Articles in periodicals are good sources for information on topics that are currently in the news.

In this module you will learn how to

• identify an article on a topic using a general Article Index and
• use the Journal Title search to locate the periodical in the Libraries

Estimated time for completion: 15 minutes.

To locate articles, you need to use an index. Article indexes allow you to search multiple issues of magazines or journals at one time. Each index covers many journals over a wide range of years. Without an index, you would need to look through each issue of each magazine and even then, you might not find articles on your topic!

To choose an article index, go to the Libraries' home page. To continue