Mostly, it's for librarians to grab content they can use for classes and guides.
Because from time to time faculty ask students to look for journals in print format, here are some lists of current print periodicals by subject. I have only included departments for which we have a number of print titles (and print + online, though I haven't indicated online because ... well, presumably students have been told to look at print). If your department isn't here, that's because we only have one or two titles in print.
I have also tried to sort out the primary source magazines in a variety of ways so that it will be easier for students to find. They seem to need these by decade more than by subject area, so that's how I'm organizing them.
Aperture
Architectural Record (current issue on main floor)
Art Bulletin
Art in America (current issue on main floor)
Art Journal
Artforum International
Ceramics Monthly
Enter (formerly Architecture MN)
Women's Art Journal
These print-format journals all publish primary research and review articles in the field of biology.
American Midland Naturalist
Genes and Development (most current year; earlier volumes in PMC)
Nature
Science
Wilson Journal of Ornithology
We also subscribe in print to the following biology-related journals and magazines
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
Environmental Ethics
Horticulture (current issue on main floor)
Loon
Minnesota Birding
Minnesota Conservation Volunteer
National Wildlife
New Scientist (current issue on main floor)
Not currently subscribing to any print journals.
Exceptional Children
Journal of American Indian Education
Journal of Classroom Interaction
Journal of Negro Education
Language Arts
Mathematics Teacher
Multicultural Education
Principal
Principal Leadership
School Arts
Science and Children
Science Teacher
Social Education
Teaching Exceptional Children
YC Young Children
Peer-reviewed and scholarly journals
AEA Papers and Proceedings
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
American Economic Review
American Economic Review: Insights
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Magazines with a business focus
Economist (currrent issue on main floor)
Forbes (current issue on main floor)
Fortune
American Poetry Review
English Journal
Gettysburg Review
Great River Review
Hemingway Review
Hudson Review
Kenyon Review
Massachusetts Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
New England Review
Paris Review
Poetry (current issue on main floor)
Poets & Writers
Sewanee Review
Southern Review
Southwest Review
Western Humanities Review
Willa Cather Newsletter and Review
Yellow Medicine Review
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Geohumanities
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Orion
Planning
Professional Geographer
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Coach and Athletic Director
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness
Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise
Runner's World (current issue on main floor)
In addition to journals for historians, the library has many popular magazines from the 19th and 20th centuries that can be used as primary sources. An index to them, the Reader's Guide to Periodicals, is available in the reference collection. Feel free to ask a librarian for help.
Current scholarly journals about history
Current History
History Today (current issue shelved on main floor)
Journal of American History
Journal of Southern History
Journal of the West
Minnesota History
Western Historical Quarterly
L'Express (current issue shelved on main floor)
French Review
Insula
Lire Magazine Litteraire
Yale French Studies
ACM Computing Surveys
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Consortium
Fibonacci Quarterly
Mathematics Teacher
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Pi Mu Epsilon Journal [PME Journal]
UMAP Journal
American Organist
American String Teacher
Bach
Choral Journal
Clavier Companion/Piano Magazine
Diapason
Ethnomusicology
Hymn
Instrumentalist
Jazz Times
Journal of Singing
Journal of the Jussi Bjorling Society
Opera News
Strings
Holistic Nursing Practice
JAMA
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
Nursing
Nursing Management
Current History
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Psychology
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Memory and Language
Christian Century (Current issue shelved on main floor)
Christianity Today
Cithara
Commonweal (Current issue shelved on main floor)
Intersections
Japanese Religions
LWF Documentation
Sojourners
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Food, Culture, & Society
Scandinavian Review
Scandinavian Studies
Swedish American Historical Quarterly
Swedish American Genealogist
Astronomy (current issue shelved on main floor)
Nature
New Scientist
Science
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