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McMaster Users Only - Online access is restricted to current McMaster students, faculty and staff. MAC ID required.
Open Access - Online access is open to everyone, anywhere.
contains citations, abstracts or summaries
contains full-text
contains numerical data
contains online videos
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Some of the most popular databases for business research are listed on this page. Click on a database name to access the resource.
Top Business Databases - A to Z |
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Business Monitor International | Provides country risk, industry and competitive intelligence for 175 countries. |
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Business Premium Collection [Includes ABI/INFORM, Accounting, Tax & Banking, Asian & European Business, Business Video Database, Business Market Research, Entrepreneurship and J.P. Morgan Research] |
Provides full-text access and/or indexing to thousands of business sources, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade publications, newspapers, books, reports, videos and more. |
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Business Source Premier NOTE: Ultimate includes everything in Premier plus additional sources (EBSCO) |
Contains citations and full-text articles from thousands of sources, including academic journals, magazines, and trade publications. Also includes worldwide company, country and industry reports. |
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Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) | Articles from key Canadian journals, magazines and newspapers. Multidisciplinary database with selected full-text. |
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Canadian Business Database | Brief profiles of 2.1 million companies in Canada, including privates. Search by company name, by industry code (SIC or NAICS), by geography, etc. |
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Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly (CPI.Q) | Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals. Multidisciplinary database with selected full-text. Emphasis on Canadian content. |
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CANSIM via CHASS (McMaster Users Only) & Data Tables (formerly CANSIM) via Statistics Canada (Open Access) | Contains current and historical Canadian statistics on a wide variety of topics such as business, education, income, labour, manufacturing, population & demography, retail & wholesale and transportation. |
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Conference Board of Canada e-Library | Full-text database containing research publications and recorded conferences and webinars on economic trends, public policy issues and organizational performance. |
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DBRS (Dominion Bond Rating Service) | A Canadian rating agency providing independent evaluations of corporate and government issues. Includes rating reports on companies, countries and cities, as well as industry studies. Worldwide coverage with an emphasis on Canada. |
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EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) | Provides access to economic data and commentary on countries around the world. |
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Factiva | Provides full-text access to current and archived international news as well as corporate and financial data. |
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IBISWorld | Contains U.S., Canadian, Ontario and global industry reports. Search by keyword(s) or by industry code (NAICS - North American Industry Classification System). |
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Knotia: Accounting & Assurance and Taxation | Provides full-text access to key accounting manuals such as the CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection (formerly known as the CICA Handbook) & Interntional Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). |
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LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) | Contains thousands of instructional videos on a broad range of topics, including many relevant to business such as communication, data analysis, online marketing, project managment, programming and software. |
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MarketResearch.com Academic | Contains hundreds of full-text market research reports. U.S. emphasis. |
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Mergent Online - includes Investext | Contains business and financial data on public (active & inactive) companies worldwide. Also includes country profiles, industry reports, equity reports, bond data and more. The Investext tab contains full-text research reports written by analysts at the world’s top investment banks, brokerage houses and research firms. |
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) | Provides full-text access and/or indexing to thousands of sources relevant to business research including international newspapers, company profiles, and legal materials. |
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ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation Extraction Service & Infrastructure) | Includes data files from Statistics Canada, Gallup Canada and other polling companies, public-domain files and selected files from the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research). |
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OECD iLibrary | Provides full-text access to books, reports, working papers, periodicals and statistical data published by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). |
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Passport | A global market information database containing key business intelligence on countries, cities, companies, markets and consumers around the world. |
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SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval) | Contains annual reports, financial statements, press releases and other documents from Canadian public companies. |
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Statista | Includes millions of statistics on thousands of topics from a variety of sources. It also includes market forecasts, dossiers, industry reports, infographics, and more. Worldwide coverage. |
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Thomson ONE Subscription expired December 31, 2019. Replaced by Investext via Mergent Online. | Contains corporate data and research reports written by analysts at the world’s top investment banks, brokerage houses and research firms. |
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Value Line Investment Survey | An investment advisory service that tracks approximately 1,700 companies in over 90 industries. |
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Web of Science - Core Collection | Indexes and abstracts articles from over 20,000 international scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas including business. Search by topic, cited works and more. |
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WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) [Includes Compustat, CRSP, I/B/E/S, and more] |
WRDS is a web based interface providing access to recent and historical financial data. |
A list of our top business databases organized by source types (e.g., articles, data, reports, etc.). Click here or on the image below for the PDF guide.
