Ask the Reference staff to recommend appropriate indexes for your topic. For articles in scholarly journals, use the computerized indexes for specific fields of research and print indexes in the Reference Area at the counters arranged by subject, or the databases through the Library Homepage . Other more specialized indexes are shelved in the General Reference Collection. Ask the Reference staff for help. STEP 2 Look up your subject in an index.
Computerized indexes have special procedures.
See the Library User Guides related to them. For print indexes, under each subject term is a list of articles that have appeared on that subject during the time covered in that index. Each item in the list is called a citation, and each citation includes the information needed to find the article. Choose the articles that sound interesting, and copy the citations. Check the front of the index for meanings of abbreviations given in the citations.