Researching Periodicals
How to do research on magazines and newspapers.
Online Indexes to articles in historical magazines
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C19: The Nineteenth Century IndexAn index to nineteenth-century periodicals. Includes MGetIt links to full-text when available.
Finding Magazines in Print and on Microfilm
U-M Library has a rich collection of magazines both in print and on microfilm. Some titles include:
In addition, the Clements Library has a collection of women's magazines as part of their culinary history archive. Click here for a list.
To find a specific title, search the catalog by "journal/serial name."
To browse titles in Mirlyn, try the subject heading "periodicals" + a keyword for a topic that you're interested in. For example:
- united states--periodicals
- fashion--periodicals
- women--periodicals
- American literature--periodicals
- popular culture--periodicals
- rock music--periodicals
Historical Periodicals Available Online
Recent Magazines
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America's News Magazines [NewsBank]Full text of 3 popular U.S. news magazines: Newsweek (1991- ), Foreign Affairs (1994- ), and Slate (1996- ).
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General OneFileProvides indexing for 8,000+ scholarly & general interest journals & newspapers, with full text for 4,200+ of them.
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Nexis UniFull-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.
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ProQuest Research LibraryIndexes over 5,000 journals and magazines, academic and popular, with full text included for over 3,600.
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Readers Guide Full Text MegaIndexes 450+ popular periodicals published in the U.S. & Canada, with full text from 270 of them.
Last Updated: Aug 14, 2025 12:56 PM
Subjects: General Information Sources