For example, although the library does not subscribe to the American Indian Culture and Research Journal , articles from it are available online through a periodical database called WilsonSelect . Articles from this journal are available through this database to anyone who has a computer hooked up to the Ithaca College network. How to locate periodical articles There are several ways to locate periodical articles. To do a thorough job of research, more than one method must be employed. The most systematic means of locating periodical articles is to consult periodical indexes and abstracting services .
Periodical indexes provide bibliographic information about articles in a specialized arrangement.
Most periodical indexes in the Ithaca College Library are now available online in periodical databases that the Library subscribes to. The normal approach to locating the information is through the subject of the article. By searching a subject heading or keyword you will first locate bibliographic citations. Citations will usually include the name of the author, the title of the article, the title of the periodical, the date of publication, the volume number, and the pages on which the article can be found. Additional information may include an abstract, and a growing number of databases not only index articles, but provide the full text.