My academic library subscribes to a collection of Zinio eJournals/eMagazines. I'm also able to access additional eMagazines through Zinio with my Hennepin County Library card.
My academic library's access to Zinio requires a two-part log in process, which sometimes causes confusion to the students when they first try to access Zinio. First they must access the Zinio database through our library's website and create an account there. Once they've created an account they can check out magazines. Once they checkout the magazine they then have to reenter that information into the Zinio app to be able to access their reading materials. It can be a bit of a process for our less tech savvy students.
What's great about Zinio is that once you've checked out a magazine you can download it to your Zinio app and be able to read it offline. This does take space on your iPad, so you'll want to delete issues that you're no longer reading.
Zinio also offers the option to explore and read selected articles from various magazines for free. The options available are updated regularly.
I think as more and more journals become available as eJournals that academic usership of apps like Zinio will increase and students will have access to an increasingly wide variety of journals.
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