Researching Periodicals
How to do research on magazines and newspapers.
Books about magazines
Indexes to Secondary Literature
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Communication & Mass Media CompleteProvides coverage of more than 500 journals in the communication and mass media fields, including full-text for more than 230 journals. Coverage for significant titles in the field goes back to their very first issue (as far back as 1915).
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Art Source with Art Index RetrospectiveFor articles on art and design. This is a good starting place for scholarship on illustration.
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ARTbibliographies ModernAbstracts of articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs & reviews, and dissertations covering artists & movements from the late 19th century to all aspects of modern & contemporary art, including photography from its invention in 1839 to the present.
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International Index to Black PeriodicalsProvides indexing for 127 currently published scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies, with links to full text from 40 of them. Also provides retrospective indexing for 45 older periodicals.
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GenderWatchA full text database of 140 international publications devoted to women's and gender issues, including scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, plus reports, pamphlets, papers and conference proceedings.
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ABI/Inform GlobalFull text access to more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.
*Note* Once you get to the search page, you can click on "ABI/Inform Complete" to search trade journals as well. -
Readers Guide Full TextIndexes and briefly summarizes articles from 375 popular periodicals published in the U.S. & Canada.
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Nexis UniProvides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines.
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Ethnic NewsWatchA full text database of 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Directories
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Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory (online--includes current year)Provides bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types–-academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, refereed (i.e. peer-reviewed) titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more--from around the world.
Directories to periodicals can be a valuable resource for finding basic information about a magazine, including the publisher, price, and circulation.
This list is just a starting point; to find more, search Library Catalog Search by the subject term "American Periodicals--directories."
Last Updated: Aug 14, 2025 12:56 PM
Subjects: General Information Sources