We have “Consumer Reports” magazine available at the Pember for you to check out. But did you know that you can access it online at home when you need some buying guide info? I need to buy a new vacuum cleaner and I am able to look at the ratings online at home!
Follow the steps here to get to the information you need to make an informed choice when you need to buy something.
- Go to the Pember homepage
- In the left column click on Research: Magazines, Journals, Newspapers & Websites
- Near the top click on MAGAZINES, JOURNALS & NEWSPAPERS
- Select Academic OneFile provided by NOVEL, this brings you to InfoTrac NovelNY. There are currently 41,551,466 articles in a date range 1980-2011 updated as recently as February 19, 2011.
- Enter your library card number. There are several ways to search. To get to a specific title, browse by publication, type in the title you are looking for and choose your title. (I searched for “Consumer Reports”) There are ways to limit your search.
- In the left column here, you can search within the publication. (I entered “vacuum cleaner” and limited to full text articles. I got 41 hits; many of these are citations or abstracts but for what I want, March 2009 has an article: Vacuums: we found CR Best Buys for as little as $170. ) So for now, I am looking for either a Hoover WindTunnel Anniversary Edition U6485-900 or a Kenmore Progressive.
WARNING: newer articles won’t always be available through this resource.