Other useful indexes are the Social Sciences Index Humanities Index Business Periodicals Index General Science Index Book Review Digest. Some magazines, such as National Geographic , Scientific American and Vital Speeches , have their own indexes. Use the index most pertinent to your interest, theme, speech or term paper. A key to the abbreviations and entry systems is found in the introductory part of each index. Consult the SMC Library Periodicals Holdings List to find the periodicals to which our library subscribes.
All periodicals are for library use only.
All issues of magazines and journals are shelved in closed stacks behind the Circulation Desk. The latest editions of about 20 newspapers hang on racks near the Reference Desk. You may request previous issues at the Circulation Desk or find some of them on microfilm or microfiche. Always check the SMC Periodical Holdings List for the location of various issues of newspapers, magazines and journals. To print articles from bound or unbound periodicals as well as pages from books, photocopy machines are available near the Circulation Desk and near the Reference Desk.