Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

Libraries throughout the United States have a variety of methods in order to provide access to journals, magazines, and newspapers for their patrons. Every library and community in which the library serves provides different types of periodicals. For example, colleges provide more peer-review journals than popular magazines for their students. Medical libraries provide scholarly medical journals for their students and healthcare professionals. Often, public libraries will provide their own blend of periodicals depending on the demand from members of their communities.

The following information will provide information on the journals, magazines, and newspapers that the members of the communities within the Arenac and Iosco Counties are able to access at the various libraries of the Iosco-Arenac District Library system.

Iosco-Arenac District Library Headquarters provides a grant to each library, within the IADL system, to purchase journals, magazines, and newspapers in print form. Many of the libraries have various rules on allowing you to check out the periodicals. For example, at the East Tawas Library, all magazines are able to be checked out EXCEPT the most recent edition. The most current magazines are NOT allowed to be checked out until the next month's issue arrives. Newspapers are not able to be checked out. The East Tawas Library does not retain the periodicals long. Maybe each title will have a collection of one to six months, depending on the magazine.

Each library may have different rules. PLEASE check with other libraries for their policies for journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Here is only a sample/partial list of magazines and newspapers that the East Tawas Library has available in print form at the library.

The East Tawas Library receives the Iosco News Herald newspaper.

PLEASE check with your local library to see what they carry. Each year, some titles may be added while other subscriptions cancelled. I suspect that, at least some, of the libraries within Arenac County carry the Arenac Independent newspaper.

OverDrive (Digital Collection)

OverDrive is the name of a digital collection of audiobooks, electronic books (ebooks), magazines, and more. Many libraries thoughout the United States subscribe to this service.

This is a FREE service to the patrons IF their library belongs/subscribes to the OverDrive service. Iosco-Arenac District Library DOES subscribe to OverDrive.

You can signup for access to A LOT of audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines. This database provides a variety of resources for a variety of people, young and old, female and male.

The signup link for OverDrive can be found on the Iosco-Arenac District Library website at https://www.ioscoarenaclibrary.org/.

Click on their OverDrive image when you are on the web page for IADL Headquarters.

There is A LOT to say about OverDrive. It is another one of many valuable services that is provided by the Iosco-Arenac District System of libraries. I will type a little more information here, but leave most of the information, including some instructions on signup and usage for OverDrive, on another web page devoted to OverDrive at: https://www.booksinformationandmore.com/overdrive.html

This web page is about journals, magazines, and newspapers, and for that reason, I will stick to that here with this information about periodicals within OverDrive. OverDrive states that the full-text of over 4,000 (FOUR THOUSAND) periodical titles are able be accessed. Here are only some of the categories and number of journals, or magazines, presented for that subject area.

WARNING: Within the past couple of years, OverDrive developed a new app called Libby. The company that produces OverDrive will be discontinuing the older, classic OverDrive interface and will be going with the newer Libby app. This change will take place in very early 2023. The tutorials presented within this website are based on the older OverDrive interface, but this is fine for now. At least, the instructions give you a very good look at what OverDrive can do for you. I suspect that the newer, improved, Libby app, will add more to what the older edition of Overdrive once was.

https://help.overdrive.com/en-us/9709.html

https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6103.htm

https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/index.htm?tocpath=Home%7C_____0

There are MANY more tutorials that are available for Libby.

Michigan eLibrary (MeL)

Probably, many people know about the Michigan eLibrary. However, IF you don't, then I will say that the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) is a TREMENDOUS RESOURCE for ALL KINDS of information. It provides a WIDE VARIETY of sources for a WIDE VARIETY of people in the state of Michigan. I encourage you to explore the MeL website at https://www.mel.org/welcome.

For this web page, though, I will explain about a database accessed through Mel called "Academic Search Complete." There is A LOT to say about "Academic Search Complete." I know that I say that too much, BUT there is A LOT to say about MANY of the resources available through libraries. Maybe later on, I will give more explanation about this source, as well as other sources that I list on my website. However, for now, I will give enough of an explanation to allow you to see the value of this source as another opportunity of FREE access to the FULL-TEXT of journals, magazines, and newspapers.

"Academic Search Complete" is a database created by a well-known company in the academic field called EBSCO. Other companies that provide similar products are ProQuest and InfoTrac. I am more familiar with using the EBSCO database for helping students finding credible sources of information from sources such as scholarly journals. Many college teachers required their students to write research papers using some scholarly journals/materials, and EBSCO was one source that provided the full-text of academic, scholarly articles on all kinds of topics. Having said all of that, I can see where about anyone looking for information might find the "Academic Search Complete" database useful. I admit that it is NOT a great source to find articles in publications like "People" magazine. However, depending on what you are interesting in, "Academic Search Complete" provides a lot of articles from many different journals, magazines, and newspapers. Yes, "Academic" is in the title of "Academic Search Complete" for a reason, BUT again, I must say that there is A LOT of topics covered by ALL the articles presented in this database from journals, magazines, and newspapers.

It may be best to access "Academic Search Complete," through the menu at the MeL web page located at: https://www.mel.org/az.php

Here are some short, quick tips that may help you get started within EBSCO's "Academic Search Complete." Yes, I know, there needs to be more instuctions on this database and maybe I will get to that, later.

The main menu gives you a long search screen filled with many options. Type the subject within the search box. When you are done programming your search options, click on the "Search" button. However, I am providing a couple more tips below this image. Do not click on the "Search" button until you have selected all the options that you want.

What I have found is that MOST people want the ENTIRE text of the article. Many, many, years ago, these databases provided only citations
and not much in the way of entire articles. Students had to interlibrary loan the articles if the library did not have the publication on
their shelves. Over the years, more companies, such as EBSCO, paid the publishers what was needed in order to include the "Full Text" of the article.

Before clicking the "Search" button, as seen above, you really may want to click within the "Full Text" box. A check mark will be
placed within the box. The computer will search all the articles and then present articles that have the full-text of the article.

IF you want to be very specific on the source of the information, then select one of your choices under "Publication Type."
If you want articles from newspapers, only, then click on "Newspaper."

A little further down the page on the left side is the option
"PDF Full Text." A PDF is a scanned image of each page of the
article. You get to see the actual page as it was scanned. It includes
images. Some people prefer this type of document, only. If that is what
you want, then click within the box under "PDF Full Text."

PubMed (Digital Medical Journal Articles)

"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM's legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC is part of the NLM collection, which also includes NLM's extensive print and licensed electronic journal holdings and supports contemporary biomedical and health care research and practice as well as future scholarship.

Available to the public online since 2000, PMC was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NLM."

As you can see by the introductory paragraph, this database is full of VERY SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES for PROFESSIONAL health and science personnel. There is no question that if you read some of these articles that you may question if the language is English. Still, I have been able to find some small parts of the information understandable for whatever topic that I am searching for. Again, I know that this database is NOT for everyone. It is for the serious healthcare worker and members of the science community. There are some articles that are in another language. However, some information of the peer-reviewed, scholarly journals may be helpful.

PubMed can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

More Resources for Periodicals to Come Later

Probably, the four sources listed above for journals, magazines, and newspapers is enough to keep you reading for awhile.

There are more resources that I can add and I will add more later.

Thank you,

Mark

collegecareers72@gmail.com