Connect now to the online catalog . Ask a librarian at the Information Desk for any additional help you need. These include newspapers, general magazines, scholarly and professional journals. To find newspaper, magazine or journal articles on a subject you must use a periodical index or abstract. Each periodical index covers a subject area, i.e., business, social sciences, etc.
Some periodical indexes cover specific areas of a subject, i.e., chemistry, nursing, etc.
Most periodical indexes and abstracts are arranged in dictionary form with subject and author entries. Indexes will list basic information such as the author and title of the article, the journal or newspaper title and the volume number, page number and date of the journal. Abstracts will give short descriptions of the research emphasized in the article. The library has many indexes and abstracts which cover a variety of subjects. Some of these are in an electronic version.