How Do I Find Business Databases?

Some of the most popular databases for business research are listed in the table below.  Click on a database name to access the resource.
For a list of the top business databases organized by source types (e.g., articles, data, reports, etc.), please review this guide (PDF).

Top Business Databases
Database Name			Description
		Accounting and Assurance	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).
		Business Monitor International	Provides country risk, industry and competitive intelligence for 175 countries.
		Business Premium Collection  [Includes ABI/INFORM, Accounting, Tax & Banking, Asian & European Business, 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.
		Business Source Premier	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.
		Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA)	Articles from key Canadian journals, magazines and newspapers. Multidisciplinary database with selected full-text.
		Canadian Business Database	Brief profiles of 1.9 million Canadian companies, including privates. Search by company name, by industry code (SIC or NAICS), by geography, etc.
		Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly (CPI.Q)	Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals. Multidisciplinary database with selected full-text. Emphasis on Canadian content.
		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.
		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.
		DataBank	International selection of economic, social and environmental indicators from the World Bank. Current and historical data for over 200 countries.
		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.
		EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit)	Provides access to economic data and commentary on countries around the world.
		Factiva	Provides full-text access to current and archived international news as well as corporate and financial data.
		IBISWorld	Contains U.S., Canadian and global industry reports. Search by keyword(s) or by industry code (NAICS - North American Industry Classification System).
		LexisNexis Academic	Provides full-text access and/or indexing to thousands of sources relevant to business research including international newspapers, company directories, and legal materials.
		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.
		MarketResearch.com Academic	Contains hundreds of full-text market research reports. U.S. emphasis.
		Mergent Online	Business and financial data on public companies (active & inactive) worldwide. Also includes country profiles useful for international business research.
		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).
		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).
		Passport	A global market information database containing key business intelligence on countries, cities, companies, markets and consumers around the world.
		SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval)	Contains annual reports, financial statements, press releases and other documents from Canadian public companies.
		Statista	Includes millions of statistics on  thousands of topics from a variety of sources. Also contains market forecasts, dossiers, industry reports, infographics, digital market outlooks and consumer market outlooks. Worldwide coverage.
		Thomson ONE	Contains corporate data and research reports written by analysts at the world’s top investment banks, brokerage houses and research firms.
		Value Line Investment Survey	An investment advisory service that tracks approximately 1,700 companies in over 90 industries.
		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.
		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.