Library Basics/Frequently Asked Questions: Find Articles

Periodicals are any source that is published on a regular basis. The period of publication may be daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually.

Popular magazines, scholarly journals, trade journals, newspapers, indexes, and abstracts are the common types of periodicals. Other names for these resources include serials, journals, bulletins, magazines, reviews, publications, monthlies, weeklies, and quarterlies.

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These items are not available for checkout. They are designated Library Use Only.

These items are located on the 3rd floor of the Levi Watkins Learning Center.

You may apply for a Montgomery Higher Education Consortium (MHEC) sticker at the circulation desk. Or, you may complete the necessary forms to obtain materials from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan.

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Options include limiting by date, format, publication, full-text, and field (author, title, subject, etc.).

The two formats are PDF and HTML. PDF, which stands for portable document format, is an exact replica of the original print version. It opens in Adobe Reader and includes all charts graphs, illustrations, etc. HTML, which stands for hypertext markup language, may or may not contain images, charts, and tables. It opens in your browser and does not appear like the original document.