Examples of subjects covered are business, agriculture, criminal justice, national security, the environment, natural resources, health, food and nutrition, transportation, and social services. Keyword searches look anywhere in the record for a match. A term may be searched in this list or a subject may be selected from it. Other search options include limiting to a span of years, adding additional terms to the search, and searching in a specific periodical title. While Government Periodicals Universe does not currently link directly to full-text articles, it is possible to go to agency sites and retrieve the information needed.
Links go to agency sites where full-text articles are located.
Many of the indexed periodicals are also available in paper format in the Library's government documents collection. Government document periodicals may be checked out of the library.