A Review of Dog and Cat Behaviour in the Field, the Laboratory, and the Clinic. To find current information about your topic, you will need to consult a journal. An index is a way of looking for articles on a specific topic in a number of journals in one place rather than in individual journals. It is useful when researching a specific small animal species. It includes abstracts for the articles indexed.
Most journals have a six month or yearly index.
If you need articles from a particular journal it is sometimes easier to use the index in the journal rather than using a generic index. The materials in the Science Library generally have more of a research focus while the materials in the Vet Clinic Library are more clinically-oriented. There is a Creative browsing is another useful way of finding information. Scan the table of contents of journals to find information on current topics or research. Michigan State University Libraries Subject Guide Series No.