From: SUPPORT@RPIECS.BITNET (Comserve Support Staff)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.commed
Subject: Announcements of general interest within Comserve's community ...
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:49:04 GMT
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Special announcement, distributed jointly over Intercom and Newsline:

 Summary --

 *  Communication Institute for Online Scholarship electronic
    bibliographic search systems expanded. ComIndex and Comserve's
    Journals Index now cover 37 journals, 16,250 articles.

 *  ComIndex(tm) personal computer software version 2.0 from the CIOS
    puts Comserve's Journals Index on department, library, or personal
    desktop computers. Program features full screen graphical interface,
    built-in help, supports browsing and viewing of keyword
    dictionaries.

 *  Ordering information for ComIndex / Gaining access to Comserve
    Journals Index

 *  Table of journals covered in Comserve's Journals Index and ComIndex

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                     CIOS Announces New Electronic
                  Tools for Communication Scholarship

    The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship now provides two
electronic tools for conducting literature searches in the communication
area:  Comserve's Journals Index and ComIndex.  Both systems permit
title and author searching in a database of 16,250 articles from 37
journals from the core literature of the international communication
discipline.  A two-year project to expand coverage has been completed
recently and the databases now represent an unprecedented resource for
communication scholars and students.  It has never been easier to
explore the literature of the communication discipline.

    Looking for a compilation of the work of a particular scholar?
ComIndex and Comserve's Journals Index make it convenient to build
bibliographies by author.  Track the work of any communication scholar,
locating all their single or co-authored publications within a twenty
year span of 37 journals.

    Need to locate articles treating a particular subject?  Search by
title for any word or word segment.  Cut days from literature reviews by
exploring the literature electronically.

    These resources are not only for established researchers and
scholars.  Students will find these systems beneficial in researching
topics for class papers.  Faculty are invited to consider sending
students to Comserve or ComIndex as a routine first step in locating
resources for research papers.  Ask your campus librarians to order
ComIndex for your library so that this resource can be generally
available to your campus community (see below for more information).
ComIndex and Comserve's Journals Index can help graduate students
prepare for comprehensive exams.  Students preparing for job interviews
can use these tools to learn about the research foci and areas of
scholarly interest of faculty from departments of interest.

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                   ComIndex(tm) Ordering Information

    ComIndex is available now for individual purchase or for library or
departmental site licences.  More information about hardware require-
ments and the manner in which the software works is available in a
user's guide for ComIndex.  An electronic copy of the guide can be
obtained from Comserve's database by sending the following command to
either Comserve@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or Comserve@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet):

                         Send comindex userguid

    To obtain ComIndex ordering information, send this message to
Comserve:

                          Help Topics ComIndex

    Please consider asking your campus librarian or communication
department chairperson to consider obtaining ComIndex.  ComIndex
departmental and library site licenses are quite inexpensive, providing
a way to make this resource available to faculty and students throughout
the campus.

    To recommend ComIndex, simply cut and print the following text and
send it through campus mail to "Head of Acquisitions, Library".

      I've recently learned of a new electronic index to the
      communication literature published by the Communication
      Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization
      of communication scholars and students.  Would you please
      investigate the possibility of obtaining this resource for
      public access in our library?  The product is called "ComIndex"
      and the CIOS can be reached by writing to:

                                ComIndex
             Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
                              P. O. Box 57
                 Rotterdam Junction, New York 12150 USA

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          Gaining Access to Comserve's Journals Index Service

    While index data bases for eight journals are available through
Comserve for public searching, a majority of journals in Comserve's
Journals Index are reserved for those who help support Comserve by
becoming Associates of the Communication Institute for Online
Scholarship.  For information about becoming an Associate, send this
message to Comserve:

                         Help Topics Associates

    Associates can also perform global searches using the reserved ALL
option of the JSearch command.

