Databases

Business Source CompleteBest Bet

Business Source® Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

• This product supersedes Business Search Premier.

OrbisBest Bet

Orbis contains information on close to 400 million companies and entities across the globe, with 41 million of these having detailed financial information. It provides comparable information on companies, with extensive corporate ownership structures and a holistic view. Data highlights include: unique identifiers, industry codes, trade and detailed company descriptions, standardized and projected financials, agency ratings, global and domestic ultimate owners, M & A deals and rumors, patents and intellectual property, royalty agreements, and stock data and earnings documentation. Search companies by name or BvD ID number.

ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI / Business Premium Collection)Best Bet

ProQuest One Business is an intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. Designed to help business researchers balance theoretical and practical learning, and acquire research skills that will make them successful in their courses and careers. ProQuest One Business content includes: company, industry, and country reports from providers such as Fitch Solutions and Economist Intelligence Unit, and in-depth analyst reports from J.P. Morgan; scholarly journals and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers; full text of the three major global business news sources: The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Financial Times; and a robust collection of videos.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

Academic Search Complete provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Alberta Stock Exchange Bulletins

The Alberta Stock Exchange was established in 1913 by an act of the Province of Alberta. Headquartered in Calgary, stocks trading on the exchange in the early years were mostly mining, resource exploration and oil sands. This collection provides online access to issues of the Bulletin published between September 1, 1981 and November 26, 1999.

APA PsycInfo

APA PsycInfo's interdisciplinary content contains more than 4 million bibliographic records centered on psychology and the behavioral and social sciences. It contains citations and summaries of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1806 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,500 periodicals from more than 49 countries written in 29 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to present. Over 80,000 records are added annually through weekly updates. More than 36 million references in over 870,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters; retrospective to 2001 and earlier, where available; more than 3.2 million references from 1920 to 2000.

• Coverage is from 1803 to the present.

Audit Analytics. Audit + Compliance

Audit Analytics Audit + Compliance module addresses core informational demands for tracking, analyzing, and understanding audit, regulatory and disclosure issues and trends. All disclosure issues are individually reviewed and categorized with Audit Analytics proprietary issues taxonomy for normalization.

Audit Analytics: Account + Oversight

The Accounting + Oversight module is designed to illuminate the big picture of the audit and regulatory environment. Gain insight into audit quality, trends in PCAOB inspections, shareholder satisfaction with auditors, and more.

Bloomberg

Business E-books online

Business E-books Online gathers 500 expert-selected textbooks and reference materials in business education in convenient digital format. All of the texts in the collection are curated by expert editors to ensure their relevance to the full spectrum of business programs.

Canada Commons

Trojman Corporation and Coherent Digital have developed a new version of Canadian Electronic Library with more content and a new platform - Canada Commons. Canada Commons brings rare, hard-to-find content from Canada that's relevant to a wide range of studies including sociology, anthropology, business and economics. Canada Commons offers extensive coverage of Canadian materials with 25,000 ebooks from scholarly and independent publishers; 180, 000 public policy papers; over 200,000 titles; and a 4,000 entry directory of Canadian research and government organizations. Content was previously available on the dèsLibris platform and is now exclusively on the Canada Commons platform.

Canadian business & current affairs database

Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database combines full text and indexed content from all four subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). Content comes from a broad range of Canadian sources and includes millions of full-text articles and records from 1933 to current, providing an ideal research environment for those interested in Canadian current events, business, science and technology, medical, humanities and the arts, and hundreds of topics.

Canadian Newsstream

Canadian Newsstream provides users with unmatched access to current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from over 360 news sources.

• Coverage is selectively from 1985 to the present.
• Includes fulltext of articles.

CANSIM (Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System)

Statistics Canada's database providing access to current and historical time series data collected on a wide variety of subjects by Statistics Canada as well as other government agencies, such as the Bank of Canada.The database itself consists of approximately 550,000 series, many of which constitute a data record spanning several decades. Some series contain more detail than is published in print form.

