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Check Consumer Reports Before You Make that Next Big Buy

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Would you like to know what Consumer Reports has to say about a product before you buy it? Easy! Just pull out your Austin Public Library Card and log in to the Austin Public Library’s database pages. The full text of the magazine including photographs and charts is available online from the most current issue back to January, 1991.

In addition to Consumer Reports, hundreds of other magazines including Fortune, Art in America, Texas Monthly, Money, Real Simple, Highlights for Children, PC World, Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, and Psychology Today are available in full text through the MasterFILE Premier and our other databases. Many are available in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat) with images.

Use eJournal Finder to see if a magazine, newspaper, or journal is available in full text in one of our databases. You can search by title, title keyword, or ISSN. You can also browse by subject to see which titles are available in your area of interest.eJournal Finder only lists titles that are available in full text. Publications that are just indexed or have only selected full text are not listed. Most individual databases also have a publications title list that you can check, as well.

Consumer Reports and MasterFILE Premier are available to everyone at all Austin Public Library locations. APL cardholders can access the databases 24 hours a day on the Internet. To find out more call 512-974-7400.

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