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                                Elliott Parker
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                          Rev.  16 Sept 2001 (helpa)



1.0  Introduction
2.0  Explanation of subject lines and list of divisions
3.0  General searching tutorial
4.0  Search and retrieve via WWW at LIST.MSU.EDU
5.0  Comments and suggestions


1. INTRODUCTION
      Complete papers from the 1993-2001 Assn. for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
conferences and some conferences of the Broadcasting
Education Association are available in ASCII (text)
format.
           NOTE There are now two sites and several
methods of access for the papers: the original list, at
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interface site at
http://list.msu.list/archives/aejmc.html
      The content of both sites are identical.  The only
difference is the interface.
      Even if you use the WWW site at MSU, it will
probably save you time to search by subject line in
most cases.  The explanation of the subject line
is below in Section 2.0.

      **Not all papers** are included.
      Not all divisions elected to distribute their
papers electronically and some  papers were sent on
disks which turned out to be unreadable.  Also, papers
are not included if the author did not give permission
or did not sign the permission form.
      No editing has been done.  They were archived just
as received.  To give widest access through email, the
papers had to be converted to low-ASCII, so even though
all the information is present, the paper may not look
"nice."  This is particularly evident in tables or
where proportional fonts were used.  Some still have
control characters.
      In general, if papers were submitted in "pieces,"
they were recombined with the cover, or title page at
the beginning of the file, followed by the abstract,
the body, tables, references or bibliography  and
appendices.  Some pieces may be missing, especially if
they were in different directories or folders. If
several versions were submitted, the latest was
archived.
      The AEJMC "list" at both CMU and MSU is a Revised
Listserv mail distribution list, but each "message" is,
in fact, a paper.  No messages can be sent to the list
and there is no automatic distribution, but all regular
Listserv commands will work.
      Upper and lower case letters can be mixed.  The
machine is case-insensitive.  To the machine, Parker,
parker, and ParKer are equivalent.

2.0  EXPLANATION OF SUBJECT LINE AND LIST OF DIVISIONS
    Each paper has a subject line.  The first three
letters indicates if it is a paper from AEJMC or BEA.
The next two digits indicate the year.
      The lead author of the paper is indicated next.
This is formed by taking the first seven letters of
their last name followed by the first letter of the
first name; e. g., AbrahamD is the abbreviation for
David Abrahamson.
      This is followed by the abbreviation, in the case
of  AEJMC, in which the paper was presented:

      ADV   Advertising
      ADVW  Advertising and commission on the  status of
            women
      CCS   Cultural and critical studies
      CJ    Civic journalism
      CTM   Communication theory and methodology
      CTP   Communication technology and policy
      DIS   Media and disability interest group
      ENT   Entertainment studies interest group
      ETH   Media ethics
      GLF   Lesbian, gay and family diversity interest
            group
      GRAD  Graduate education interest group
      HIS   History
      INTL  International
      IP    or (INTERN) Internships and placement
            interest group
      IRE   Council of Affiliates (IRE Competition)
      LAW   Law
      MAC   Minorities and communication
      MAG   Magazine
      MCS   Mass communication and society
      MME   Media management and economics
      NWS   Newspaper
      PR    Public relations
      QS    Qualitative studies
      REL   Religion and media
      RTVJ  Radio television journalism
      SCH   Scholastic journalism
      SCI   Science communication interest group
      SMP   Small programs
      TFCUR Task force on curriculum
      TEACH Teaching Standards
      VC    Visual communication
      WOMAN Commission on the status of women

      And last, the title, abbreviated title, or list of
keywords.

3.0  GENERAL SEARCHING
      An excellent tutorial to Listserv searching can be found at
      http://www.brainyday.com/jared/search.htm

4.0  SEARCH AND RETRIEVE VIA WWW AT LIST.MSU.EDU
      Most people will prefer searching and accessing
      the papers via the World Wide Web interface at
      http://list.msu.edu/archives/aejmc.html
      To save time and focus a search, the subject line
      can be used.
      For instance, entering "AEJ 01" in the subject box
will give a list of papers presented at the 2001 AEJMC
conference. (Terms are connected with a Boolean "and" by default)
Using the subject line syntax, quick searches can be
run for division, author, subject or some combination.
      Entering a term or terms in the "search for" box
with no qualifiers will search for a text string in more than 2000
papers (107 megabytes).

5.0  COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS

      If you have comments or suggestions, let me know.

Elliott Parker
Associate Professor
Journalism Department
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859

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