If you didn’t know, now you do.
Every Humber Polytechnic and University of Guelph-Humber student can sign up for PressReader and have access to some of the worlds most popular magazines and newspapers in various languages and editions, all for free. They’re all available to satiate your craving to read but also to help you learn more about your chosen career path.
Just visit the PressReader website or download the app, sign up under “Library or Group” and use your student credentials. Check out this step-by-step guide.
‘Choose your own adventure’ in this article. Pick your program or find another rabbit hole that looks interesting to you. There’s even a good hobby and pop culture section to give your life the spice of variety students need. Here’s a table of contents to help you navigate:
Marketing and communications
Toronto Life: This magazine is a great example of how a media outlet communicates info to consumers right in the heart of your own city.
Hello Canada: Publicity, branding and public relations is at the forefront of your degree. Through this magazine, you’ll learn the dos and don’ts firsthand.
Culinary
Canadian Living: A little bit of everything. In this magazine, you’ll be able to grasp how your cooking affects all aspects of life.
Bon Appetit: What makes a great chef? What mentality do they have? What’s their story? This magazine has the answers and the recipes.
Dish: Learn to cook for different occasions, different time constraints and different people in this more home-style magazine.
Fashion & architecture
Vanity Fair: A magazine that stretches to multiple countries with different book iterations. See different fashion from around the world.
ELLE: See the trend with worldwide fashion? ELLE has luxurious photos for the visual fashionistas out there.
Business
The New Yorker: A magazine that approaches business from an entertainment point of view.
Foreign Affairs: The magazine may be from an American perspective, but it has the comings and goings of world-wide business.
Maclean’s: Get all your current issues affecting business in this Canadian magazine.
Business Traveler: Hope to be a traveling businessperson? This is the one-stop-shop for in-depth analysis and tips for doing business abroad.
Tech
Tech Advisor: For anyone in the Humber’s Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation, this is a must have. Get up to date news on what the tech engineers are producing.
Techlife: From gaming to A.I., this magazine homes in and deep dives on its tech products.
Macworld: Only interested in consumer products? Macworld showcases laptops, GPT’s and the latest peripherals.
Health
Healthy Eating: For the health student focused on how to eat better.
Psychologies: Various stories from psychologists around the world, this magazine shares how to improve mentally for the practicing mental health student.
ADHD magazine: According to the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention, diagnoses for ADHD have been increasing for children. If you would like to learn more about the topic for your career or if you have ADHD yourself, this is your magazine.
Writing
Writing Magazine: Having trouble getting your writing to flourish? This magazine was made to help.
Poets and Writers: For students that enjoy hearing of the writers around them and their works. Learn by example.
Writer’s Digest: This magazine is more technical than creative. For students who are always looking to improve their core writing habits.
Education
Creative Steps: For early childhood education learners, this magazine will help with different styles and provide ideas on assisting children.
This Week Junior: Yes, it’s a children’s magazine. But for any person that hopes to work with them, it’s helpful to know what’s going on in their world.
Hospitality & travel
National Geographic: This network of magazines has everything for a student who hopes to travel in their career needs.
New York Magazine: How would people like to be treated? What’s happening in people’s everyday lives? For a student in the hospitality industry, this magazine offers key insights.
Hobby & art
Leisure Painter: Whether you’re an art student or looking to channel your inner Bob Ross, Leisure Painter has something to offer.
The Knitter: The most self-explanatory magazine ever.
Simply Crochet: I stand corrected.
Love Embroidery: Wow…these magazines are accurately named.
Model Airplane News: Care to try an eccentric hobby?
Pop culture
Empire: One of the most entertaining reads for all things movies and TV.
PC Gamer: If you’re looking for a strictly gaming magazine, though, this is the crème de la crème.
Rolling Stone: Are you a music fanatic? The legendary Rolling Stone magazine is here to entertain and give you some new tracks to check out.
This is one of the many tools available to students for no extra cost. Utilize it to your benefit with studying, assignments or just to keep that passion alive by reading about your program in a low-stakes, fun environment. Get to reading!
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