Research Guides: Magazines: Facsimile formats

Facsimile formats allow you to browse and read popular magazines as they were printed, page by page, with full images and advertisements, not just the text of articles available in many databases

Magazine Archive from EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost magazine archives provide cover to cover magazines in HTML and PDF including advertising not available from other sources. We have access to Architectural Digest, Forbes, The Nation, and Life.

Other sources

Air & Space offers the complete set of Air & Space Smithsonian magazine, from 1986 to 2 months ago.
National Geographic Virtual Library offers the complete set of National Geographic, from 1888 to 2 months ago.
Smithsonian offers the complete set of Smithsonian, from 1970 to 2 months ago.

Sources of full-page magazine PDFs

These sources don't offer page by page browsing, but do have full-page PDFs from popular magazines (often one PDF for each article).

Atlantic Monthly. 1993-present.
Architectural Digest. 1922-2011.
Bloomberg Businessweek. 1996-present.
Condé Nast's traveler. 2012-present.
Cosmopolitan 1996-present.
Country Living 1996-present.
Ebony. 1945-present.
Entertainment Weekly 1993-present.
Entrepreneur. 2003-present.
Esquire. 1996-present.
Field & Stream. 2001-present.
Food & Wine. 2015-present.
Forbes. 1917-present.
Fortune. 1992-present.
Instyle. 1996-present.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance. 2000-present.
Life Magazine. 1936-2000.
Marie Claire. 2001-present.
Men's Health 1990-present.
Money 1990-present.
National Review. 1955-present.
Newsweek Global 2013-present.
Outdoor Life. 2001-present.
People Magazine 1994-present.
Psychology Today. 1992-present.
Real Simple 2000-present.
Redbook 1996-present.
Seventeen 2007-present.
Sports Illustrated 1992-present.
Scientific American. 1845-present.
Time Magazine 1923-present.
Travel & Leisure. 2015-present.
Vanity Fair. 2005-present.
Vegetarian Times. 1996-present.
Women's Health 2007-present.
Yoga Journal. 1990-present.