Popular Magazines From the Library: Online Full Text Magazines

Magazines and Trade Journals:

• Are written for a wide audience to be informative, enticing, easy to read, and relaxing (a way to escape from stress).
• Are able to be rich in graphics using lots of photos, illustrations, infographics, or charts
• Support "reading" which is a gateway skill to all academic (and a good deal of life) success
• Enhances job knowledge via trade journals which convey practitioner focused information in a easy to read manner.

Benefits of casual reading or popular magazines & trade journals relevant to your area of studies:

• Learn the reliable, and often long established, reputable sources of information for your field 
• Systematically expose yourself to the leading issues and challenges in your field, and thought leaders.
• Learn of the leading employers, industry/market leaders, regulators, think tanks, sources of continuing education
• See industry calendars, conference announcements, meetings, & exhibits (interviews take place at many conferences)
• Be exposed to the vocabulary and jargon of your field. This is advantageous for your resume and for job interviews.

• Use the "subject" tabs on the left to quickly navigate to magazines by topic.
• More than 90 online magazines/trade journals from BCC library databases have been connected with quick links.
• The full contents of one specific issue of a magazine can be easily read cover-to-cover.
• For magazines published as a PDF, all graphic content is included minus advertising.

If there is a popular magazine or trade journal that you really like, buy don't find here, email: jgyee@peralta.edu.

If your publication is in one of the databases that the Library buys, we'll see if we can expose through a link. Unfortunately, the library has no funds to secure an online magazine not already in a library database subscription.