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Periodical Microfiche Library

A full text periodical library with over 130 periodicals and cabinets or individual periodical titles are for sale at a tremendous discount from the cost at which you can buy them from microfiche retail sales companies. These microfiche periodicals came from the library of Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts which closed down in 1999 and sold at auction in 2002. Individual titles or the entire library are available.

 Periodicals Available

Below are the periodical titles we have and the dates of their runs, most of them over 10 years years but going as long as 43 years (i.e. Newsweek).  Most have indexes for the dates referenced and in a few cases ndexes are provided for dates beyond the periodical run. All the dates are inclusive, so if it says 1987 though  1999, the full year 1987 and 1999 are provided, as well as all the dates in between. The titles in bold are some of the more popular titles with long runs in the microfiche library.

If you are interested in specific titles email us and we will provide you a price and any additional information you may need. You can get a good idea of our prices from the list below with some sample retail prices from ProQuest's Serials in Microform Catalog and our price for the same item demonstrating the tremendous bargains available:

American Historical Review: Retail $148 per year, our price is $25 per year.

American Scientist: Retail $56.10 per year, our price is $10 per year.

Business Week: Retail $569 per year, our price is $100 per year.

Commentary: Retail $89 per year, our price is $15 per year.

Economist: Retail $665 per year, our price is $100 per year.

Foreign Affairs: Retail $75 per year, our price is $15 per year.

Harvard Business Review: Retail $103 per year, our price is $20 per year.

Industry Week: Retail $363 per year, our price is $50 per year.

Journal of Asian Studies: Retail $64 per year, our price is $10 per year.

Life: Retail $163 per year, our price is $25 per year.

Maclean's: Retail $407 per year, our price is $50 per year.

Nation: Retail $117 per year, our price is $20 per year.

New England Journal of Medicine: Retail $422 per year, our price is $75 per year.

New Yorker: Retail $442 per year, our price is $55 per year.

Newsweek: Retail $326 per year, our price is $50 per year (We have 43 years, 1957-1991!)

Psychology Today: Retail $91 per year, our price is $15 per year.

Science: Retail $355 per year, our price is $45 per year.

Time: Retail $346 per year, our price is $45 per year.

US News & World Report: Retail $342 per year, our price is $45 per year.

About Microfiche

Microfiche are 4"x6" scanned pictures of the multiple pages of a periodical. They can be read by viewing on microfiche readers. Readers are inexpensive and reliable (I picked mine up at an auction for $15). One of the best ways to get a reader is to do a search on eBay for "fiche" and the readers are often in the "computers and office equipment" category and I've seen many with a modest starting price of less than $25. This is a great way to do research in the comfort of your own home. Periodicals, genealogical data and detailed automobile and motorcycle information often can be purchased most economically and with the least consumption of valuable space by use of microfiche, which is why it is used by libraries.

Microfiche can also be taken to a library or a family history center to be read. Those genealogical centers and libraries often have microfiche reader printers so prints can be made if you want a paper copy.

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