Indexes provide citations to articles.
If you need information on Renaissance painting, you would not look in Design and Applied Arts Index , since it covers craft and design journals. Be sure that the index in which you are searching covers the type of materials for which you are looking. Be sure to consider the time period of the publications within the database. If the database is only updated twice per year, you won't be able to find the citation of an article published last month. The results list shows the database that indexes the journal, and whether the journal is available in that database in full-text format.