The Saudi National Periodicals Index

The Saudi National Periodicals Index is one of the publications of the King Fahd National Library, prepared by the Indexing and National Bibliography Department. It aims to catalog and document the intellectual output published in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to make it easily accessible to researchers.

Since its establishment, King Fahd National Library has issued twenty-two volumes of the Saudi National Periodicals Index, with the latest being Volume Twenty-Four, which covers periodicals published in 2018-2019. This volume continues from previous editions and serves as an important link in the analytical bibliographic control of Saudi periodical content. It is expected to provide a useful tool for readers, researchers, reference service staff in libraries, and students and practitioners of bibliographic control.

The index covers the contents of various periodicals published in the Kingdom, regardless of their issuing bodies, whether governmental, commercial, or private. It also includes the contents of general magazines, academic journals, and specialized yearbooks. The entries in the index are arranged alphabetically according to the title of the indexed material, as the title is the second bibliographic element listed after the main entry statement.

The index helps researchers quickly retrieve information published in Saudi periodicals. Tens of thousands of research articles can be searched and retrieved through the library's website. Periodicals are an important source of information that requires significant effort to follow up on by researchers, scholars, and others.

King Fahd National Library has been actively pursuing its goals of documenting and preserving Saudi intellectual output and providing information services that align with the comprehensive development occurring in the Kingdom. Given the difficulty researchers face in keeping up with the diverse and continuously published periodicals, and the varying publication schedules, there arose a need to issue this national index to catalog the intellectual output published in the Kingdom.

Tens of thousands of studies and articles published in Saudi periodicals can be searched and retrieved using the central database in the library or via the Internet. Automated search allows for the retrieval of required information using keywords found in titles, subject headings, or author names.