Google has scanned the entire run of Life Magazine and makes it freely available as part of its Google Books database. The Saturday Evening Posthas been scanned by EBSCO and made available in the Academic Search Complete database.
This database offers an online archive of the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, which for many decades has been a major index to articles published in news magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report as well as popular magazines like Good Housekeeping and Reader's Digest.