Use any one of the indexes below to locate the citations (title, author, name of the periodical, date, volume, page numbers) and in some cases annotations of relevant magazine or journal articles, book reviews, plays, short stories and more. If you need help, Ask a Librarian!

Art Index

• Includes information compiled by specialists with expertise in all fields of art to provide an international perspective on many art subjects.  Indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as European periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews. Serves as a comprehensive record of reproductions of works of art that appear anywhere in any of the indexed publications.

Biography Index

Coverage: 1946 to present
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations Only
Format: Paper
Subjects: Autobiographies, Bibliographies, Biographies, Book Reviews, Critical Studies, Drama, Fiction Interviews, Journals, Juvenile Literature, Letters, Obituaries, Pictorial Works, Poetry

• Cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals and journals. Some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books.

Book Review Digest

Coverage: 1905 to present
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations and Review Excerpts
Format: Paper
Subjects: English-language fiction and non-fiction books excluding reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences

• Citations and review excerpts of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for adults and children. Covers periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication.

Essay and General Literature Index

Coverage: 1900 to present
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations
Format: Print
Subjects: Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Children's Literature, Classical Studies, Drama, Economics, Fiction, Film, Folklore, History, Linguistics, Music, Poetry, Political Science, Religion, Women's studies

• Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. More than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually. Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.

Humanities Index

Coverage: 1974 to present
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations and Reviews Excerpts
Format: Print
Subjects: Archaeology, Art, Classics, Film, Folklore, Food, Journalism, Linguistics, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion, Space, World History, World Literature.

• Indexes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. Excludes editorials, letters to the editor, news, ephemeral announcements, cartoons, and advertising. Contains in each record a bibliographic citation for an article, book review, or other item in a journal. Includes English and non-English records.

MLA International Bibliography

Coverage: 1945 to 2004
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations Only
Format: Print
Subjects: Belief Systems, Comparative linguistics, Dramatic Arts (film, radio, television, theater), Folk Art, Folk Literature, Folk Music, History and theory of linguistics, History of printing and publishing, Literary theory and criticism, Semantics, Stylistics, Syntax, Translation, Teaching of language, Teaching of literature Rhetoric and composition, Rituals

• Includes a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It provides citations from over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as monographs, working papers and conference proceedings. International coverage is represented by literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and while the majority of records are from English-language publications, at least sixty other languages are represented including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Play Index

Coverage: 1800 to 1997
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations
Format: Print
Subjects: Drama scripts, including puppet performances, radio and television plays, classic, historical, and contemporary plays

• A popular reference classic for over 50 years, each volume covers five years of published plays. This resource lists every kind of drama script, including puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. This is a thorough record of plays written or translated into English. This unique resource covers important classic and historical plays (e.g. the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere’s works, Shakespeare’s dramas)  reprinted in collections and anthologies, as well as the works of contemporary playwrights including new editions or translations.  Separate sections offer a cast analysis arranged by sex and number of performers needed, a list of collections indexed, and a directory of publishers and distributors. With this resource you can find citations to some 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present.
  
  Search Tips:
  - Author, title, subject, and dramatic style entries are offered in a single-alphabet, easy-to-use listing.
  - Author entries provides a descriptive annotation and indicates the number of acts and scenes, size of cast, number of sets, and any dancing or music required.
  - Symbols identify plays suitable for children and young people.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

Coverage: 1890 to present
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations Only
Format: Print
Subjects: Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biography, Business, Canada, Children, Computers, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, Television.

• Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

Short Story Index

Coverage: 1923 to 1971
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations and Annotations
Format: Print
Subjects: Short stories of all styles and genres

• A unique guide to short stories of all styles and genres — from classics to experimental fiction. Providing accurate indexing of new and previously published stories in hundreds of collections and periodicals, it stands alone as a comprehensive guide to contemporary short fiction — indexing stories by title, author and subject in a single-alphabet listing. Indexes some 4,300 short stories written in or translated into English from more than 200 collections and 50 periodicals each year.

Social Sciences Index

Coverage: 1974 to present
Data Type: Bibliographic with Citations
Format: Print
Subjects: Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies

• Provides records for English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Contains a bibliographic citation for each record. Includes articles, interviews, obituaries, biographies, and book reviews. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.