PRINT INDEXES FOR PERIODICAL
AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
PRINT INDEXES FOR
ARTICLES
IN GENERAL AND POPULAR PERIODICALS
The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature is an easy to use print index which indexes articles in over 200 popular periodicals, e.g., Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, etc. This index is excellent for locating articles on a wide variety of topics. The main body of the index consists of subject and author entries to periodical articles arranged in one alphabet with a list of book reviews following the main index.
Older copies of The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature will be bound into yearly cumulations for each year. Recent publications will be in monthly paperback formats.
An example of a citation in The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature will look like this:
In order to retrieve a copy of the periodical and quickly find the article, you will need to note:
- the title of the magazine
- the date of the magazine
- the page numbers of the article
The library will not subscribe to all the periodicals that are indexed in The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Ask for a listing of the library's periodical holdings to determine which magazines will be available at the library you are using. Titles of periodicals owned by the DCCCD libraries will be listed in the DCCCD Library Catalog.
Current and recent publications will probably be available in the original print, unbound format. Older publications may be in bound volumes, on microfiche, or on microfilm. The library will have special machines for you to use in reading and printing articles from microfiche or microfilm, and someone will assist you in using the machine.
SIRS - Social Issues Resources Series. These large notebooks, each devoted to a broad topic like Youth, Economics, Pollution, School, etc., contain a selection of many excellent articles reprinted from a variety of original sources. An index to the entire series is in the front of each notebook and in specially marked notebooks. An electronic version of SIRS is available at the DCCCD libraries.
PRINT INDEXES FOR
ARTICLES
IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
For research that requires the use of journal articles of a scholarly nature the following indexes are suggested, although they may or may not be available at smaller libraries:
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PRINT INDEXES FOR ARTICLES
IN NEWSPAPERS
- NewsBank Index - an index to newspaper articles published in over 450 United States newspapers (including the Dallas Morning News). Full text of each newspaper article is provided on microfiche. The index is also available in electronic format at the DCCCD libraries.
- New York Times Current Events Edition Index - an index to articles on microfiche covering significant news, editorials, and special features selected from the daily and Sunday New York Times. Also available in electronic format at the DCCCD libraries.
- Wall Street Journal Index - an index to national and business news. Also available in electronic format at the DCCCD libraries.
- Editorials on File - an index of editorials reprinted from U.S. and Canadian newspapers.