How to Search for Old Magazine Articles
Magazines provide up-to-date news on a number of topics including celebrities, cooking, national events, and specific hobbies like fishing, science fiction and fitness. While most material is timely in nature, reading old magazines can provide information for research or for the curious mind. Searching through old magazines in a library could take hours, but the Internet is full of digital articles from many magazine archives. These articles provide the full text, and often the published pictures as well.
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Visit the Google books official Web site at books.google.com. The main page of the Web site has "Featured" magazine articles from different titles and publishers. Use the search bar on the top of the screen to search for a specific subject, or browse through their full article database that includes magazine titles like Weekly World News, Mac Life, Jet, Life and Baseball Digest.
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Find dozens of health and science magazine articles from Highwire Press. The Web site is hosted by Stanford University, but anyone can access the collection of articles available. Multiple journals feature articles about nearly any topic in health including diabetes, schizophrenia, and aging. Use the columns on the right side of the article title to find out how far the back issues go and how long it takes to add new articles.
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Search for business-related articles at Bnet.com. Click on the "Business Library" link to load their digital article database. Browse through the most popular articles sorted by categories like "Reference," "Arts" and "Sports," or click on their publication list to search for more articles. Publications on the Web site include Wrestling Digest, Golf Digest, Woman's Health Journal, and Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft.
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Use a local library's database resources for old magazine articles. Several libraries keep old magazine archives with the actual magazine issues or digital scans. Libraries also have access to online magazine and journal databses like Ebsco.
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Visit official magazine Web sites to search for their own articles. For example, Newsweek, Times, Life, WWE Magazine, Sports Illustrated and several others host articles online that users can search for. Archives usually go back pretty far for free, but some may need a subscription or a per-article payment.
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