If you are not a current York community member and do not have access to York University Libraries' databases, you may find this page useful as it lists business resources/databases that are accessible to you. Some resources require logging in with your Toronto Public Library (TPL) card.
Business Source Complete: (TPL login required). Offers premium content including peer-reviewed and business-related journals, magazines and newspapers, including scholarly, trade, and popular titles such as Harvard Business Review. Other content includes business e-books, case studies, company profiles, country economic reports, faculty seminar videos, industry reports, executive and analyst interviews, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and working paper collections. Consult this Getting started guide.
CBCA - Canadian Business & Current Affairs: (TPL login required). Provides interdisciplinary coverage of Canadian topics including the areas of business and current affairs. Offers references and many full text articles from Canadian journals, magazines, newspapers, and newswires. Dates of coverage vary by title but some full-text titles are available back to the early or mid-1980s, while citations for many publications are available from the early 1970s onward.
The Wall Street Journal (TPL login required) provides full, unlimited and free access to the latest in-depth business and finance news from wsj.com. The Toronto Public Library's subscription provides access to a four-year archive for article searches, access to WSJ videos and podcasts. When accessing remotely, an account with wsj.com is required. Another benefit of the wsj.com account is the ability to save articles and to sign up for newsletters. Consult this guide to get started.
CARDonline: (TPL login required) Canadian Advertising Rates and Data provides advertising rates and related data available on every significant medium in Canada and on selected international media. Includes newspapers, periodicals, radio stations and networks , television stations, online advertising, billboards, superboards, transit, mobile signage, sports venues, video displays, supermarkets, theatres, etc.
MarketLine: (TPL login required) includes industry reports, country information, company analysis, case studies and financial deals. It provides SWOT analyses for over 2500 public and private enterprises worldwide, and offers fast and reliable insights of thousands of industry sectors including market value, volume and segmentation data and Porter’s Five Forces analysis, as well as offering PESTLE analyses for some 150 countries. Recent additions include the company financial analysis tools – financial deals tracker, company report generator, company prospector and investment and advisory prospector. Video Tutorials: a range of tutorials which walk you through how to access Company, Industry, Country and Financial Information and data.
Brandchannel.com: this online exchange resource provides a global perspective on brands and includes articles, papers, a brand directory, and links to marketing industry resources. It also includes national (including Canadian), regional and global reports on best brands which can be accessed by clicking on the “Interbrand” tab and then on the sub-tab “Branding Studies” within the “Knowledge” tab.
Mergent Online provides information for investors on more than 10,000 publicly-traded U.S., Canadian and international companies, organized in company reports. Profiles for each company includes: financial details of companies; earnings estimates; stock information; business description; executives; competitors; and current headline news. The eResource includes industry profiles and analysis as well as country profiles. Getting started guide
Mergent Intellect covers millions of publicly-traded and private companies around the globe (over 130 countries). Use this to generate a list of competitors in a specific industry. Company records are sourced from a combination of the Hoovers and Dun and Bradstreet Million Dollar Directories. Other business information includes executive contacts, a job search tool, and a global corporate family tree feature, industry news, industry reports (First Research), and access to U.S. census data and demographic reports. Intellect also offers access to Key Business Ratios (KBR) for competitive benchmarking data. Getting started guide
EasyBusiness (formerly Kompass Business Directories) includes information on international companies, products and services, trade names and executives with access to over 44 million companies in 70 countries. Getting started guide
Scott's Directories is a directory of Canadian businesses that is updated monthly. Directory entries (Company Profiles) include: the company's legal name, address, telephone and fax numbers, website address, executives, type of business, products or services, number of employees, sales and year established. Getting started guide
Gale Directory Library - available through the Toronto Public Library, it contains directories of associations, brands, broadcast media, business information, consultants, and publications. Read more about this tool here.
Financial Post (FP) Advisor: Available through the Toronto Public Library. Information on Canadian publicly traded companies, private companies, Crown corporations and municipal and provincial agencies as well as predecessors.
Score (nonprofit org in the U.S.) offers free business templates, e-guides, checklists, blogs, infographics, videos, tools and other helpful resources to help one start and grow their small business.
MaRS's startup toolkit contains useful advice, lessons and tips from their community of entrepreneurs and operators on fundraising, company building, people operations, operations, sales, product, recruiting, marketing, finance, health, strategy & leadership, customer experience, and design.
HS Talks (available through the TPL) contains thousands of talks, lectures and case studies on business and management. Specially prepared and presented by leading experts, including Nobel Laureates. A vast range of animated lectures, talks and case studies covering both the fundamentals and the latest developments. Video tutorial | Getting started guide
LinkedIn Learning (available through the TPL): Over 16,000 video tutorial courses led by experts on web design, software development, photography, project management, graphic design, audio and videos and more. Getting started guide
O'Reilly Learning (available through the TPL): The latest books and videos from major technology and business publishers. Covers web and software development, management, marketing, and more. Getting started guide