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Print Magazines

Search for old issues in the PCL.

PCL Stacks Guide & Floor Plan
Maps of each floor of the PCL, along with a guide to call numbers to aid you in finding books and publications in the PCL.

Online Digitized Magazines

Find digitized historic backfiles and out-of-print magazines, newspapers, and other publications.

Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Full backfiles of leading mainstream women's magazines, going back to the late 19th century.
Publications: Ladies' Home Journal, Better Homes & Gardens, Essence, Redbook, Seventeen and Women's Day.
An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
A database of magazines on all sorts of subjects, including general news/current events, business, consumer health, and science.
Publications: Time, Ebony, Oprah, People and many others.
NOTE: Dates of full text vary. Some will not go back far enough for this assignment.
Updated daily. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 2,780 periodicals and full text coverage for nearly 1,860 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.
Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
A collection of general-interest magazines from United States in the 20th Century.
Publications: Newsweek, Look, Life, the New Yorker, The Atlantic
NOTE: Only four UT Austin users are allowed to access this database at a time. When you are finished, please close your browser window so others can access it.
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Covers more than 375 titles.
View the list of journals covered.
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
The full backfile of the U.S. edition of Vogue, the leading fashion magazine. Goes back to 1892.
The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
The Vogue Archive also features specialist indexing of full-page images from photo features. This has been newly created by Condé Nast, with expert indexers using controlled lists to apply keywords to each separate image within a document. There are separate designated fields for Fashion Item (e.g. kimono, Breton jacket, scoop neckline), Person Pictured, Company/brand, Designer Name and Material (e.g. chiffon, wool).
New York Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window
An historical backfile of The New York Times going back to 1852. Does not provide access to current, daily issues (coverage ends in 2013).
Updated annually. Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1851. Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. In addition to news stories, includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.
More recent years are also available in other full text resources.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
A collection of ethnic, immigrant, and native community newspapers and magazines in the U.S., going back to 1985.
Updated monthly. Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America (some international coverage). Includes more than 400,000 full-text articles from 200 publications.
Independent Voices This link opens in a new window
An excellent collection of alternative, underground, radical, and feminist press publications. Dates for some titles go back to the 1950s.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.