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Google's collection of scanned magazines has a few more titles than it did when last I checked.

Some examples of its holdings:

Flying (Earlier title: Popular Aviation until Aug 1940)
Nov 1927 to Dec 2008

Spy, a satirical magazine
October 1986 to March 1998

Mother Jones
May 1976 to Jan-Feb 2000

New Scientist
26 March 1964 to 23-30 Dec 1989

The Crisis from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
April 1911 to Winter 2011

Billboard
24 Nov 1979 to 12 Dec 2009

ABA Journal from the American Bar Association
Jan 1950 to Dec 2003

Speaking of Google, while they have added some magazines to Google Books, they don't seem to offer a list of which magazines are in there.

Users are left to reverse-engineer the list themselves. Eric Rumsey undertook this task. I made my own search before I found his blog entry, but he found more than I did. I can't compete with a crack librarian.

Quoting Eric's "serial holdings" list:

* The Alcade (Univ Texas alumni magazine), Jan 1960 - Sep-Oct 2008
* Atlanta magazine, Jan 2003 - Aug 2008
* American cowboy, May 1994- Aug 2008
* Backpacker, Spring 1973 - Dec 2004
* Baseball digest, 1940 - Oct 2007
* Best life, Dec 2005 - Nov 2008
* Better nutrition, Jan 1999 - Dec 2004
* Bicycling, Jan 2006 - Dec 2008
* Black Belt, 1962 - 2004
* Black World/Negro Digest, Nov 1961 - Apr 1976
* Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dec 1945 - Nov 1998
* Cell phone handbook, Summer 2007 (issue of Mac Life?)
* CIO, 1987 - 2001
* Collectors Guide, 1994 - 2008
* Cincinnati magazine, 1971 - 2000
* Cruise travel, Jan 1980 - Dec 2007
* Ebony, Mar 1962 - Nov 2008
* Ebony Jr, May 1973 - Oct 1985
* Indianapolis monthly, 1995 - 2008
* Jet, Nov 1951 - Oct 20, 2008
* Log home designs, Winter 1994 - Dec 2004
* Log home living, Dec 1989 - Feb 2004
* Mac Life, Summmer 2007 - Nov 2008
* Maximum PC, Oct 1998 - Dec 2008
* Mother Jones, 1976 - Jan 2000
* Men’s health, Jan 2006 - Oct 2008
* Mountain bike, Apr 2006 - Nov 2008
* New York magazine, Apr 29, 1968 - Dec 22, 1997
* Organic gardening, Dec 2005 - Nov 2008
* Popular mechanics, Jan 1905 - Dec 2005
* Popular science, May 1872 - Feb 2008
* Prevention, Jan 2006 - Dec 2008
* Runner’s world, Jan 2006 - Dec 2008
* Running times, Jan 2006 - Dec 2008
* Vegetarian times, March 1981 - Nov 2004
* Windows Vista, Autumn 2007 - Winter 2008
* Women’s health, Jan 2006 - Dec 2008

It seems likely that more magazines will be added in time. Will users have to repeat this exercise, or will Google eventually come through with a list of their holdings? And what would be their reason for being shy about their magazine list?

Gee whiz! From the Associated Press:

Google updates search index with old magazines

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE – 5 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has added a magazine rack to its Internet search engine. As part of its quest to corral more content published on paper, Google Inc. has made digital copies of more than 1 million articles from magazines that hit the newsstands decades ago.

For now, the old magazine articles can be found only through Google's search service for finding digital copies of books. But the Mountain View, Calif.-based company plans to eventually include magazine articles in its general search results.
[...]
The list of old magazines already available through Google include past issues of New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science and Ebony.
[...]
Besides books and magazine articles, Google also provides a digital gateway to the archives of several newspapers and millions of old photos from Life magazine.

Here's Google's own announcement.

Eponymously Yours, W. Skeffington Higgins

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