What are Zines?
Fanzines (or zines) are magazines published by individuals or groups of individuals who have a particular subject interest or who just want to express their own ideas to the public. These are generally self-published magazines, usually issued with less than 2,000 copies, and typically have irregular publication times (i.e. not monthly or quarterly, etc.). Although most zines are published independently, some zines may be published similarly to standard library periodicals, including publication information, reviews, editorials, and regular numbering sequences. However, the typical zine is usually stapled together, sometimes folded and in small print, may have strings holding it together, or any other means of collating.
Browse by Subject
You can search for zines at BGSU by performing a keyword search or a genre search (using zines) in the BGSU Libraries Catalog.
BGSU has created local subject headings for our zine holdings as another way to find zines.
- For personal zines use perzines
- For review zines use reviewzines
- For letter zines use letterzines
- For music zines use musiczines
- For diplomacy zines use dipzines
- For art zines use artzines
- For slash zines use slashzines
- For D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) zines use d.i.y.zines
How to Use the BPCL & What to Bring With You
- BPCL's hours are more limited than the main floor, but we're open late on Monday and Tuesday.
- We're an archive/repository, so most of our materials cannot be checked out.
- Most of our collection is not open for browsing. You need to request materials at our reference desk with your university ID or a photo ID.
- The reference collection is open for browsing! It's one of the best places to get started with popular culture research.
- We have a copier and a scanner available for copying/scanning materials that cannot be checked out. There is a fee for copying, but scanning is free.