If you want articles from scholarly or research journals , ask a library staff member to recommend an index for your topic, or look at the topic list on FirstSearch. If you want popular or substantive articles of general interest, use Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature , available in print form and electronic form via FirstSearch . If you want newspaper articles , use ProQuest or Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe . All periodicals in the Wells Library are shelved alphabetically by title . Back issues of periodicals are bound for the most part and shelved on the first floor of Long Library.
Some older volumes are on microfiche or microfilm.
Their location is noted on the Periodicals List . Current issues of newspapers are shelved on the Newspaper Rack near the Main Desk. Older issues of the New York Times and the Auburn Citizen are on microfilm behind the Main Desk. Current issues and bound volumes of some periodicals in the sciences are shelved in Zabriskie Hall. Bound volumes of art periodicals are shelved in Morgan Hall.