Magazines

This guide helps you locate magazines at Western Libraries and beyond.

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DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Many libraries and archives have digitized historical magazines and made them freely available online. The list below provides a few examples and is by no means exhaustive. Search the websites of national, university, and local libraries and archives related to your areas of research for more options.

General Collections

Google Magazines
List of magazines available in Google Books.
Independent Voices
Open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals from the latter half of the 20th century, drawn from special collections libraries.
The Magazine Rack
Collection of digitized magazines covering various subject areas from Internet Archive.

Cover Art and Advertisements

Ad*Access
Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
MagazineArt.org
Online archive of cover art (not articles) from magazine covers and advertisements covering the 1880s through the 1940s.
Advertising Archives
The largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind in Europe with a collection posters, postcards, magazines, and other ephemeral materials from the mid-19th century to the present.