Indexes
Indexes allow the researcher to find articles and other resources that are not generally available on the internet. Just about everything published after 1985 is available digitally if not for free, in paid databases. But prior to that (in most cases) hard copies are all that you can get. Once an article is located in an index, your friendly librarian can access the articles, either from back issues or from large libraries’ archives. And not just me, the librarians at your public library will find them too!
BHS library has the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature – the workhorse of indices – back to the early 1920s. Beverly Public Library offers an excellent online index, 19th Century Masterfile which combines Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906, Index to Legal Periodical Literature (Jones and Chipman)1786-1922, Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the Religion Index 1890-1899x and more.
BHS library has the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature – the workhorse of indices – back to the early 1920s. Beverly Public Library offers an excellent online index, 19th Century Masterfile which combines Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906, Index to Legal Periodical Literature (Jones and Chipman)1786-1922, Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the Religion Index 1890-1899x and more.
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