Douglas College

Business

Articles & Databases

Use the following databases to find articles on your topic.
  • Start with these databases:
    Business Source Complete : articles in business, company information, marketing, management, accounting, finance etc.
    CBCA Complete : Canadian journals, magazines and newspapers from all subject areas, including business, marketing and company information. 

  • More databases: 
    CBR:Canadian Business Resource : profiles top performing Canadian companies.
    CARDonline :  advertising rates and data for media in Canada
    Canadian Newsstand : newspapers across Canada, including major daily newspapers.

Books

Library Catalogue  - Find books at Douglas College Library.

Company Information

CBR: Canadian Business Resource - Contains detailed profiles of top performing Canadian companies. Also includes biographical information on senior executives.
Hoover's Company Profiles  - U.S. company profiles.
SEDAR : contains Canadian securities filings and may be used to find public company profiles and annual reports.
Industry Canada : company profiles, business information by sector, economic analysis, industry statistics, and more.
Federally Incorporated Companies : Canadian company information.
Canadian Key Business Directory - REF HF 5071 C244 2003 
Annual Reports - primarily U.S. publicly traded companies.
EDGAR : Company filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Corporate websites - search Google to find useful product information, annual reports, mission statements, code of ethics, etc.

Industry Information

Sample Journals & Magazines

Canadian Business
Business in Vancouver
Forbes  (online & in print)
Harvard Business Review  (online & in print)
Marketing Magazine 
Business Week
 

Business Planning

Business Planning  - sample plans from Small Business BC
Business Plans Handbook  - REF HD 62.7 B865
Business Owner's Toolkit  - sample plans

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.

BusinessDictionary.com online
The Canadian Dictionary of Business and Economics REF HC 112 C733 1993
Canadian Key Business Directory REF HF 5071 C244 2003
A Dictionary of Business and Management online
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking online

Statistics

  • Canada
    BC Stats   
    Includes Business Indicators, Consumer Price Index, Labour Force Statistics, Regional Statistics, Migration and Immigration, and Historical Data.
    Statistics Canada
    Canada's national statistical agency, Statistics Canada provides extensive demographic and social, socio-economic and economic statistics on Canada
    E-STAT
    Canadian statistics containing CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) and Census data. 
    CANSIM
    Contains data on population, labour, industry, national accounts and more. 
    Community Profiles
    Find census statistics for Canadian communities including cities, towns, villages, Indian reserves, metropolitan areas, health regions, provinces, territories and Canada.
  • International Statistics and Country Information
    Bureau of Labour Statistics
    The main U.S. Federal agency that is responsible for collecting information on labour economics and statistics. Contains an easy to use index.
    U.S. Census Bureau - Business & Industry
    Economic data by sector. 
    OECD - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
    Contains statistics that are international in scope as well as online documents relevant to Economics. 

Citation & Style Guides

APA, MLA etc.

Writing

Business Writer's Free Library
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary


last updated: November 10, 2011