News Sources: Popular Magazines

Print Magazines

Most current Columbia Libraries magazine subscriptions are digital. Small collections of current print magazines can be found in the Periodicals & Microforms Reading Room (PMRR) in Butler Library and the Journalism Library in Pulitzer Hall. Issues are typically kept on the shelves for a few months and are available for in-library use only.

For finding additional physical copies, including older print or microfilm copies of magazines, see the Finding News Sources section of the guide.

Popular Magazines

Digital access to current and historical issues of many popular magazines is listed below. See the Finding News Sources tab for information on locating titles not listed here.

When subscription access to a magazine’s website is available, it is listed under the "Direct Website Access (Library Site License)" column. Publications with direct website access will not have paywalls, but you must use the link provided and log in with your UNI to get the Columbia subscription access. In many cases, these sites will include a digital archive of the print issues.

Library databases often provide access only to the print edition and may not have online-only articles, or have separate access for the Print and Online versions. When Online access is available, it is noted in the chart below. In addition, for most publications, there are many library database access points—only a selection of particularly comprehensive or useful access points are listed here, but additional access can be found by searching for the title in CLIO.

Magazine Direct Access (Library Site License) Library Database - Current Access Library Database - Historical Access
Artforum   ProQuest Central: 06/2002 to present Artforum Archive: 06/1962 to 12/2020
The Atlantic The Atlantic Group Subscription Academic Search Complete: 01/1993 to present HathiTrust: 1857-1928
Barron's  

Print: ProQuest Central: 01/1988 to present

Online: Factiva: 04/2008 to present (Source: “Barron’s Online”)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Barron’s, 1921 to 2010

Bloomberg

Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg.com
 

Print: Business Source Complete: 12/1996-present

Online: Business Source Complete: 07/2001 to present and on the Bloomberg Terminals (use function BBG <GO> to open Bloomberg.com)
Bloomberg Businessweek Archive: 09/1929 to 12/2000
The Caravan Publisher website    
The Chronicle of Higher Education Publisher website ProQuest Central: 01/1988 to 1 month ago  
Columbia Journalism Review Publisher website

 

Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson): 01/1991 to 01/2012

Periodicals Archive Online Collection 2: 10/1961 to 03/1996

E&E News

Energywire, Climatewire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, and E&E News PM
Publisher website    
Ebony   EBSCOhost Ethnic Diversity Source: 01/1985 to 03/2019 (Through final print issue in Spring 2019)

Ebony Magazine Archive, 1945-2014

The Economist

Publisher website

ProQuest Central: 01/1992 to present

The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
Esquire  

Academic Search Complete: 01/1996 to present

Esquire Magazine Archive: 10/1933 to 03/2014

Essence  

Research Library: 01/1988 to present

Women's Magazine II: 05/1970 to 12/2005

Forbes  

Print: Business Source Complete: 01/1990 to present

Online: Factiva: 12/2013 to present (Source: “Forbes.com”)

Forbes Magazine Archive: 1917 to 2000

Foreign Affairs

Publisher website

HeinOnline Law Journal Library: 1922 to present

HeinOnline Law Journal Library: 1922 to present

Foreign Policy Publisher website Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson): 01/1994 to present

JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII: 12/1970 to 04/2020

Fortune  

Print: Business Source Complete: 01/1992 to present

Online: Business Source Complete: 10/2013 to present

Fortune Magazine Archive: 02/1930 to 12/2000
Harper's Publisher website ProQuest Central: 01/1988 to present

HarpWeek, 1857-1912

Harper's Bazaar  

Harper's Bazaar Archive: 11/1867 to present

Harper's Bazaar Archive: 11/1867 to present
 
Harvard Business Review  

Print: Business Source Complete: 10/1922 to present

Online: Business Source Complete: 03/2007 to present

Business Source Complete: 10/1922 to present
Jet  

Jet Magazine Archive: 11/1951 to 05/2014 (Through final print issue in Summer 2014)

Jet Magazine Archive: 11/1951 to 05/2014

London Review of Books Publisher website    
MIT Technology Review  

Print: Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson): 07/1990 to present

Online: Factiva: 12/2022 to present (Source: “MIT Technology Review.com”)

Gale General OneFile: 01/1984 to 01/1997

The Nation  

Print: Academic Search Complete: 01/1975 to present

Online: Nexis Uni: 02/2016 to present

HathiTrust: 1865-1928 (Select issues)

National Geographic  

National Geographic Virtual Library, 1888-present

National Geographic Virtual Library, 1888-present

The New Republic  

Print: New Republic Archive: 11/1914 to present

Online: Newsbank Access World News Web Edition Articles: 05/2010 to present

New Republic Archive: 11/1914 to present

New York   Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson): 01/2005 to present

Google Magazines: 04/1968 to 12/1997

New York Review of Books

Publisher website

Gale Academic OneFile: 01/2022 to present  
The New York Times Magazine

New York Times Academic Pass

ProQuest Central: 01/1997 to present

Included with the Sunday paper, see the U.S. Newspapers section
The New Yorker

Publisher website (Print issue archive only, 1925 to present)

Academic Search Complete: 01/2004 to present  
Newsweek  

Academic Search Complete: 01/1990 to present

Newsweek Archive: 02/1933 to 12/2012
People  

Academic Search Complete: 03/1974 to present

Academic Search Complete: 03/1974 to present

Project Syndicate Publisher website   Newsbank Access World News Research Collection: 01/1998 to 12/2018
Rolling Stone  

Print: The Rolling Stone Archive: 11/1967 to present

Online: Nexis Uni: 05/2019 to present

The Rolling Stone Archive: 11/1967 to present
Science

Publisher website

 

JSTOR Life Sciences: 07/1880 to 6 years ago

Scientific American

Publisher website

Print: Academic Search Complete: 01/2007 to present

Online: Factiva: 06/2022 to present (Source: “Scientific American”)

JSTOR Life Sciences: 08/1845 to 5 years ago

Sports Illustrated  

Academic Search Complete: 01/1984 to present

Sports Illustrated Magazine Archive: 08/1954 to 12/2000

STAT+

STAT+ (Sign up for an account with a Columbia email address)

   
Time  

Academic Search Complete: 03/1923 to present

Time Magazine Archive: 03/1923 to 12/2000

Vogue  

Vogue Archive: 12/1892 to present

Vogue Archive: 12/1892 to present

Wired  

ProQuest Central: 11/2008 to present