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:
Article databases are created by companies that employ people to read thousands of journals and magazines and select important articles. They are organised by subject or discipline, such as medical journals or art history journals.
For each article that is selected, an employee enters basic information about it such as: the author's name, the article title, the journal title, the volume, the page numbers, an abstract, and sometimes even the entire article) into the database. This information is referred to as a citation.
These databases are sold to university libraries so that students and instructors can search for articles that have been published on a particular topic. The universities pay a yearly subscription fee.
Note: A common misconception is that article databases and search engines are the same. Because databases are available online, students sometimes worry that the articles they find are really just regular web pages. However, when you search a database, you are searching within a pre-selected, controlled collection of information about quality articles. This is not the same as searching with search engines like Yahoo or Google that retrieve web pages that anyone could have created.
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.
Article databases are created by companies that employ people to read thousands of journals and magazines and select important articles. They are organised by subject or discipline, such as medical journals or art history journals.
For each article that is selected, an employee enters basic information about it such as: the author's name, the article title, the journal title, the volume, the page numbers, an abstract, and sometimes even the entire article) into the database. This information is referred to as a citation.
These databases are sold to university libraries so that students and instructors can search for articles that have been published on a particular topic. The universities pay a yearly subscription fee.
Note: A common misconception is that article databases and search engines are the same. Because databases are available online, students sometimes worry that the articles they find are really just regular web pages. However, when you search a database, you are searching within a pre-selected, controlled collection of information about quality articles. This is not the same as searching with search engines like Yahoo or Google that retrieve web pages that anyone could have created.
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