An Article Index

Article indexes (also called periodical indexes) include the citations of articles in magazines, journals and newspapers.

Article indexes were originally published in paper. Now many are online.

Some article indexes contain abstracts or brief summaries of the articles. Many online article indexes now contain the full text or entire content of whole articles as they originally appeared in the periodical.

Online article indexes, purchased by the SE Library are accessible from the library Web site. The library also owns print indexes, good for researching older materials. For example, the Readers Guide print index goes back to 1915!

Use an Article Index

• when you want to find articles on your topic in magazines, journals or newspapers

Examples of Article Indexes

• Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (a general article index)
• Biography Index (an index to articles about people)
• ABI/Inform (a business article index)
• Academic Search Premier (an index of academic periodicals)