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Readers' Guide Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts a core list of approximately 300 popular magazines. Includes current events; book reviews; and music, dance, theatre, and motion picture reviews. Coverage from 1983 to the present, abstracts from 1984. Updated monthly.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref) (1904-1998)

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. Some of these periodicals published short stories and book reviews.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref.) 1904-98

Reference Universe
Indexes the individual articles and the indexes in the back of thousands of subject encyclopedias and other reference books. Provides citations to specific volumes and page numbers. Links to the sources WMU Libraries own, but doesn't contain full text itself.

RefWorks
This citation management software allows you to import citations directly from electronic indexes and create and manage your own bibliographies. Use with word processing software to cite and format references easily in a variety of writing styles. You will have to set up an individualized account the first time you use RefWorks. An excellent tutorial is available in RefWorks under Help. Tutorial

Repere
Indexes about 560 French-language periodicals in all subject areas, published in Quebec, elsewhere in Canada, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Coverage goes back to 1980 and is updated daily.

RIA Checkpoint
RIA Checkpoint is a Web-based tax accounting and corporate finance research service. RIA Checkpoint requires the Firefox browser on Macs (does not work with Safari).

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Indexes and abstracts over 475 music journals as well as dissertations, Festschriften, yearbooks, symposia, and other publications and electronic resrouces. Coverage is from 1967. Updated monthly.