Article databases (also called periodical databases) include the citations of articles in magazines, journals and newspapers.

Some article databases contain abstracts or brief summaries of the articles. More and more contain the full text or entire content of whole articles as they originally appeared in the periodical.

Online article databases, purchased by the UWM Libraries are accessible from the library Web site. The library also owns print indexes, good for researching older materials. For example, the New York Times print index goes back to 1851!

When you want to find articles on your topic in magazines, journals or newspapers

• Academic Search Elite (a general article index)
• CINAHL (an index of articles in the healthcare field)
• ABI/Inform (a business article index)