Colourbox

Colourbox (education license), offers over 4 million images and videos that can be used for any non-commercial purpose.

Compustat (North America and Global edition via WRDS)

Accessible in the Business Library and Haskayne computer labs. A valid University of Calgary e-mail account is required.

Compustat North America is a database of U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items.

Compustat Global provides authoritative financial and market data covering publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalization, including coverage of over 96% of European market capitalization and 88% of Asian market capitalization. Hundreds of data items, ratios and concepts and up to 12 years of annual history is included.

CPA Canada standards and guidance collection (CPACHB)

The CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection is a complete electronic reference source, providing up-to-date information on accounting and assurance standards, public sector accounting standards, and much more.

CRSP Database (Center for Research in Security Prices)

This database, designed and implemented by CHASS, provides access to the data compiled and distributed quarterly, by the Center for Research in Security Prices, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. This database provides access to NYSE/AMEX/Nasdaq daily and monthly security prices and other historical data related to over 29,000 companies.

Ebook central

• Access to subscribed content only. Personal account must be created to access some features

Ebooks are offered from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools, such as Bookshelf. Titles from the former ebrary Academic Complete collection are included.

EconLit

EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886. It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more. EconLit indexes six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.

EDGAR

Filings for Canadian, International, and U.S. companies trading on American stock exchanges.

• Coverage is for the previous four years.
• Includes fulltext of filings.

Execucomp

Accessible in the Business Library and Haskayne computer labs. A valid University of Calgary e-mail account is required.

Includes datasets for: annual compensation; company financial and director compensation; deferred compensation; director compensation; long term incentive awards; outstanding equity awards; pension benefits; plan based awards; stock option grants.

EY Passport (EY/Passport)

Electronic version of Ernst & Young's popular tax library offers a wealth of tax and business knowledge on more than 150 countries. Sections featured include: Doing Business In, The Global Executive, Worldwide Corporate Tax Guide, Worldwide VAT and GST Guide, Transfer Pricing Global Reference Guide, and Global Oil & Gas Tax Guide.

Factiva

Provides worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.

• Due to license restrictions, access is limited to 6 simultaneous users.
• Interface in English, German, French or Chinese; contents in 22 languages.

Films on Demand

Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group. It provides wide range of educational topics in the social sciences, humanities, science, mathematics, health, and career counseling. As well, it indexes the contents of the films so that you can put together a series of excerpts from several films.

Financial times historical archive

The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue through 2010. Every article, advertisement and market listing is included--shown both individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. It began as a City of London news sheet and grew to become one of the best-known and most-respected newspapers in the world. This historical archive is a comprehensive, accurate and unbiased research tool for everyone studying the economic and business history and current affairs of the last 120 years. Initially focused on the global financial and economic issues that were to become the predominant forces of the twentieth century, the Financial Times expanded coverage in the post war years, reporting on topics such as industry, energy and international politics. In more recent decades, coverage of management, personal finance and the arts has been added. Today, with more full-time foreign correspondents than any other European newspaper, a wider readership internationally than in the UK, worldwide circulation of nearly 500,000 and estimated global readership of more than 1.3 million people, the Financial Times is recognized as the complete newspaper for the business sector throughout the world. It is also accessible through Gale NewsVault and can be cross-searched with other Gale newspaper collections.

FP Advisor

• Access to subscribed content

Gale OneFile. Entrepreneurship

Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.

Gartner

Web site provides access to Gartner's in-depth market research reports on information technology, product descriptions and comparisons, information on trends, and a calendar of upcoming conferences and events for IT managers, specialists, and business interests.Includes webinars.

Globe and Mail

Provides access to full-text of the Globe and Mail Newspaper from January 1, 1985 to present.

Google Scholar

Grant Connect

University of Calgary IP access only

Grant Connect is a fundraising research platform that helps users identify funding opportunities from a database of thousands of foundations, corporations, and government programs and manage funding prospects from identification to stewardship.

