Periodical Indexes - General and Subject Specific Name_______________________________ Use your final project topic and search through a current issue of Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and two subject specific print periodical indexes for recent articles. Answer the questions below and compare what you learn from the different types of indexes. Also include a Paper Trail journal entry describing your experience searching print indexes. Remember, you need 20 good and 10-20 bad sources for your project, so these articles can be found and annotated for inclusion in the Paper Trail
TOPIC_____________________________________________________________ Reader's Guide Was your topic listed exactly as above? Write the citation for an article you think may be useful for your Paper Trail project.
Does the URI library own the periodical and if so, is the volume and issue that your article is in available here? Write down the Call Number of the journal if it is available.
Subject specific periodical index #1 Index Used____________________________________________________ Was your topic listed exactly as above? Write the citation for an article you think may be useful for your Paper Trail project.
Does the URI library own the periodical and if so, is the volume and issue that your article is in available here? Write down the Call Number of the journal if it is available.
Subject specific periodical index #2 Index Used___________________________________________________ Was your topic listed exactly as above? Write the citation for an article you think may be useful for your Paper Trail project. Does the URI library own the periodical and if so, is the volume and issue that your article is in available here? Write down the Call Number of the journal if it is available.
What conclusions can you draw about the differences
between a general index and a subject specific index? What can you determine about the sources cited in general
indexes vs. subject indexes? Assignment Checklist
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