Use these sources to find background information on your topic. Background sources are generally not appropriate for citation in research assignments.
This is an e-book platform, with many reference books available. The books can be searched as a group, or an individual title can be opened, viewed, or searched.
Oxford Reference is collection of over 500 reference ebooks, including dictionaries, guides, and companions spanning 25 different subject areas. Contents range from short-entry, general reference to more in-depth articles on specialized subjects.
The perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. From Oxford University Press, VSI offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects. Offering a bridge between reference content and higher academic work, all titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.
Over 4,000 reference e-books in the Social Sciences. Fully searchable as a group or browse by title, subject, or author.
Gale OneFile: Business provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily.
Full text access to news, business, and legal resources.
Full text access to news, business, and legal resources.
Public securities documents filed by issuers with Canadian provincial securities regulatory authorities.
A growing data resource that will include Statistics Canada datasets, public opinion data, public-domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Data can be searched, analysed and extracted. Tables can be saved in Excel or Adobe format. Full datasets or subsets can be downloaded into statistical packages.
Statista is a German company specializing in market and consumer data. According to the company, its platform contains more than 1,000,000 statistics on more than 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and 170 different industries.
The Statista Consumer Insights offers a global perspective on buying behavior and media usage, covering the online and offline world of the consumer. It is designed to help marketers, planners, and product managers understand consumer behavior and consumer interactions with brands.
eCommerce Insights is your starting point for market analyses, benchmarking and lead generation. As a database of over 20,000 detailed shop profiles worldwide, we provide you with the web sales figures as well as relevant KPIs and company information, which give you a comprehensive insight into the individual shop.
