Trade Literature

Trade periodicals carry articles and news aimed at the members of a particular business, industry, trade, or profession

Find them in HOLLIS by searching likely keywords and getting the proper subject terms. Them redo the search, using Resource Type Periodicals

  • Electronic industries
  • Household electronics industry
  • Petroleum industry and trade
  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • Pharmacy
  • Railroads
  • Shoe industry

Many may be found in the business literature or in the literature of a particular profession (medicine, education)

Many are available full text in the Internet Archive. Search: (Trade) AND collection:(Periodicals) AND Railroads. Select Media Type: Collections

Online Books Page has many links to digitized trade and industrial periodicals.  You can search readily in the Online Books Page via Google Advanced Search.  Example:

all these words: Periodicals
AND
any of these words: Railroad Railroads

site or domain: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The Online Books Page has a periodicals list (incomplete) that can be browsed or screen searched.