FYI, the Winter 2000 issue of the Social Science Computer Review will cover computer aspects of survey research. Additional manuscripts are solicited in this area (contact David_Garson@ncsu.edu). Sample copies from jsamples@sagepub.com. The advance table of contents is:

Social Science Computer Review Volume 18, No. 4 Winter, 2000

Special Issue on Survey and Statistical Computing in the New Millenium Introduction / Randy Banks Usability of Computer Assisted Survey Instruments / Mick P. Couper From PAPI to CAPI: The Case of the British Household Panel Survey /Randy Banks and Heather Laurie What Users Want form a Tool for Analyzing and Documenting Electronic Questionnaires: The User Requirements for the TADEQ Project / Maureen Kelly Triple s XML: A Standard within a Standard / Keith Hughes, Stephen Jenkins, and Geoff Wright Data Warehousing and Decision Support at the National Agricultural Statistics Service / Mickey Yost Data Mining: New Challenges for Statisticians / David J. Hand Bridging the Quantitative Qualitative Divide: The Lexical Approach to Textual Data Analysis / Richard Bolden and Jean Moscarola

Privacy Advocacy Groups vs. Intel: A Case Study of How Social Movements are Tactically Using the Internet to Fight Corporations / Sagi Leizerov

Reports and Communications The Current Situation and Prospect of Chinese Information Resources on the Web / Yanli Qi Mass Media Use and Social Life among Internet Users / John P. Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl, and Anthony Alvarez Internet by Proxy: How Rural Physicians Use the Internet / Kimberly D. Harris and James D. Campbell An Experimental Evaluation of Web based Tutorial Quizzes / Gary Klass and Lane Crowthers

News and Notes / G. David Garson

Software Reviews Criminology: An Introduction Using Exploreit / reviewed by William F. Bengston

Book Reviews Evaluation and Implementation of Distance Learning: Technologies, Tools, and Techniques, by France Belanger and Dianne H. Jordan / reviewed by Dan Henderson Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends, and Opportunities, by Linda Lau / Reviewed by Mona Ternus and Debbie Faulk Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig / reviewed by Dee Southard Social Dimensions of Information Technology: Issues for the New Millenium, edited by G. David Garson / reviewed by Carl Grafton

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