I/B/E/S from Thomson Reuters (via WRDS)

Accessible in the Business Library and Haskayne computer labs. A valid University of Calgary e-mail account is required.

I/B/E/S provides both summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other important financial items, as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations.

IBISWorld

IBISWorld is a wide-ranging collection of U.S. and global industry market research and U.S. risk ratings. It contains business reports in five categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings and company research for the U.S., global industry research (including a special collection of China Industry Reports), and selected economic and demographic data. Market analysis components include overviews, industry performance and outlook, competitive and regulatory environment, major competitors, operational conditions and key statistics. U.S. risk reports discuss industry and market risk, including industry life cycle, growth potential and economic sensitivity. Downloadable report elements include SWOT analyses, statistical tables and graphs.

IMF eLibrary data

Formerly: International Financial Statistics Online

Provides comprehensive access to International financial statistics (IFS). View and download predefined data reports or create and share your own views of IMF data.

InFact / Conference Board of Canada

Get inFact’s full suite of economic forecasts and human resources research. This all-access subscription is the ultimate insights package with access to over 10,000 premium research reports and forecasts.

Key Business Ratios

Key Business Ratios provides access to competitive benchmarking data. Industry benchmarks are compiled from D&B's database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios (users choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios) for public and private companies in 800 lines of business. Contains industry balance sheet and income statement information along with ratios organized by SIC codes.

LabourSource

Westlaw Canada LabourSource is home to grievance arbitration decisions, court decisions, Labour board decisions from accross Canada, collective bargaining materials, and exclusive access to leading labour commentary such as Brown & Beatty. LawSource provides you with a wealth of Canadian primary law, plus commentary and value-added tools such as KeyCite Canada, the Canadian Abridgment, the Canadian encyclopedic digest (CED), Words and phrases, and Canadian law reviews and journals.

MSCI ESG direct

An online ESG research platform designed to provide academic institutions with an integrated suite of tools to conduct research and analysis across a spectrum of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

NetAdvantage

This site includes a variety of S&P products. Data includes both government and corporate bonds, stocks, industry surveys, earnings guide, and mutual funds.

Newspaper Source

Provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.

• Coverage is from about 1994 to the present.
• Includes fulltext articles

OECD iLibrary

The OECD iLibrary, the new platform giving seamless and comprehensive access to statistical data, books, journals and working papers, is now available. It replaces SourceOECD... OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998.

PAIS Index

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index includes PAIS International and PAIS Archive. PAIS International database contains continually updated records for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS Archive is a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, and covers monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics.

Passport

Online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. Coverage is global, more than 200 countries are researched..

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Reference Solutions

Reference Solutions, a service of Data Axle, is an Internet-based reference service. The site was designed for use as a reference and research tool for students, job seekers and researchers. Reference Solutions includes 2 business databases: Canadian Businesses and U.S. jobs/Internships. Canadian Businesses provides accurate phone-verified information on every company in Canada. Their files are processed weekly against the National Change of Address Program. Selection criteria include: Employee size, Sales volume, Primary and secondary SIC codes, Executive title, Ticker symbol, and Location type. U.S. jobs/Internships combines the power of Reference Solutions with indeed.com to find jobs with their state-of-the-art mapping tool and view results with detailed business profiles. Selection criteria include: Job title, Company name, and Business type.

Regional Business News

Database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional business news incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

S & P Capital IQ

Scopus (Elsevier)

Scopus, an abstract and citation database, includes peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources.

SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval)

All securities filings for companies trading on Canadian stock exchanges.
SEDAR is the system used for electronically filing most securities related information with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Filing with SEDAR started January 1, 1997, and is now mandatory for most reporting issuers in Canada.

• Coverage is from January 1, 1997 to the present.
• Includes fulltext or scanned images of filings.