Guides: BUS 461: Entrepreneurship: Business Databases

Business Databases

Business Source Elite
This database provides full-text articles of more than 1,110 business publications and covers accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing and sales.
CPA Handbook
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Handbook contains CICA's official pronouncements and authoritative guidance on accounting, assurance and public sector accounting standards in Canada.
IBIS World
"IBISWorld offers web-based, “off-the-shelf” research reports on thousands of global industries. Through Redeemer University, you now have access to a large selection of IBISWorld reports for Canada and the US. IBISWorld analysts use official and publically-available sources as well as industry contacts, industry associations, non-public sources, proprietary in-house data and statistical modeling as they write their industry reports. These reports are updated 1-4 times per year depending on the industry and changes that have recently taken place in that industry." (IBISWorld)

Academic Search Ultimate
A multi-disciplinary database that provides full-text articles from nearly 4,600 journals, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
Canada Commons
"The definitive database for Canadian studies, with over 200,000 policy and government documents. Formerly known as the Canadian Electronic Library, . . . it includes over 25,000 e-books from leading independent Canadian publishers and university presses." (https://coherentdigital.net/)
Credo Academic Core
"This Collection includes 3 million entries from notable subject encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, companions and readers covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than 6 million research concepts. In addition to full-text content, the Academic Core Collection provides access to more than 1,000 videos and animations, as well as 500,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs and maps."
JSTOR
Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, IV, V, VII
Depending on agreements between journal publishers and JSTOR, there is sometimes a 3-5 year delay in full text

Dimensions (free account required)
This is a comprehensive index that is similar to the citation indexes of Web of Science. Each citation provides a list of its references and a citation count plus a list of citing documents. Searches can be limited to open access resources only. For non-open access resources, this is a great place to find what might be available and then search further for it in our databases or on Google Scholar. Note: Free account required for access.