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The Atlantic is Now Available to Penn Readers!

With our Atlantic website subscription, students, faculty, and staff can enjoy everything theatlantic.com has to offer, from cultural commentary to the Caleb’s Inferno crossword.

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Online full-text access to The Atlantic Monthly has been a perennial Penn Libraries request from our readers. The magazine has a long, distinguished history as a cultural reporter and opinion-maker since its start in 1857 as a showpiece for Boston literati. Faculty in the Political Science department and other Penn academic programs frequently include The Atlantic articles in their course reserve lists, and diligent students often report frustration over the website's metered paywall access. Additionally, title changes over the years have made The Atlantic Monthly one of the more difficult items to find in the Penn Libraries catalog.

No longer! Our Atlantic website subscription provides web-only content and print-magazine content. Faculty can now easily share urls to specific articles with students, and all students, faculty, and staff can enjoy everything theatlantic.com has to offer, from cultural commentary to the Caleb’s Inferno crossword. Currently, our subscription does not include The Atlantic Monthly's mobile app.

Additionally, PDF versions of whole monthly issues (advertisements included) are available for download from the latest issue back to the first issue from November 1857. While some of this content is currently available through Nexis Uni and Factiva, our new Atlantic website subscription provides images and publisher's formatting. That said, readers interested in discovering and viewing specific articles in older issues of The Atlantic may still find it easier to use our searchable full text subscription to The Atlantic Magazine Archive, covering 1857 through 2014.

How To Access

Accessing The Atlantic online is easy!  

  1. Visit the Sign In page from anywhere on theatlantic.com.
  2. Click on "Sign in through your institution." Do not create a personal account or sign in using the Facebook or Google options.
  3. If prompted, type University of Pennsylvania where it asks you to enter your institution name and click “Continue.”
  4. Enter your PennKey when prompted.
  5. Enjoy The Atlantic! 

Author

Lauris Olson

Librarian & Coordinator, Social Sciences Collections

Date

July 29, 2024

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