3). USE OF JOURNALS



                        Periodical indexes and abstracts are systemic guides that list citation to and sometimes give summaries of magazines and journal articles. Indexes and abstracts organize articles in journals, magazines and newspaper by subject and may be in print or computer based formats or both.
                         The library subscribes hundreds of the indexes and abstracts for finding journal and general interest magazine articles.
                         Print or write out full citation for articles which are permanent. A complete citation include the name of the journal, volume, issue number, date and page number.
                         Article also provides access to an increasing number of journals which are available electronically.

What are articles? Articles may be a single-page story in the newspaper, a five page report in a consumer magazine, or a 30-page study appearing in a medical journal. For college level research, it is important to understand The Difference Between a Popular Magazine Article and a Scholarly Journal Article. Why articles are used for the research?
                        Quality control: articles usually must be approved by an editor, or peer review process before publication. This helps ensure quality and accuracy generally making the articles more credible
                         Current news: current events are followed and analyzed by news magazines long before they are studied in books.
                         Current research: information on the latest product, trends, research and theories often appears first in the magazines and journals.


                        Particular information: articles are written on a vast array of topics in every field and for every interest so they are good place to look for hard-to-find information which is written by the experts.

Finding the articles of our interest
                        The library maintains the thousands of the periodical databases and also online access to thousands of articles.
                         Periodical databases provide current updation also, in many cases they provide full-texts and searching on the various access by keywords, title, author, journal title.
                Some databases are also available which cover many disciplines. For example HINARY database.

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