The Perch: Magazines
News, Commentary, & Opinion
Browse this selection of magazines from our collection to read in-depth coverage of current events, and social, economic, and political issues of the day.
This page provides a link to the titles':
- InfoHawk+ catalog record (describing date coverage and location information)
- searchable Libraries' subscription access to its archive (if available)
- publicly available online site
- description from Wikipedia,
- allsides.com entry (if available) which provides information on a publication's bias
Most of these publications can be searched in InfoHawk+ or our online databases.
If you're looking for older print issues, many of these can be found on the upper floors of the Main Library. Check the InfoHawk+ link for details on date coverage and location information.
Search Databases for these titles and beyond
- Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new window Full-text database indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. (Main Library Reference Area holds vol. 1- July 1969- to present in the paper edition.)
- America's News Magazines This link opens in a new window Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from 26 familiar magazines.
- Ethnic Newswatch Complete This link opens in a new window Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new window Primarily a full text database with some abstracts that contains periodicals, academic journals, newsletters, magazines, regional publications, and government reports focused on gender and women's issues. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
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Magazines Gallery

American Prospect
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1996-Today)
Website
Wiki

American Scientist
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1994-Today)
Website
Wiki

Annals of Iowa
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online(1863-Today)
The Annals of Iowa is hosted by The University of Iowa Libraries.

Atlantic, The
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1988-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

Billboard
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1988-Today)
Website
Wiki
* oversize - located on News & Reviews stand

Congressional Digest
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1921-Today)
Supreme Court Debates Full Text Online (1998-Today)
Website
Wiki

Foreign Affairs
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1922-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

Foreign Policy
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1990-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias


Harper's Magazine
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1992-2007)
Website
Wiki

Interview
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (2002-2018)
Website
Wiki
* oversize - located on News & Reviews stand

Iowan, The
InfoHawk+

Mother Jones
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1990-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

Nation, The
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1865-Today)

National Geographic
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1995-3 Months Ago)
Website
Wiki

National Review
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1975-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

New Republic
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1955-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

New Statesman
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1988-Today)
Website
Wiki

New York Times Magazine
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1985-Today)
Website
Wiki

New Yorker, The
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1925-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

Popular Mechanics
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1996-Today)
Website
Wiki

Popular Science
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1984-Today)
Website
Wiki

Progressive
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1990-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

Rolling Stone
InfoHawk+
Full Text Archive (1967-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias
* oversize - located on News & Reviews stand

Smithsonian
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1970-Today)
Website
Wiki



Vanity Fair
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1992-Today)
Website
Wiki
Bias

Variety
InfoHawk+
Full Text Online (1999-Today)
Historical Archive Full Text Online (1905-2000)
Website
Wiki
* oversize - located on News & Reviews stand