Paper Periodical Indexes

The following is an alphabetical list of the paper indexes we have available at Geisler Library. Each title is linked to its catalog record. Click on the title to find out what years are covered by the index and where it is located in the library. 

* indicates a current subscription to the paper edition of the index.

Current issues of paper indexes are shelved on the Index Table located on your left as you walk into the library. Older issues of indexes are shelved in the Abstracts Area in the southwest corner on this same floor in the library. 

• Abstracts of English Studies -- 1962-1991

• *Art Index -- 1972 -

• Biography Index -- 1946 - 2006

• Biology Digest -- 1974 - 2007

• *Book Review Digest -- 1905 -

• *Book Review Index -- 1969 -

• Business Periodicals Index -- 1970-1996

• Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography -- 1955-2001

• Des Moines Register Index (only July 1975 - 1992  -- see Newsbank online for recent indexing)

• *Education Index -- 1950 -

• *Essay and General Literature Index -- 1900 -

• French Periodical Index -- 1973-1995

• *General Science Index -- 1978 -

• *Humanities Index -- 1974 -

• Index to Black Periodicals -- (various titles) -- 1950 - 2003

• Index of Economic Articles -- 1886-1993

• Index to Journals in Communication Studies Through 1990

• International Index to Periodicals 1907-1965 (continued by Social Sciences and Humanities Index)

• Music Index -- 1970-2003

• *New York Times Index  -- 1947-   (Also in Ebsco Newspaper Source for 1994- and in LexisNexis Academic 1980- full text and 1969-1980 abstracts)

• Nineteenth Century Readers’ Guide - 1890-1899

• PAIS -- 1968-1972 (continued by PAIS online)

• *Philosopher’s Index -- 1940 -

• Physical Education Index 1978-2001 (continued by Physical Education Index online)

• Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature  1815-1899

• *Play Index -- 1949-     Reference 808.82 PL1 i

• *Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature -- 1900 -

• Short Story Index -- 1950 - 2000 Reference 808.83 Sh6 s

• Social Sciences and Humanities Index -- 1965-1974  (separated into Social Sciences Index and Humanities Index)

• *Social Sciences Index -- 1974 -

• Sociological Abstracts -- 1977 - 1998

• Wall Street Journal/Barron’s Index -- 1980 - 2003   (See Ebsco Newspaper Source for 1995-  Also in LexisNexis Academic 1973 to present)

• Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals -- 1824 - 1900

• Wildlife Review -- 1978 - 1995

• Women Studies Abstracts -- 1987 - 2006

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