Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library
Magazines
Subscriptions
Find articles from magazines and periodicals in EBSCO Host. This online subscription has magazine articles and newswires (full-text) and an index to more magazines and newspapers, fully searchable, with current issues and backfiles.
Magazines listed in the sidebar offer a sample of what EBSCO Host provides in terms of mainstream magazine publishing. Full-text of twenty-five magazines of the thirty-one magazines listed can be searched in EBSCO Host, and indexes can be searched for all thirty-one.
The variety of titles in EBSCO Host is excellent. Whether the need is for specialized journals for professionals or hobbyists or lighter reading, EBSCO Host is likely to have full-text to match the need. These magazines, for example, are included:
- Accounting Horizons
- Adhesives & Sealants Industry
- Consumer Reports
- Dairy Field
- Early American Literature
- Girls' Life
- Golf Digest
- International Journal of African Historical Studies
- Organic Gardening
Titles are either indexed or full-text in EBSCO Host.
To check to see whether a magazine is in EBSCO Host, search the title using advanced search, search type as publication title search (SO). Another way, from the opening search screen is to use the Publications drop-down menu to choose a database title's set of indexed titles.
The Library provides other ways to search large collections of magazines online. Selections of titles for special purposes have been broken out.
- Professional Development Collection - for educators and administrators.
- Searchasaurus - for elementary school students, with menus to choose topics (or search options). Lots of graphics from magazines or age-appropriate encyclopedias, including colorful country flags and pictures of animals.
The Library also has magazine subscriptions for paper copies of all magazines listed in the sidebar. The Library has many more magazines than this. More complete listings of magazines in the Library are in the library catalog. Search by magazine title, using periodical title as the search type (drop-down menu). Information about which library branches have which magazine is available in the catalog.
Current Issues
The Library displays the current issue of magazines in the magazine reading area. If the current issue is unavailable, consider checking EBSCO Host.
Back Issues of Subscriptions
Older issues may be found on shelves below the displayed issue. These may be checked out of the Library.
In some cases older issues are in storage. Please ask for assistance if you are looking for older issues. The Chavez Central Library has the deepest backfile of magazines. Issues may be requested at the first floor storage desk.
One of the strengths of EBSCO Host is that back issues can be searched and articles can be easily retrieved, for those magazines that are available as full text.
Magazines on the Web
Many magazine publishers offer online versions of their magazines. The American Journalism Review provides a portal to many of these online magazines [AJR Newslink].
Some magazines only exist in online versions. Neither of the two magazines below are available in EBSCO Host. They are only available online from the source.
Others exist as a combination of online and paper copy, but offer the full version online for free.