However, books often do not contain the most recent information. If you are researching a current topic, magazine or journal articles are a good source of information. You can use a journal index to locate articles just as you used the online catalog to locate books. Articles in magazines such as Time, People and Sports Illustrated , and more scholarly journals such as Administrative Management and The Journal of Nursing Management are accessed by subject using various journal indexes. Indexes tie together journals and articles on your subject.
Subject headings are always in alphabetic order.
If you are having difficulty locating your subject in an index, remember that there may be more than one way to list a subject. Each subject area has its own journal index. For example, business articles are indexed in Business Source , nursing articles are indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature , and education articles are indexed in Education Index . Be sure you are using the correct index for your subject. A citation is a term used to refer to each entry listed in an index.