An index is a tool which helps you find citations to journal articles as well as dissertations, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical reports, and patents on different topics. This is an example of the index Biological Abstracts 2. Clicking on any of these subject headings will bring up an alphabetical list of Journal Indexes which you can use to find articles in your subject area. Sometimes, more than one subject heading may relate to your topic. Divide your statement into major concepts.
Different databases have different truncation symbols.
Thesaurus terminology or subject headings control for different ways of saying or spelling a concept and using them gives you better results. Put one concept per line when entering search strategy into an index Limit your results by publication type, language, publication year, etc. to narrow your results 4. Not every journal listed in an index will be available at the UofT Libraries. The UofT Library will most likely have the major journals. If a list of titles appears type the number corresponding to item of interest Type B on your keyboard to see the library location If you cannot find the journal in UTCat, do not assume the library does not have it.