InfoHawk InfoHawk is an electronic catalogue of resources in the University of Iowa Libraries' system. InfoHawk includes the titles of books, journals, and other resources in formats such as microform, video, CD ROM, and on the Internet. Articles in scholarly journals are often the best starting point for compiling a bibliography of information sources for a topic. Indexes are the tools that will enable you to locate articles about particular topics. InfoHawk contains the titles of journals in the the UI Libraries.
Indexes provide information at the individual article level.
Abstracts describing the content of articles have become increasingly common in online indexes. An abstract will provide a clearer indication of what the article is about than a title alone. In electronic indexes, the texts of abstracts are searchable. Reading an abstract is not a substitute for reading the article. Electronic indexes are adding links to the full text of journal articles.