Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature is a reference guide to recently published articles in periodical magazines and scholarly journals, organized by article subject. The Readers' Guide has been published regularly since 1901 by the H. W. Wilson Company, and is a staple of public and academic reference libraries throughout the United States; a retrospective index of general periodicals published from 1890 to 1982 is also available.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

Producer	H. W. Wilson (United States)
History	1901 to present
Access
Cost	Subscription
Coverage
Format coverage	trade & magazine articles
Temporal coverage	1890 to present
Print edition
ISSN	0034-0464
Links
Website	www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/readers-guide-periodical-literature
Title list(s)	www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/rgl-coverage.htm

Originally, The Readers' Guide was published on a biweekly basis, with later issues incorporating the previous content in larger copies until the index for the entire year was published.

Databases

There are two online database versions of Reader's Guide available from H. W. Wilson Company: Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature which covers 1983 to the present, and Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890–1982.

See also

• List of academic databases and search engines

External links

• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature at the HathiTrust Digital Library
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature H. W. Wilson in Print