If you want to find articles on a particular subject published during a particular time, you'll want to find out if there is a relevant index. The library has many indexes which go back further than the electronic indexes. Your best bet is to talk to a librarian to identify appropriate indexes, but keep in mind that not all periodicals are indexed.

Periodicals Written for a Particular Audience

But what if you want to find the titles of periodicals geared towards a particular audience and published during a certain time period? Consulting a bibliography, guide or book on the history of periodicals will be helpful.

Try a subject search in the library catalog. Some possible terms to use:

African American periodicals

Employee's magazines

American periodicals- -bibliography

English periodicals

American periodicals- -history

House organs

British periodicals

Women's periodicals

Business- -periodicals

Youth's periodicals

Children's periodicals

Annotations: A Guide to the Independent Critical Press

Ref PN4784 .U53 A557 1999

Black Journals of the United States

Ref PN4882.5 .D36 1982

Children's Periodicals of the United States

Ref PN4878 .C48 1984

The Conservative Press in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century America

Ref PN4888 .C598 C66

The Conservative Press in Twentieth-Century America

Ref PN4888 .C598 C664 1999

From Radical Left to Extreme Right

Ref Z7165.U5 S473 1987

Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues

Ref PN4879 .W614 1996

Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines

Ref PN4879 .W6 1995

Use the subject section of the finding aid for the American Periodicals collections on microfilm. The finding aid, American Periodicals, 1741-1900: An Index to the Microfilm Collections, is kept in the Government Documents, Microfilm and Newspapers Department Z6951 .H65

The Index to American Periodicals of the 1700s and 1800s can be searched on CD-ROM in the Reference Department of Thomas Cooper Library.