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Professional Magazines or Journals
A professional magazine or journal is one produced by a professional organization and tailored to the interests of its members. The peer-review process is not employed in the process of presenting content to readers. The editorial staff is responsible for the accuracy and verifiability of content as it works with contributors.
Professional magazines present news and analysis, editorial comment, and book reviews of interest to the association's members and often take the form of newsletters.
In some fields, they also present extensive professional development articles for the improvement of skills. The level of writing and execution can sometimes be quite high, approaching the scholarly. This sort of professional journal can be very useful to both practitioners of a professional and to college students who are engaged in professional preparation.
EXAMPLES OF PROFESSIONAL MAGAZINES
Trade or Industry Magazines
A trade journal or trade magazine is a periodical published with the intention of marketing ideas, products, or services to a specific industry or type of trade/business. The collective term for this area of publishing is the trade press. The peer-review process is not employed in the process of presenting content to readers. The editorial staff is responsible for the accuracy and verifiability of content as it works with contributors.
Trade and industry journals typically contain advertising content focused on the industry in question with little if any general-audience advertising. They also generally contain industry-specific job notices, a highly pertinent aspect to many readers.
Many trade publications can also be considered news magazines with a very specific topical focus. Some trade journals operate under controlled circulation, meaning the publisher decides who may receive complimentary subscriptions based on each individual's qualification as a member of the trade. This allows a high level of certainty that advertisements will be received by the advertiser's target audience.
In some instances, the boundary between trade publication and peer-reviewed journal has blurred. One such example is BioTechniques, which contains peer-reviewed technical reports and technology reviews while containing heavy advertising content, a significant proportion of the articles being authored by or in collaboration with vendors who advertise in the same issue.
EXAMPLES OF TRADE MAGAZINES
The databases in the box below are chosen as being appropriate for most career-related research projects. Most careers are covered in the more general, comprehensive career databases such as Ferguson's Career Guidance Center, Vocational and Career Collection, Vocations and Careers Collection, or ProQuest Research Library.
If your career matches the coverage of one of our smaller, more specialized databases, try searching for articles there. For example, aspiring chefs and caterers could search in the Culinary Arts Collection while future fashion designers might try the Berg Fashion Library.
The Job and Career Accelerator is a part of Learning Express Library and contains powerful tools and expert guidance to help you search for jobs.
The A-Z list of HCC library databases is -
Bloomsbury Fashion Central provides access to Berg Fashion Library as the leading resource for students and researchers of fashion studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, with great visual and integrated content, it is invaluable for researchers in the areas of fashion, museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and more. Content highlights include the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, consisting of images and in-depth articles, Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion, the A-Z of Fashion, and The Dictionary of Fashion History, academic books that cover important writings on fashion, museum exhibitions from museums around the world, and color images from prestigious partners such as the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Mode Museum, and the Commercial Pattern Archive (Full-text).
Offers full text for scholarly business magazines and journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. (Some full-text)
Designed for a broad range of engineering professionals and researchers of all types, and includes over 2,000 full-text journals.
The Business Searching Interface (BSI) provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired.
LearningExpress Library is an easy-to-use online test prep resource that helps people improve their core academic skills, earn a high school equivalency, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.
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A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text). Learn to Use ProQuest Research Library
Almost 400 periodicals, 450 books, and hundreds of videos covering a full range of small business and entrepreneurial help topics. (Full-text)
Detailed, user-friendly repair guides and manuals for all kinds of small engines. Covers lawn equipment, boat, motorcycle, tractor, and other engines. (Full-text)
Provides the contents of more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. (Some full-text)
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