Business - Top Databases
McMaster users have access to the following databases for research in the area of business. Click on a database name to access the resource. For a list of the top business databases by type of content (e.g., articles, reports, statistics, etc.), please review this guide (PDF). For a more comprehensive list of databases relevant to business research, please consult this listing.
| Database Name | Description | |
| * | BestCase | Contains the full-text of some of Canada's leading law reports including Labour Arbitration Cases and Dominion Law Reports. |
| * + | Business Monitor International | Provides country risk, industry and competitive intelligence for 175 countries. |
| * | Business Source Complete | Contains citations and full-text of articles from over 11,000 sources, including academic journals, magazines, and trade publications. [Online Tutorial with Audio] |
| + | Canadian Business Database | Brief profiles of 1.5 million Canadian companies, including privates. Search by company name, by SIC or NAICS, by geography, etc. [Online Tutorial with Audio] |
| + | CANSIM via CHASS and Statistics Canada (updated daily) CANSIM via E-STAT (updated annually) | Time series statistical tables from Statistics Canada, Bank of Canada, CMHC and Labour Canada. |
| * | CBCA Reference & Current Events | Articles from 500 key Canadian journals, magazines and newspapers. Selected full-text. |
| * | Conference Board of Canada e-Library | Full-text database containing research publications on economic trends, public policy issues and organizational performance. |
| * | CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) | Articles from 400 Canadian newspapers, magazines and journals. |
| * + | DBRS.com (Dominion Bond Rating Service) | Credit ratings on issuers of Canadian commercial paper, bonds, long/short term debt, preferred shares and asset-backed securities. Also includes Canadian industry studies and press releases. |
| * | EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) | Provides access to economic data and commentary on countries around the world. [Online Tutorial with Audio] |
| + | E-STAT | Contains Canadian census data and current & historical statistics on a wide variety of topics. |
| * | Factiva | Provides full-text access to current and archived news and business information from around the world. |
| * | FAITS (Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies) | Provides hundreds of industry reports and company profiles related to information technology worldwide. |
| * | IBISWorld | Contains over 700 U.S. and over 100 global industry reports at the five digit NAICS level. |
| + | Infomart (FP Advisor) | Contains corporate and financial data for Canadian companies. |
| * | InfoSci-Books | Collection of full-text books published by IGI Global. Covers research, trends, technologies, and challenges in the fields of information science, technology and management. |
| * | Knotia: Accounting and Assurance | Provides full-text access to key accounting manuals such as the CICA Handbook and the Interntional Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). |
| * + | 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.[Online Tutorials] |
| * + | MarketResearch.com Academic | Contains hundreds of full-text market research reports. U.S. emphasis. |
| + | Mergent Online | Business and financial information on 25,000 companies (U.S., Canada and the world). Also includes country profiles useful for international business research. |
| + | ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation Extraction Service and Infrastructure) | Includes data files from Statistics Canada, Gallup Canada and other polling companies, public-domain files and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
| * + | OECD iLibrary | Provides full-text access to books, reports, working papers, periodicals and statistical data published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. |
| * + | Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database) | Provides key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers around the world. |
* | SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval) | Contains annual reports, financial statements, and press releases from Canadian public companies. [Online Tutorial with Audio] |
| + * | Value Line Investment Survey | An investment advisory service that tracks approximately 1,700 companies in over 90 industries. |
| o | Web of Science | Indexes and abstracts articles from over 8,000 international scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas including business. Search by topic, cited works and more. |
| + | WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) | WRDS is a Web based interface providing access to recent & historical financial data from CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices), Standard & Poor's COMPUSTAT, Mergent's FISD (Fixed Income Securities Database), I/B/E/S (Institutional Broker's Estimate System), Risk Metrics and other important financial and business data sources. |
| Databases marked with a: | |
| * | contain some full-text |
| + | contain numeric and/or financial data |
| o | contain citations and/or abstracts only - check McMaster's library catalogue OR click on  (if available) to determine if the Library owns or has access to the source. |
Last Reviewed: March 16, 2012
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