An Article Database

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

Some article databases contain abstracts or brief summaries of the articles. A few contain the full text or entire content of whole articles as they originally appeared in the periodical.

Online article databases, purchased by the University Libraries are accessible from the library Web site. The library also owns print indexes, good for researching older materials. For example, the New York Times print index goes back to 1851!

Use an Article Index

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

Examples of Article Indexes

• Periodical Abstracts (a general article database)
• Social Sciences Abstracts (a database covering the social sciences)
• ABI/Inform (a business article database)