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While trade publications, magazine articles, and news articles are not peer-reviewed, they still contain a lot of valuable information on current topics and emerging trends.

Use this page to learn about sources for finding reputable trade, magazine, and news sources that may be beneficial to your research.

Pro tip:

• In both Academic Search Premier and Proquest One Academic you can limit your search results to magazines, newspapers, and/or trade publications under Source Types in the filter panel after your intial search.

What is a trade publication? 

Trade publications are professional news publications that professional organizations use to communicate new research, job opportunities, anything that a group of professionals with common interests might want to know about. 

What is a good strategy to find trade publications? 

Get to know the the professional organizations in your field. Our library research guides have lists of some good organizations to get to know. On their websites, take a look at their publications -- sometimes they're free, sometimes they're not. If they're not see if you can get access to the articles by looking for the title using the NJIT Library Journal Finder.

Check out our full list of research guides -- our subject guides have lists of professional societies -- investigate their websites to see what kind of research is going on with their members.

What are some examples of trade publications?

• Communications of the ACM
• IEEE Internet Computing

Why search for news? 

Newspapers give you a well written report on new developments that are of interest to the "general public". Newspapers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal follow journalistic standards before publishing content. Newspaper articles can be a great way to find out about research -- a good strategy is to chase down the original research article mentioned in the article.