Remember, bibliographies contain work published well before the date of publication of the bibliography or guide. To update your list of citations, see the section on Indexes and Abstracts . A selective annotated bibliography of about 27.000 primary sources and secondary works. Indexes and Abstracts Indexes offer citations to articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on your topic. Some may provide full text articles or newspaper stories.
Abstracts offer a short summary of the article cited.
Abstracts and some full text. Full text to 800 titles. Covers 12,500 journal titles. Historical Indexes CD-ROM Index to Evans. This indexes books and pamphlets published in America from Colonial times to 1800.