Articles appear in periodicals, magazines, journals, and newspapers. Magazine articles are useful for brief, general, introductory information. Journal articles from scholarly or professional journals provide more scholarly or technical information. These articles are usually written by scholars in a particular field.
Newspaper articles are good sources for current, general information.
To find references to current periodical articles, first consult one or more of the electronic periodical indexes listed below. Some full-text journals may be available electronically. Contains citations from historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals. Contains citations from journals in the social sciences and humanities. Contains citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history and related fields.