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Industry Research: Articles & Industry News

Articles in Trade Journals

Trade Journals and Industry Research

TIP: Articles in trade journals or magazines are especially helpful when conducting industry research, as these publications focus on specific trades, professions or industries and include current information on industry trends, new products or techniques and organizational news.

Journal Articles

Articles in Canadian Journals & Magazines

Interdisciplinary Databases with Business Coverage

Searching for Journal Articles - SPARK Guides

Quick Guides: Finding Articles

Search Tips

When searching online, various words are used to help broaden or narrow your search.  Here are a few tips you should know before searching any academic database:

Boolean operators: Most internet and electronic databases follow the rules of boolean logic.  Boolean logic refers to the relationships (connections or differences) between different search terms.  The most common boolean operators are:

AND - used to narrow a search and establish more relevant results by linking keywords together (e.g. "behavioural" and "psychology").

OR - broadens a search and get more results. Typically used for synonyms and words with variant spellings (e.g. "self-actualization" and "self-identity").

NOT - use to narrow a search and get more relevant results (e.g. "behaviouralism" not "humanism").

Truncation: used to find similar words with different endings

e.g. human* searches "human and humans"

e.g. educat* searches "education", "educate", "educational" etc 

asterisk (*)  searches for various different endings of a word in most databases (including York University), however LexisNexis uses an exlamation mark (!).