What are Periodical Indexes (or Databases)?
The library subscribes to many general and subject specific indexes, both in paper and online, in which you can find citations to articles by a particular author or on a certain topic. Usually the index will have a scope that defines what the index covers. This will include: • The subject that the index covers • A list of all the journals that the index covers (often in the thousands and usually includes all of the journals that are published in a given field) • Sometimes they will cover just journals, though some also cover conference proceedings, thesis, book reviews, and chapters from edited themed books. • Sometimes they will cover just articles that are relevant to the database from certain general science periodicals, (i.e. Science, nature, Scientific American, etc.) • Years of coverage. The way the indexes are created is that whenever a new issue of a journal that they cover comes out the index creators will create a bibliographic record for each article in the journal. This cit
