Periodical Databases

A periodical is any publication that comes out regularly, like a magazine, journal or newspaper. A periodical database allows you to search for articles on a topic. It points to the citations of articles in a particular set of periodicals. Some contain summaries of the articles while others link to the full text (entire article).

Use when:

• you want to find articles on a topic from magazines, journals or newspapers
• you have a subject but don't know what articles cover it

Examples:

• Ebsco Academic (general topics)
• Medline (medical topics)
• Sociological Abstracts (sociology journals)