Trade Magazines are specialized types of publications that cover a specific area of business or an industry. For example, trade magazines covering the construction sector include Engineering News Record, Contract Design, Construction Executive, and Builder. You can find trade magazines for most any sector of business.
Trade magazines can be found in these two databases:
To find trade publications, you would do a search and then limit by source type to “Trade journals”. On the left side bar, you would click the “more” link under Source type to show the full list of sources, then click the check box to include trade journals. Results would update to show only trade publications.
To find trade publications, you would do a search and then limit by source type to “Trade publications”. On the left side bar, you would click the “more” link under Source type to show the full list of sources, then click the check box to include trade journals. Results will update to show only trade publications.