What are Periodicals?
A periodical is any publication
that is issued at regular intervals.
Magazines, newspapers, and
journals are all types of periodicals.
Periodical Indexes: Finding Articles on Your Topic
Search by subject or keyword
in a periodical index to find citations to articles on your topic.
The library subscribes to both print and electronic indexes. The electronic
databases are easier to search and might also have the full text of
the articles cited in your results.
Begin by choosing a subject
from Periodical
Indexes by Subjects. When you look at the table of databases in
your subject, note that periodical indexes are highlighted in yellow,
and that the far right column of the table indicates whether or not
full text articles are available.
Finding the Full Text of Your
Article
If a full text link is not
available for an article cited in your search results, search in EJS
(using your article citation information) or in TDNet
(using the title of the periodical that your article appeared in)
to see if the full text is available from an e-journal subscription
or from a different library database.
To see if we subscribe to
the printed version of a periodical, search the Library
Catalog. Use the browse search and select “journal title”
from the search type menu.
If the periodical you need
is at your home campus library, you can retrieve and photocopy the
article yourself. If it is at another Blinn College campus library,
complete an article request form in the library (or the online
article request form) to have a copy of the article sent to your
home campus.