    For more information about Comserve's Journals Index, send this
message to Comserve:

                          Help Topics Journals
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                        Journals Covered Within
                  Comserve's Journals Index & ComIndex


                                         Years                 Number of
Name of Journal                          Available    Volumes  References

Asian Journal of Communication           1990 - 1991    1-1      14
Australian Journal of Communication      1982 - 1990    1-17    167
Canadian Journal of Communication(6)     1978 - 1991    5-16    240
Central States Speech Journal(5)         1970 - 1988   21-39    630
Communication                            1974 - 1991    1-12    200
Communication Education(7)               1976 - 1991   25-40    667
Communication Monographs(2)              1977 - 1991   44-58    383
Communication Quarterly(8)               1975 - 1990   23-38    493
Communication Reports                    1988 - 1991    1-4      61
Communication Research                   1974 - 1991    1-18    534
Communication Studies(5)                 1989 - 1990   40-42     48
Communication Theory                     1991 - 1991    1-1      21
Communication Yearbook(1)                1977 - 1991    1-14    541
Critical Studies in Mass
           Communication                 1984 - 1990    1-7     240
Discourse Processes                      1978 - 1990    1-13   278
Electronic Journal of Communication /
 La Revue Electronique de
           Communication                 1990 - 1991    1-2      15
European Journal of Communication        1986 - 1990    1-5     197
Free Speech Yearbook(1)                  1962 - 1991    1-29    270
Human Communication Research(9)          1974 - 1991    1-17    488
Issues in Applied Linguistics            1990 - 1991    1-2      48
Journalism Quarterly                     1970 - 1991   47-68   2324
Journal of Applied Communications
   Research(10)                          1973 - 1980    1-8      86
Journal of Applied Communication
   Research(10)                          1981 - 1991    9-19    129
Journal of Broadcasting(3)               1970 - 1984   14-28    622
Journal of Broadcasting and
     Electronic Media(3)                 1985 - 1990   29-34    289
Journal of Communication                 1970 - 1990   20-40   1387
Management Communication Quarterly       1987 - 1991    1-4      99
Mass Comm Review                         1973 - 1991    1-18    192
Media, Culture and Society               1979 - 1991    1-13    311
News Computing Journal                   1984 - 1991    1-7     170
Operant Subjectivity                     1977 - 1991    1-14    157
Philosophy and Rhetoric                  1968 - 1990    1-23    741
Public Opinion Quarterly                 1970 - 1991   34 55    919
Quarterly Journal of Speech              1970 - 1991   56-77    882
Research in Language and Social
           Interaction                   1987 - 1991   20-24     77
Rhetoric Review                          1984 - 1991    1-9     200
Southern Speech Journal(11(              1970 - 1971   36-36     23
Southern Speech Comm. Journal(11)        1971 - 1988   37-53    456
Southern Communication Journal(11)       1988 - 1991   54-56     74
Speech Monographs(2)                     1970 - 1976   37-43    273
Speech Teacher(7)                        1970 - 1975   19-24    279
Today's Speech(8)                        1970 - 1974   18-22    149
Western Speech(4)                        1970 - 1975   34-39(1) 153
Western Speech Communication(4)          1975 - 1976   39(2)-40  45
Western Journal of Speech Comm.(4)       1977 - 1991   41-55    412
Women's Studies in Communication         1977 - 1991    1-14    114
Written Communication                    1984 - 1990    1-7     153

                              -- Notes --

    1. An annual volume rather than a serial.
    2. Speech Monographs is continued by Communication Monographs.
    3. Journal of Broadcasting is continued by Journal of Broadcasting
and Electronic Media.
    4. Western Speech is continued by Western Speech Communication,
which is continued by Western Journal of Speech Communication.
    5. Central States Speech Journal is continued by Communication
Studies.
    6. Volumes 1 through 4 of the Canadian Journal of Communication
appeared under the title "Media Probe".  Media Probe is not in a format
that permits indexing and has been excluded from Comserve's Journals
Index and ComIndex.
    7. Speech Teacher is continued by Communication Education.  ERIC
reports and reviews of non-print educational resources are not included.
    8. Today's Speech is continued by Communication Quarterly.
    9. Human Communication Research published two ``Winter, 1983"
issues, one associated with volume 9, the other with volume 10.
    10.  Journal of Applied Communications Research is continued by
Journal of Applied Communication Research.
    11.  Southern Speech Journal is continued by Southern Speech
Communication Journal, which is continued by Southern Communication
Journal.

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