CBQ Publishers of academic and professional books, journals, and software Click on computer to access your electronic subscription, view the table of contents or article abstracts, purchase a specific article, or join the table of contents alerting service. The George Washington University Assistant Editor James K. Bracken Ohio State University Editorial Scope Communication Booknotes Quarterly is a review service for books, reports, documents, and electronic publications on all aspects of mass communication, telecommunication, and the information industry. This journal enjoys the talents of some two dozen members who make up an active board of contributors. These topical and regional authorities share the quarterly production of hundreds of descriptive reviews designed for an audience of librarians and researchers in the United States and overseas. Each issue varies in content, depending on publications appearing over the previous several months.
Issues often begin with a review essay concerning publications about a specific topic.
Individual reviews will be assigned, and readers and publishers can determine the journal contributors' areas of expertise by consulting the masthead list. The final issue of each year includes an author index and a cumulative index to the year's reviews. Audience Researchers, academics, and librarians in mass communication, telecommunications, the information industry, and all related disciplines. Reviews contributed by others are considered, but the editor or assistant editor must be contacted first. For this is nothing less than the first detailed attempt at a study of the origins of the study of communications as seen through the lives and work of key figures up to about 1960.