Search methods on specific topics selected by the individual faculty in their discipline are demonstrated. Worcester State College students enjoy the benefit of reduced costs for these online searches. It also offers online search services for the students and faculty of area colleges at a percentage of the cost incurred. The Periodicals Department houses the 1600 periodicals, magazines, journals and newspapers owned by the Library in order to support the College's curriculum. More than 1000 of these are current subscriptions.
Some periodicals are available in both paper and microfilm formats.
In whatever format, periodicals are shelved in alphabetical order by title. Because they are heavily used for research, periodicals never leave the building and do not circulate. The WSC Alphabetical List of Periodical Holdings is a complete list of all the titles in this collection. If we do not own a needed periodical, the Worcester Area Union List of Serials identifies 35,000 periodical holdings in 31 other research libraries in the Worcester area. Additionally, an increasing number of periodicals are available full-text online.