Use periodical indexes and abstracts to update older material or to compare recent events with past events or to find information of current interest. Both popular and scholarly journals are indexed in the general and political science indexes listed below. Popular magazines have short articles that are written to inform or entertain the general public. These articles are rarely footnoted, or do they give the source of information. Such articles are written by writers on the staff of the magazine.
Scholarly journals have articles that are lengthy and list references in footnotes.
These articles are written by authors who have conducted research in the field of interest and who are usually affiliated with a university or research centre. Indexes approximately 600 journals and newspapers. Has subject and author index. This provides abstracts of scholarly and significant books, reports and articles from 600 journals, produced worldwide. Annual author and cumulated subject indexes.