For example, in the past 12 months the Medline database alone has indexed more than 300 articles on this topic. Over the same period, a search of Whitaker's Books in Print for titles that contain the words 'evidence based' identifies more than a dozen new books, whilst Ulrich's Periodicals Directory records the launch of five new journals on this theme. Fear of information overload is compounded by the results of an Internet search which highlights the existence of 5000+ evidence-based medicine Web sites. The purpose of this brief article is to highlight a few resources on the Internet that can help the busy health professional understand and practise evidence-based medicine.

神経科学分野におけるコア・ジャーナルの分析

According to Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (1997), the number of newly-established journals in the field of neurological science has been tending to increase and 92 new journals were established in 1980's, the greatest number ever. In Japan, there was a correlation between the value of the impact factor and numbers of newly established holding journals. Brain Research, Neurology, and Journal of Comparative Neurology were selected as the core journals in the field of neurological science in the 1984 and 1995 edition of the two-step model targetting 85 journals in the neurological science field. The impact factor of the Journal of Neuroscience suddenly began to increase in 1988, and it was the journal with greatest increase in value in the field of neurological science. The field of neurological science, from the stand point of linkage with the physiological science field, has deepened its links with the core journals of the natural science field. This reflects the fact that the field of neurological science is rated as the research subject field at the center of the natural sciences.

Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States

Throughout the history of the United States most immigrants have arrived speaking only their native language. When population concentrations who spoke the same language arose, foreign-language newspapers often appeared to serve them. Typically, these newspapers terminated publication once the group gained command of the English language and when the influx of additional group members in the area subsided (Fishman 1966; Monmonier 1986; Emery and Emery 1988). The Spanish-language press, however, is different from other foreign-language publications. Spanish-language newspapers were published in New Orleans as early as 1808, and their presence in the Southwest predated the United States' territorial acquisition in the wake of the 1848 Mexican-American War. Over the following decades the Spanish-language press prospered in the Southwest, for the continuing influx of Mexican immigrants provided the critical impetus. By 1900 the first Spanish-language newspapers had appeared in the East. In 1990 Spanish-language newspapers in Chicago, New York, and Miami were commonplace. The historical and journalistic development of the Spanish-language press and Latin American national-origin presses and newspapers has been documented by historians and journalists for the United States and several of its regions. No attempt has been made to examine the historical geography of Spanish-language newspaper publication, however. In this note we fill that void. We focus on a series of maps that correspond to the periods 1848-1876, 1877-1899, 1900-1929, 1930-1959, and 1960-1992. These periods reflect, to some degree, historical events and immigration trends related to the Spanish-speaking population of the United States: the end of the Mexican-American War, the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the annexation of nearly half of Mexico in 1848; the conclusion of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent annexation of Puerto Rico in 1898; the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929 and the later repatriation of thousands of Mexican nationals to Mexico; and the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and the subsequent migration of thousands of Cubans to the United States. The maps portray the regional patterns of newspaper establishment for the 582 Spanish-language newspapers - including daily, weekly, monthly, and irregularly issued newspapers - published in the United States since 1848. Only the location and the time period during which they were founded are portrayed; no distinctions are made for frequency of publication. In fact, however, weeklies have dominated, representing 62 percent of all Spanish-language newspapers; the balance is divided among those irregularly issued, 26 percent; dailies, 7 percent; and monthlies, 5 percent. Our study is limited to the states and territories of the continental United States. The data are drawn from a variety of sources. The bibliographies of the Mexican American press published by Rios and Castillo (1970; 1972) provided critical data on the Spanish-language press in the Southwest. In addition, we used standard print-media reference sources, notably N. W. Ayer and Sons Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals (1933-1992); Editor and Publisher International Yearbook (1959 - 1992); Encyclopedia Directory of Ethnic Newspapers and Periodicals in the United States (1976); and Hispanic Media and Markets (1988 - 1992). EARLY DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1848 - 1876 Three initial regional concentrations of Spanish-language newspapers can be identified - California, the Upper Rio Grande Valley, and South Texas [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. All three were territories gained in 1848, and much of the population was Mexican or Hispano. Thirty-one newspapers were founded during this period, but no more than ten were ever published in any given year. San Francisco was the center for Spanish-language publishing between 1848 and 1876, for ten newspapers were published there. …

Directory of Useful Addresses

This directory lists addresses useful to MLA members in their scholarly and professional activities. Acronyms are given in brackets following the full names of organizations. Learned and professional societies and book publishers (including university presses) known to be interested in books on language and literature are included. Journals and periodicals are not listed; readers should consult the MLA Directory of Periodicals: A Guide to Journals and Series in Languages and Literatures, which is available from the member and customer services office of the MLA. The information was updated in late spring 1995. The list is not comprehensive.

Selected Guide to Employment Advertising in Health Sciences Journals

A definitive source for locating employment advertising in the journals of a health sciences subject does not exist. A search in The Serials Directory: An International Reference Book and Ulrich's Periodical Directory reveals that the entry for a title does not explicitly indicate the presence of employment ads. This article provides a selected listing of journals in the health sciences which contain employment advertisements.

MLA directory of periodicals: a guide to journals and series in languages and literatures: complete international listings

The MLA Directory of Periodicals remains the best reference source for accurate and comprehensive information about humanities journals and series. Each listing contains -- names and addresses of editors -- telephone and fax numbers -- e-mail addresses -- descriptions of scope -- languages accepted -- rules for manuscript submission -- frequency of publication -- circulation figures -- subscription prices and addresses -- advertising information -- availability on microfilm Designed with an easy-to-use format, the directory includes four indexes -- subject, editorial personnel, sponsoring organization, and language of publication -- that expedite searching and provide valuable cross-references; it also lists journals that have author-anonymous submission policies. The Directory of Periodicals is published in two editions. The unabridged, clothbound edition contains information on 3,402 journals and series published throughout the world and indexed in the widely respected MLA International Bibliography. The abridged, paperback edition includes 1,422 periodicals published in North and South America.