Use for in-depth research. Four volumes on one reel. Kept in the floor periodicals microfilm collection. Compiled by librarians at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library , it is arranged by Library of Congress subject headings. In some cases full bibliographic citations are not available.
Titles are descriptive of the content of the article rather than the exact title in most cases.
Notes provide other information such as call numbers, the incuusion of illustrations, location of the material, etc. The first indexes to be described are the indexes published by the H. W. Wilson Company. The most well known of these is Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature . If you have used this, the format of the others will be familiar to you. Libraries tend to subscribe to journals indexed here, so you are likely to find that the cited journal is actually owned by Atkins library.