Databases are searchable by subject, author, title or keyword and provide the citation and abstract to articles. A few databases display the full-text of the article. This useful collection is now available at no charge to Michigan students and faculty through a library services grant and the Library of Michigan. This site is compiled by MEL, the Michigan Electronic Library. Some links are the destination source while others provide menus to lists of individual reference sources.
Most sources provide short, concise answers rather than in-depth information.
While a wide variety of topics are covered there is an emphasis on local and state information. Periodicals Contents Index is an electronic index to millions of articles published in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences since 1770. Journals have been selected for indexing in PCI with reference to over sixty major serials bibliographies and union lists and in consultation with specialist librarians around the world. Every effort is made to provide a complete record of publication for each journal. PCI's scope is world-wide and includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and other Western languages.