Research Guides: CMNS1115 (Sestan/McDonald): 6. Finding business resources in a database

Other Databases useful for Business Research

The video on this page demonstrates Business Source Ultimate, which is an excellent database for business research projects. The library recommends trying other databases listed below including CBCA Complete (Canadian Business and Current Affairs).

CBCA Complete This link opens in a new window
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets
Subject: Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 8,600 full text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Subject: All subject areas.
Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Detailed profiles of US of companies & top performing Canadian companies.
Subject: Business.
Business Source Ultimate Country Report This link opens in a new window
Provides you with an overview of countries political, economic, legal, environmental etc. structures. Click on the COUNTRY tab or enter the name of the country in the box labelled "Browse for"
Passport This link opens in a new window
Demographic and economic data on every country in the world (with forecasts), as well as statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources for country, market, consumer, and lifestyle profiling. This database was previously referred to as the Global Market Information Database or GMID.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista provides statistical data on many topics including media, business, politics, and society. Sources include market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

Finding academic articles in a library database

Test your knowledge: Business Source Ultimate
Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of searching for articles in Business Source Ultimate. It's not for marks, just for you to see what you've learned!

Business Source Ultimate

Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Business Source Ultimate provides full text of 3,500 business periodicals of which more than 2,000 are peer-reviewed journals. Additional full text non-journal content includes financial data, case studies, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses (detailed information about a company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats).
Subject: Business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.

Using the Passport database

Test your knowledge: Passport
Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of searching for resources in the Passport database. It's not for marks, just for you to see what you've learned!

Passport This link opens in a new window
Demographic and economic data on every country in the world (with forecasts), as well as statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources for country, market, consumer, and lifestyle profiling. This database was previously referred to as the Global Market Information Database or GMID.

Passport Tutorial
A 5 minute tutorial video which highlights how to find Statistics and Analytical Reports and use the Industries, Economies, Consumer tools etc.