Indexes 31of general periodicals; Readers’ Guide Abstracts, offering indexing and abstract-
ing for periodicals back to 1983; Readers’ Guide Full Text, supplying full-text
articles and indexing and abstracting beginning with 2005 issues of general
periodicals; and Readers’ Guide Full Text, Mega Edition, which delivers indexing
of more than 400 magazines back to 1983,
and full texts of articles back to 1994 from
more than 200 journals, along with other
special features, such as page images. These
online products are continuously updated,
and their coverage is updated and expanded
in an ongoing program. In 2011, H. W. Wil-
son was acquired by EBSCO. Go to www
.ebscohost.com for more information. Pro-
Quest (www.proquest.com) produces a number of online sources for peri-
odical research that offer indexing, abstracting, and the full texts of articles:
ProQuest Research Library is a database offering access to the full text of articles
from a wide assortment of trade publications, magazines, scholarly journals,
and newspapers covering a broad range of subjects. Periodicals Index Online
indexes several thousand journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
from 1665 to 1995. Citations can link to the full-text articles in Periodicals
Archive Online, another ProQuest database, or in other digital archives.
newspaper Indexes
Although there are print newspaper indexes with long publication histories,
such as the New York Times Index (1913 to the present), many more newspapers
were indexed for local content only, for
example, by obituary card files main-
tained by local libraries, or not at all.
Fortunately, digitization is changing
this, and access to many more news-
papers is now available online. Indi-
vidual newspaper websites often offer
online archives, with the full contents
of articles sometimes available only to
subscribers or for a fee.
reference tip
How can you find out if a
periodical is indexed? Entries in
Ulrich’s International Periodicals
Directory include where each title
is indexed.reference tip
If you’re trying to locate an article
in a newspaper that has not been
indexed, try searching in the print or
online index of another newspaper.
You may be able to pinpoint a date,
and with that, go to the microfilm or
paper copies of that newspaper.