Types of Periodicals: Professional, Trade & Industry Journals

1. Information Today
2. Social Work Today
3. Computers In Libraries
4. News Photographer

Available at Eva B. Dykes Library

• Current trends, news & events in a particular field
• Product, company & biographical information
• Statistics, including forecasts
• Some book reviews

• Written for practitioners; uses jargon of the field

• Practicioners or journalists with subject expertise

• Soruces often cited, but full documentation is not always provided

• Commercial/trade publishers or professional associations

• Charts, tables, illustrations
• Ads related to the profession/industry

1. Business Source Premier
2. PsycINFO
3. Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts

*see Eva B. Dykes Library's list of databases available online.