How to find out how many issues of a magazine Google has in Google Book Search

Google has announced that some set of magazines - though I haven't seen a complete list - is now available in full text on Google Book Search. 

How complete is this periodical collection? 

We'll start with the way to figure out, if you have found one issue of a magazine, how to find all of the rest of them.  This uses the "advanced search" with a key of the ISSN, the serial number assigned for magazines.    The example is "Bicycling" magazine - the search for
       http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=issn:0006-2073&as_pt=MAGAZINES
yields 168 hits, or 168 issues ?  But when you probe a bit further and look at it in "cover view", with
       http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=issn:0006-2073&rview=1&as_pt=MAGAZINES
you'll get only 33 issues.

I haven't seen a complete list of what's there - it has Popular Mechanics, but not Scientific American.  It's a fun collection but no where near comprehensive.

Comments

[Megan]

Here's the list of titles I tracked down yesterday, until Google stopped me from refreshing my page again and again, thinking I was a virus or spambot. There may be more.

The Alcalde
American Cowboy
Atlanta Magazine
Backpacker
Baseball Digest
Best Life
Better Nutrition
Black Belt
Black World/Negro Digest
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Cincinnati Magazine
CIO
Collectors Guide
Cruise Travel
Dwell
Ebony
Indianapolis Monthly
Jet
Liberty
Log Home Living
Mac Life
Maximum PC
Men's Health
Mother Jones
Mountain Bike
New York
New York Magazine
Popular Mechanics
Popular Science
Prevention
Runner's World
Running Times
Vegetarian Times

[Megan]

Also, if you get to an article or an issue of a magazine, simply click on "About this Magazine" to get to the list of all the issues available. Slick!

[Edward Vielmetti]

Here's another two sites with lists:

http://www.spellboundblog.com/2008/12/10/google-tackles-magazine-archives/

* American Cowboy: May 1994 through August 2008
* Atlanta: January 2003 through August 2008 - and mis-titled ‘Atlants’
* Baseball Digest: July 1945 through October 2007
* Better Nutrition: January 1999 through December 2004
* Bicycling, Mountain Bike and Runner’s World: January 2006 through present
* Black Digest: Named ‘Negro Digest’ from November 1961 through April 1970, then Black Digest from May 1970 through April 1976.
* CIO: The Magazine for Information Executives: back to Volume 1, Number 1 from Sept/Oct 1987
* Cincinnati Magazine: January 1971 through December 2005, at which point it seems to switch to being an annual city guide titled Cincinnati USA
* Cruise Travel: June 1979 through December 2007
* Ebony Jr!: May 1973 through October 1985
* Indianapolis Monthly: January 1995 to the present
* Jet: November 1961 through October 2008
* Maximum PC: October 1998 through the present
* New York Magazine: April 1968 through December 1997. Fascinating that some of the magazines still have the original mailing label on them (see this example from a July 1969 issue of New York )
* Organic Gardening: November 2005 to the present
* Popular Mechanics: January 1905 through November 2005
* Popular Science: stretching back to an issue for March of 1872 when it was known as Popular Science Monthly through to February 2008
* Prevention: January 2006 through the present
* The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: which started out as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago in December of 1945 through November of 1998
* Vegetarian Times: March1981 through November 2004
* Women’s Health and Men’s Health: January 2006 through present. I found it very amusing to be able to scan the covers of all the issues so easily - true for all of these magazines of course, but funny to see cover after cover of almost identically clad men and women exercising.

http://gruber-tom.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-magazinsuche.html

# American Cowboy
# Atlanta Magazine
# Baseball Digest
# Better Nutrition
# Black Belt
# Black World/Negro Digest
# Bulletin
# Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
# CIO Magazine
# Cincinnati Magazine
# Cruise Travel
# Dwell
# Ebony
# Indianapolis Monthly
# Jet
# Liberty Magazine
# Men's Health
# Mother Jones Magazine
# New York Magazine
# Popular Mechanics
# Popular Science
# Prevention
# Runner's World
# The Alcalde
# Vegetarian Times
# Women's Health

[Nick Tomaiuolo]

Edward,
I'm very interested in seeing Google account for its coverage of periodicals. I've seen several lists (none from Google and it's August 2009) but none claim to be comprehensive. Can you point to a relatively good list or have you come up with an effective hack to discover which magazines are covered? Thanks.
Cheers,
Nick Tomaiuolo Central CT State University

[Edward Vielmetti]

Here's a further development:

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/11/list-of-all-magazines-now-available-in.html

an available list of titles, here:

http://books.google.com/books?as_pt=MAGAZINES

I'll post a plain text list if someone makes one.

[Nick Tomaiuolo]

Here is a list of the magazines in the Google Book search, along with other interesting information such as coverage and whether the publication is indexed by a database or vendor. This list is the result of visual inspection of each title from the browsable Google list.
http://web.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/googlemagazinelist.htm