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FIN 2013: Personal Finance

Use this guide to help you find digital Consumer Reports articles.

Consumer Reports Magazine (In-Print)

Physical copies of the Consumer Reports magazine are available in the Gordon Library in the periodicals section. The current issue is available for in-library use only, and past issues can be checked out for three weeks.

Consumer Reports (Online)

Via the publication page for Consumer Reports, there are two ways to find articles:

  1. Use “All Issues” feature to browse all the articles within an issue.
    1. Click on the year.
    2. Click on the issue.
    3. On the Search Results page, view each article published in the selected issue.
  2. Use “Search within this publication” to search for articles that were published in Consumer Reports by topic.
    1. Click on “Search within this publication.”
    2. In the search bar:  after JN “Consumer Reports” add AND your search term.
      1. AND must be in all caps.
      2. your search term – insert the topic you need articles about here.
      3. See the example below. The database will search Consumer Reports for articles about dryers.
  3. Narrow your search by publication date through the “Limit your results” feature at the bottom of the search page.
    1. Under “Published date” add 2013 and 2016 to only see articles published during the last three years. 

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