Collection Spotlight: Current Periodicals in Full Text and Image View
by Patrick Williams, Humanities Librarian, Lead Librarian for Digital and Open Scholarship
The Libraries’ electronic collections are well known on campus for providing timely access to current academic research and news sources via our vast periodical database subscriptions. But did you know that you can also view popular magazines in a variety of languages, subjects and genres, with full image and text access, via some of our specialized resources?
PressReader
PressReader is a rolling archive (covering the most recent issues) of newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries and in more than 50 languages, and users can browse by subject, region, language or title. Each issue is provided in full color/full text page-turnable view, with paratextual content like advertisements, photos and front and back matter available and searchable in context. Notable titles include: New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Smithsonian, The New York Review of Books, PC Gamer, Foreign Affairs, Good Housekeeping UK, Variety, USA Today and much, much more.
Exact Editions
Exact Editions provides access to a curated set of smaller-market and niche and arts-related publications in a similar manner to PressDisplay but also includes deeper archival content beyond most recent issues. Titles include Gramaphone, Music Week, Ceramic Review, Songlines and The Strad.
Popular current titles in ProQuest
The Libraries’ subscriptions on the ProQuest Platform also include current, full-image/full-text popular titles to explore. It is important to note that not only do these full-text searchable access to articles, but advertisement and other material is also preserved in context and indexed for easy locating. If you say, you wanted to find all the advertisements by a particular brand over a particular time period, for example, you can find every instance and compare them visually.
- Rolling Stone (including image access back to the first 1967 issues; latest issue also available in PressReader)
- Vogue (including image access back to 1892’s first volume and issues)
To locate more titles of interest, use the Journals search tool on the Libraries’ homepage and you will find options for viewing both current and archival access to hundreds of magazines.
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