HOW TO USE THIS INDEX IN WATCHTOWER ONLINE LIBRARY (WOL)

NAME

The full name is Watch Tower Publications Index, also called Publications Index or just Index. Its abbreviation is dx followed by the year or years it covers, such as dx30-85 or dx86-25.

How to Follow These Directions

Print these directions or open another tab or copy of WOL in your Internet browser and follow these directions there.

“Click” in these directions means to left-click with a mouse or tap on a touch screen.

DIRECTIONS

The Index has two sections: Subject Index and Scripture Index.

SUBJECT INDEX

Information is organized by main headings (also called topics).

Finding Information

The search field is at the top. If you see only a magnifying-glass icon, click it to see the search field. Type a word or phrase (e.g., Beliefs Clarified, Jehovah, Marriage) and press Enter or, on a mobile device, tap Go.

Main headings matching your search will appear at the top of the results. Scroll to find a main heading that has “Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-20yy” (yy means the current year) or “Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985” below it.

Click a main heading, and it will open.

First, look at any “See also” suggestions. Click one if you prefer it, and that main heading will open. To preview one, hover over it with the mouse pointer or tap it on a mobile device. The title will have a square image to its left. To open it, click the title. To close it, click the X at the top right.

Look through the subheadings. Some may be grouped under “centered headings,” as you see below.

Format of the Subject Index

JEHOVAH

(See also . . . God; . . . Yahweh)

(Note centered headings below: Name;

Qualities; Qualities by Name; Titles)

activities:

perfect (De 32:4): w04 9/15 27

. . .

Name

Adam and Eve knew: it-2 13

. . .

SCRIPTURE INDEX

Only verses that are explained are included in the scripture index.

Finding references: Click the Bible icon (which looks like an open Bible) at the top of the window, then the Bible book, then the chapter. Click any verse number that is shown in bold. A panel will open on the right, showing the citation, and below it, “Indexes.” After “Research Guide” references are the “Publications Index” references.

REFERENCES

References are in chronological order, the most recent appearing first.

After clicking a reference, you will see the relevant text lightly underlined within its surrounding material. (In older publications, the underlining covers whole printed pages.)

Some references link to multiple parts of the material. For instance, use the Bible icon to go to Revelation 21 and click verse 21. In the panel that opens on the right, under Revelation 21:21 › Indexes › Publications Index, click “re 307-308” and you will see all three of its parts. If you wish to see one of the parts in its surrounding material, click the title above that part.

Abbreviations (mnemonics) are used to identify publications, like “w” for The Watchtower. Find these in “Abbreviations of Publication Titles” by clicking the publications icon (overlapping squares) at the top, then Index › Publications Index › Introduction.

References are shown as the mnemonic followed by the page numbers. If there are no page numbers, a word like article, chapter, lesson, section, or story is used to clarify.

Examples:

it-1 450: Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, page 450.

hdu article 25: the article series “How Your Donations Are Used,” article 25.

Periodicals show the date of issue or issue number:

w25.02: The Watchtower for 2025, February issue.

w15 2/15: The Watchtower for 2015, February 15th issue.

wp25.1: The Watchtower (public edition) for 2025, issue No. 1.

g25.1: Awake! for 2025, issue No. 1.

g 2/12: Awake! for February 2012.

g75 10/8: Awake! for 1975, October 8th issue.

mwb25.03: Meeting Workbook for 2025, March-April issue.

km 2/15: Our Kingdom Ministry for February 2015.

yb17: Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses for 2017.

We trust that this Index will help you to “walk worthily of Jehovah in order to please him fully as you go on bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the accurate knowledge of God.”—Col. 1:10.