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.
EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886.
EconLit with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for nearly 600 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the four American Economic Journal titles).
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.
Full text access to news, business, and legal resources.
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.
Online access to OECD books, reports, annuals, working papers, loose-leaf binders, periodicals and databases. Many, but not all, are available for free. The Trent Library does not cover the cost to purchase documents.
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.
