Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Scholarly Publishing About Communication Even at journalism schools, university promotion and tenure committees don't routinely read weblogs, as far as I know. Here's a good sampling of what they do read, now online as a searchable database, Prof. Carolyn Stewart Dyer's Iowa Guide to Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields. The online edition (HTML and PDF) is at this address: http://fmp2.its.uiowa.edu/iowaguide/ To skip the "book cover" page and long database-access URLs, I made a couple of shortcuts that actually can be typed by a human or e-mailed without breaking. -- The table of contents: http://tinyurl.com/voxz -- The list of journals: http://tinyurl.com/vp1n The fact that editors can now update information about their journals gives this electronic reference book great potential. Along with journals of mass communication and communication studies from academic societies like AEJMC, ACA, ICA, NCA, etc., the database includes journals that "address communicaon in the context of another discipline, such as law or sociology, or they include communication under an interdisciplinary umbrella such as popular culture or women's studies." (Some ASIS, ACM or IEEE titles might be appropriate additions, given all of the "digital convergence" in communication.) The keyword search could use some tweaking, but is generally useful. (Be flexible. Example: Only one journal is listed under "TV," so use "television" or "broadcasting.") The selection criteria and using the directory pages explain a lot. The guide section also provides "advice on scholarly publishing especially for those new to this enterprise." Non-academic visitors looking for "writersmarket.com" should be warned that despite the traditions of "professional journalism" and the advice of Dr. Johnson, keywords like "payment" and "compensation" produce no hits in this database... as is to be expected. Note: For the latest in the debate on the issue of open access to scientific journals, see the Society for Scholarly Publishing at http://www.sspnet.org/ 2:21:53 PM

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