Periodical literature--popular, professional and scholarly journal or newspaper articles-- are excellent sources of current and specific information on a multitude of subjects.

Looking for magazine or journal articles?

• Modern researchers have access to the full-text of thousands of periodical articles through large databases such as Ebscohost and Infotrac.  Such indexes provide the full-text of some and bibliographic access to many more periodical sources. Lexis Nexis Academic provides the full-text of local, national, and international newspaper articles and legal sources from the last two decades.

Want other sources of full-text periodical articles?

• Though the large general databases already mentioned provide much useful information, for the most relevant, authoritative, and scholarly coverage of topics, researchers must often refer to specialized bibliographic databases that do not always offer the full-text of articles. For a complete listing of these databases available to our patrons, look under the All Databases links. Not all offer links to full text of articles so check Pilot by periodical title to see if full-text is available from one of our other databases.

Finding Referreed Journals

What do you do if the Library does not own the magazine/journal that I need?

• If the Library cannot provide access locally to a journal article, you can submit an Interlibrary loan order online from ILLIAD  on the library’s web page or coming into the library and submitting a paper ILL request. Items ordered on ILL are often available within a week of initial request.

Finding full titles for journal abbreviations.

• Abbreviations for journal titles can often be located in Entrez Pubmed, and  choose Journals Database.