It indexes articles back to 1989 with abstracts, or short summaries of most articles. It also offers the full-image of some periodicals back to 1993. Laser printouts are available for a small printing fee. Proquest is no longer being updated as of October 1999. Academic Search is a general index to magazine, recent newspaper and selected journals with a far-ranging scope.
Printouts are available for a small fee.
ProQuest and Academic Search are good first steps in beginning your search for articles. Remember, articles that can't be printed as full-text or image may be available elsewhere in the Library. Reader's Guide is a general index that covers a wide range of subjects. It covers more popular magazines like Time and Newsweek than scholarly journals. It is published monthly and an annual volume is produced every year.