A professional magazine or professional journal is a
periodical
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published by the governing body of a
profession
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Professional/Trade Journals
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, Library. The standard of quality of such a periodical may be similar to that of a
scholarly publication
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...
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A professional journal is said to be one which is "published by the profession and for the profession", which cannot be charged with being dominated by trade, and which "serves a higher and therefore a better use" than a so-called ]trade journal
A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for this ...
"by printing in an unbiased way the subject matter".[(1912) 7 The Journal of the Allied Societies 279]
References
*Philip Ward Burton
Principles of Advertising
Prentice-Hall. 1955.
*Christine Nolen Taylor. Publishing the Professional Journal or Newsletter: An Editors Guide. American Dental Association. 1981
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*Klaus-Jürgen Evert (ed). "4609 Professional journal". Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning. IFLA. Springer. Volume 1
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