Magazines, Journals & Newspapers

Welcome to your virtual library!  BPL is everywhere you are with Magazines, Journals and Newspapers available 24/7 from any internet connection.  From young learners to high school/college students to professional development to general reference, these resources are certain to educate, inform and inspire. 

Some resources require login with your Bentonville Library card or online registration.  To access certain Traveler databases, you may be required to enter your Arkansas location.  For assistance, please contact the Reference Desk at 479-271-6815 or email library@bentonvillear.com.    

Bentonville Library is grateful for the Arkansas State Library Traveler database project for providing valuable online resources for all Arkansas residents, schools and public libraries.


Academic Search Elite - Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information.  Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals, nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.

Agriculture Collection - With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of information, from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

Business Economics and Theory Collection - With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find hundreds of full text journals to support their research.

Business Source Elite - This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.

Consumer Health Complete - Reliable, reputable information designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health and medical topics. Search and view medical information on various subjects, drug and herbal treatments, alternative medicine and more.

Criminal Justice Collection - Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to hundreds of full text journals.

Culinary Arts Collection - The Culinary Arts collection includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Diversity Studies Collection - 150 full text journals covering cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community beginning in 1980.

EBSCOhost Español - EBSCOhost's full range of magazine and journal products, en español. A powerful research tool for students, educators, general use, research and professionals in the medical, business, legal and information industries.

EBSCOhost Web - Link to entire list of EBSCO databases in the Traveler subscription: EBSCOhost’s full range of magazine and journal products. A powerful research tool for students, educators, general use, research and professionals in the medical, business, legal and information industries. EBSCOhost offers a free mobile app.

Educator's Reference Complete - 450+ full text academic journals and hundreds of full text reports and reference sources focusing on educational principles, child development and psychology and best practices in education.

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection - Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes magazines and academic journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

ERIC - ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full text documents dating back to 1966.

Expanded Academic ASAP - This database offers coverage of every academic concentration. Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images, Expanded Academic ASAP delivers answers for both the novice and the experienced researcher.

Facts on File - Login Required Offsite. Explore all three Facts on File resources: World News Digest, Issues and Controversies and Today’s Science. Includes curriculum tools for educators.

Fine Arts and Music Collection - With hundreds of full text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history and filmmaking.

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection - Farmers, landscape architects and biotechnologists will appreciate this collection of journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping and other areas of horticulture.

General One File - General interest database with access to NPR broadcasts, reference materials, Fodor travel guides and many full text articles.

General Reference Center Gold - Full text and image resources for students and researchers. This comprehensive reference database quickly delivers the answers to a wide variety of reference questions. Access Gale resources through the free mobile app, AccessMyLibrary Public Edition.

GLBT Issues Collection - 30+ largely full text journals, beginning in 1980, this collection aims to provide balanced coverage on various cultural issues associated with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Covers such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues and health aspects.

GreenFILE - GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.

Health Source - Consumer Edition - This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines.

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers generic and brand name drug patient education sheets.

HeritageQuest - Search censuses, genealogy and local history books, Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War records, Freedman's Bank Records and LexisNexis US Serial Set.

Home Improvement Collection (Gale) - Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements and many more.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection - With current and relevant content from industry journals, travel guides and magazines this collection provides well-rounded coverage of tourism, including history, current practices, plus cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism and more.

Information Science and Technology Collection - 100 leading industry journals covering information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures and more, beginning in 1980.

Insurance and Liability Collection - 20+ journals with a broad view of the insurance industry covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking and legal issues.

Issues & Controversies - Login Required Offsite. In-depth investigations of today’s top issues, this resource provides an Encyclopedia, Almanac and quick links to Research Topics. Plus, easy access to issues citing pros and cons. Includes curriculum tools for educators.

Kids Search - Grades 3-8: Includes an Encyclopedia, Dictionary and Image searches, geared for young researchers. Major school subjects: animals, art & music, geography, health, in the news, language arts, math, science, social studies and sports. Also includes teacher resources.

Legal Collection - This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

MAS Ultra - School Edition - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps and flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles for key magazines.

MasterFILE Premier - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text periodicals with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps and flags.

MEDLINE - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing.

Middle Search Plus - Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains primary source documents and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

Military and Intelligence Database - 500+ titles and 7 million+ articles with links to related sources outside of the current article, includes reference books, magazine and newswire articles.

Newspaper Source - Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 US and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional US newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection - Covers all aspects of the Nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. This collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

OCLC: First Search - FirstSearch combines three compreshensive resouces: ArticleFirst is an index of journals' content pages; ECO (Electronic CollectionOnline) is a collection of scholarly journals; and WorldCat is a catalog of materials available worldwide. Additional OCLC Databases include: ClasePeriodica, eBooks, ERIC, GPO, Medline, OAIster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, WorldAlmanac and WorldCatDissertations.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection - This predominantly full text collection of 60+ titles covers physical therapy and sports medicine, beginning in 1980.

Pop Culture Collection - 100 subject-appropriate periodicals, which cover social science, history, art, liberal arts and current events. This database is predominantly full text.

Popular Magazines - 1000 of the most searched magazines across InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons. This database is 100% full text.

Power Search - Central location to search all or individual Gale databases.

Primary Search - Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Professional Development Collection - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Psychology Collection - This collection provides 200 full text periodicals that provide a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and mental growth and development.

Regional Business News - This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Religion and Philosophy Collection - A collection of 250 periodicals, beginning in 1980, for research on different religions and philosophies and how they impact our daily lives.

Searchasaurus - Grades K-3: Includes an Encyclopedia, Dictionary and Image searches, geared for young researchers. Major school subjects: animals, art & music, health, history, people & places, science & math, sports and stories. Also includes teacher resources.

Small Business Collection (Gale: State Library) - Comprised of 280+ subject-appropriate full text periodicals, provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories for business school students and entrepreneurs.

Small Business Resource Center (Gale: Bentonville Library) - Login Required Offsite. Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Student Research Center - Grades 6-12: Includes primary documents, articles and other reference tools for various school subjects: arts & media, English & language arts, business, careers, current issues, health, history, math, science, social studies, sports and technology. Also includes teacher resources.

Teacher Reference Center - Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Today’s Science - Login Required Offsite. Science news for today’s students includes a Science Encyclopedia, Glossary and quick links to Images and Research Topics. Includes curriculum tools for educators.

TOPICsearch - TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets and government information.

US History Collection - Coverage from 40+ journals of the current thinking and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

Vocational & Career Collection (Ebsco) - Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Vocations and Careers Collection (Gale) - 300+ largely full text journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

War and Terrorism Collection - For researchers and students of history, social science, and current events, focusing on conflicts: their causes, their impact, and how they are perceived on a global scale using 100 full text periodicals, beginning in 1980.

World History Collection (Ebsco) - World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

World History Collection (Gale) - 40 predominantly full text journals provides balanced coverage of events in World History for both the novice historian and the advanced academic researcher.

World News Digest - Login Required Offsite. A comprehensive resource for US and World news dating back to 1940, this resource provides an Encyclopedia, Almanac and quick links to Research Topics. Search headlines by decade, country or subject. Includes curriculum tools for educators.

WorldCat (OCLC) - An international catalog of 212 million+ records for books and other materials in libraries. The bibliographic records are cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide, with over 400 languages represented.

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