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Q: Can I read Consumer Reports online? Full-text?

Written on: November 5th, 2009 by: in Q & A's

A: Yes!  All you need is a Delaware Library Card and PIN to read complete issues of Consumer Reports online.  It’s even searchable!

Click here and enter your library card number and PIN.  Select the date you want from the right to read that month’s issue.

Below are directions on how to search for other magazines and journals:

• Go to the Delaware Library Catalog

• Enter your library card number in the upper right where it says User ID

• Enter your PIN in the box below User ID

• Click Login for more features

• Select Online Magazines and Journals from the green bar

• Type in the title of the magazine or journal you are looking for and click search (in this case Consumer Reports)

• Consumer Reports comes up as the first hit.  Select MasterFILE Premier (the first tab under the title).  The date displayed shows that we have issues going back to 1991

Now, you are in the EBSCO database.  From here, you can read specific issues by clicking the dates to the right.  Or, you can select “search within this publication” and then when a new screen appears click search again and advanced search to search for articles and reviews within all issues of the magazine.

Although lots of our magazines and journals are full-text, not all of them are.

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