Free trade magazines

TechXtra, the resource discovery tool for engineering, mathematics, and computing, which is based in Heriot-Watt University, operates an affiliation scheme with an organisation called Tradepub through which free magazines are available to qualifying professionals.

Here are some of the most popular titles:

EE Times Europe provides news, analysis, product and design information.

FibreSystems Europe delivers coverage of the technology and business issues affecting the specification, purchase and deployment of optical equipment, networks and services across Europe.

LBS Insider is focused news on the design, deployment, and use of location-based services (LBS) technologies around the world.

eWeek provides information for builders of e-business.

NASA Tech Briefs - a monthly magazine featuring exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners/contractors that can be applied to develop new/improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems.

Baseline - a practical guide to planning, costing and managing the implementation of next generation IT solutions to baseline results.

PipeLine and Gas Technology provides information on: engineering, construction, storage, transmission, etc

Hydrocarbon Processing provides job-help information to technical and management personnel in petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical/chemical and engineer/constructor companies throughout the world.

Chemical Processing is a magazine that focuses on chemical manufacturing and its complexities.

Many more are listed in the A-Z.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

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