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Link to Consumer Reports and Instructions on how to browse issues or search for product reviews

Direct Link to Consumer Reports

How to Use Consumer Reports

The Consumer Reports link will take you to:

 

To browse articles from previous issues, click on the + in front of the year you are interested in and then select the issue. You will see a list of articles from that issue that you can view. 

To search for reviews on a particular product, click on Search within this publication. This box will appear:

To search for a product, leave the JN “Consumer Reports” in the search box. Type a space after the last quotation mark followed by the word AND (it must be in all capital letters), followed by another space and the product you want to find reviews for.

For example:

When the search is completed, you will see a list of articles arranged with the most applicable article first. You can also rearrange the list by date.

You may have two options for viewing the article. The HTML option is limited to the text of the article only. The PDF option will reproduce what the article looked like in the magazine, including photos and charts.

 


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