First Year > Environmental Design > Finding Articles: using Indexes

Finding an article is a little more complicated than finding a book. Although the titles of journals and magazines are included in the Bison catalogue, the titles of articles within the journals are not. That means that you can search the BISON catalogue to confirm that the Architecture/Fine Arts Library subscribes to Architectural Design, but you will not be able to find out what articles are included in each issue.

To find articles, you must use an article index(also known as a periodical index), available through E-Library.
In this section, you will learn:

• what an article database is,
• what information you can find in a database,
• how to search a specific database such as the Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals (also known as Avery), to find a list of articles,
• how to find an article that is listed in a database,
• how to choose a database from the thousands the University of Manitoba Libraries subscribes to.