Some of the Periodicals Available Online
We've compiled lists of magazines and newspapers that, according to ProQuest/Bell & Howell, Northern Light and EBSCO, three major database providers, supply the full text of their publications to those companies. The lists aren't comprehensive, but are intended to include periodicals that are likely to have included freelance material and that include in their electronic archive works from before 1996. (More recent contracts often include a grant of electronic rights.)
Some of the listings include: American Artist; Arizona Republic; Boston Globe; Car & Driver; Ebony; Forbes; Life; Los Angeles Times; Omni; Outdoor Life; Popular Science; San Diego Union-Tribune; Seattle Times; Texas Monthly; and The Wall Street Journal.
Our lists include more than 400 periodicals, large and small, famous and not so famous, including many local and regional newspapers.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Our listing is not meant to imply that articles on databases from these publications appear without the authority of of rightsholding writers. Some or many of these publications may have acquired electronic rights to all of the articles that appear in the databases. Also, although we've tried to be careful, some of the listings may be inaccurate. The best way to find out whether an article appears in a database is to search the database itself.
Selected list of periodicals available in full text from ProQuest/Bell & Howell.
Selected list of periodicals available in full text from EBSCO.
Selected list of periodicals available in full text from Northern Light.
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