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• Children's periodicals, American
• Women's periodicals, American

• Time (US news magazine, 1923-) (partial serial archives)
• Scribner's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Lippincott's Magazine (full serial archives)
• Scribner's Monthly (full serial archives)
• Writing for the Quality Market: A Scientific Analysis of Eight Quality Magazines Showing Requirements, Policy and Slanting (New York: Publications Division, Literary America, c1935) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• Representative Magazines of the Civil War and Reconstruction Period (Masters thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1922), by Lillian Charlotte Niemann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines, 1741-1810 (Philadelphia: Americana Germanica Press, 1905; republished 1966), by Edward Ziegler Davis (Gutenberg text and page images)
• A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada, ed. by Henry O. Severance, contrib. by Charles Harper Walsh (full serial archives)
• The American Labor Press: An Annotated Directory (Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, ca. 1940), by University of Wisconsin, contrib. by John R. Commons and David D. Levine (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Popular Magazines (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1916), by Ethel Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Bibliography for the Study of Magazines (revised edition; Urbana: College of Communications, University of Illinois, 1979), by John H. Schacht (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Trans-Mississippi West: A Guide to its Periodical Literature (1811-1938) (Indiana University Social Science Series #3; Bloomington: Indiana University, c1942), by Oscar Osburn Winther (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Audiences of 5 Magazines: Size, Characteristics, Possessions, Cost Analysis: Newsweek, Time, U. S. News and World Report, Life, The Saturday Evening Post (New York, Newsweek, c1962), by Audits & Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)

• N.W. Ayer and Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory (partial serial archives)

• Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals to 1865 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1944), by Bertram Holland Flanders (PDF at Georgia)

• Magazines in the Twentieth Century (first edition; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956), by Theodore Peterson (PDF at modjourn.org)
• French Literature in American Magazines Prior to 1830 (University of Wisconsin doctoral thesis, 1909), by Charles Dean Cool (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Magazine in America (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Algernon de Vivier Tassin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Translations in American Magazines From 1880 to 1890 (University of Wisconsin thesis, 1913), by Lois Detweiler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• German Literature in American Magazines, 1846 to 1880 (University of Wisconsin doctoral thesis, 1908), by Martin Henry Haertel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• German Literature in American Magazines Prior to 1846 (University of Wisconsin doctoral thesis, 1907), by Scott Holland Goodnight
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Magazines of a Market-Metropolis: Being a History of the Literary Periodicals and Literary Interests of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906), by Herbert Easton Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Philadelphia Magazines and Their Contributors, 1741-1850 (Philadelphia: R. M. Lindsay, 1892), by Albert H. Smyth (Gutenberg text)

• Magazine Reader Count for County, State, and Nation (New York: The Bureau, 1949), by Magazine Advertising Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magazine Rate and Circulation Study (c1948), by Association of National Advertisers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Audiences of 5 Magazines: Size, Characteristics, Possessions, Cost Analysis: Newsweek, Time, U. S. News and World Report, Life, The Saturday Evening Post (New York, Newsweek, c1962), by Audits & Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Boy (partial serial archives)
• Child Life (partial serial archives)

• The Puritan (1897-1901) (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Check-List of American and English Periodicals (Boston: Boston Book Co, 1908), by Frederick W. Faxon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Eclectic (full serial archives)
• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Magazine Circulation: An Outline of Methods and Meanings (New York: The McCall Co., c1936), by Phillips Wyman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writer's Market (partial serial archives)

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (revised 1891 edition and 5 supplementary volumes; reprinted 1958), by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher, Franklin Osborne Poole, and Mary Poole
  • A-J, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • K-Z, 1802-1881: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1st supplement, 1882-1887: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 2nd supplement, 1887-1892: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 3rd supplement, 1892-1896: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 4th supplement, 1897-1902: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 5th supplement, 1902-1907: multiple formats at archive.org
• Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)
• International Index to Periodicals (partial serial archives)
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (partial serial archives)
• Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (partial serial archives)

• Insights: The UKSG Journal (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)

• Magazine Reader Count for County, State, and Nation (New York: The Bureau, 1949), by Magazine Advertising Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magazine Rate and Circulation Study (c1948), by Association of National Advertisers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), ed. by John Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing (1995), ed. by Ann Okerson and James J. O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• For Fans by Fans: Early Science Fiction Fandom and the Fanzines (master's thesis; Pensacola, FL: University of West Florida, 2015), by Rachel Anne Johnson (at purl.fcla.edu)
• The National Fantasy Fan (selected issues 1941-; all issues 2003-) (partial serial archives)
• File 770 (selected issues, 1978-), by Mike Glyer (partial serial archives)
• Science Fiction Five-Yearly, ed. by Lee Hoffman (full serial archives)
• Deliverance (c1995), by D. West (multiple formats in the UK)
• Science Fantasy News (UK serial fanzine, 1948-1960), ed. by Vince Clarke (partial serial archives)
• Tightbeam (with selected issues of predecessor titles, and all issues 2012-) (partial serial archives)
• Energumen (science fiction fanzine, 1970-1981), ed. by Mike Glicksohn and Susan Wood (full serial archives)
• Alter Ego (partial serial archives)
• Cheap Truth (SF newsletter from the mid-1980s), ed. by Bruce Sterling
  • full serial archives
  • audio readings at talkgeektome.us
• Checkpoint (UK-based science fiction newsletter of the 1970s), ed. by Peter Roberts (full serial archives)
• The Skyrack Newsletter (with annotations), ed. by Rom Bennett (full serial archives)
• Weberwoman's Wrevenge, ed. by Jean Weber (full serial archives)
• Ansible (science fiction newsletter, 1979-present), ed. by David Langford (full serial archives)
• Gegenschein, by Eric Lindsay (partial serial archives)
• Mimosa, ed. by Nicki Lynch and Richard W. Lynch (partial serial archives)

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