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Since you are a PhD student, you should have access to your university's subscriptions to big, general scientific journals like Nature and Science, as well as PNAS. Nature and Science has more basic articles on news and such that aren't as technical as the original research articles, but are clearly for a more scientific audience. More on reddit.com

OP or a mod marked this as the best answer , given by u/caspararemi . I subscribe to loads (literally about 20 or 25 at this point) of magazines. Magazines Direct is fine for setting up and managing subscriptions, the problems are when you order anything eles like magazine files or folders. Three times I've ordered items, and three times I've had problems. First time I didn't bother chasing as it was a cheap magazine folder. Both the following times I did chase up and they'd keep telling me they'd been dispatched, but they'd replace them, and I'd end up getting random back issues instead. Honestly a nightmare and now I just buy generic magazine files or folders from other sites instead of their branded ones. What is this? More on reddit.com

The New Yorker. I only do it so I can leave a couple on the coffee table when we have company. They’ll say “oh, you subscribe to the New Yorker?”, a little flustered, as they realize they’re in the presence of a true patrician, and I’ll say “yes, of course.” While presenting my complimentary subscriber’s only tote bag. At this point they usually offer either themselves or their most attractive female relatives to me sexually. More on reddit.com

Does your local library have eBooks? It would eliminate the ownership and the subscription More on reddit.com