American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) provides PDF images of over 1,500 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the early 20^th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.

APS Online provides historical sources for a wide spectrum of American life. The collection includes scholarly journals, political and social commentary, general interest magazines, women's and children's magazines, as well as literary publications.