You can limit your searches by date, tyupe of material, library location and language. We suggest that you ust eh Telnet version of UTCat, as the new web interface is still being fine-tuned. Most periodical indexes only tell you where you can find a particular article by giving you a citation that includes the author and title of the article, the periodical in which it is published, the date, volume number and pages. Sylvia Bashevkin Canadian Journal of Political Science. Many indexes may also include an abstract or short summary.
None give library locations.
It does NOT list title of articles within periodicals or books. In the past few years publishers of printed periodical indexes have created electronic verions of hteir indexes. Lirary now subscribes to voer 400 online indexes and abstracts. Anyone may search these indexes in the library, but only students, faculty and staff may search these from home or office computers. Some of these indexes are only in CD-ROM format and are located in the subscribing library.