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    A ABI/Inform (Abstracted Business Information)
    Citations, abstracts and selected fulltext articles from 1000+ business journals
    Use for: finding business articles, case studies and company information
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    Academic Search Complete
    A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.
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    Access World News
    News reports on from North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East.
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    ACM Digital Library
    Technology-related journals, magazines, newsletters and conference proceedings
    Use for: Technology topics such as e-commerce, supply chain management, human computer interfaces, RFID, etc.
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    AgEcon Search
    Free repository of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in applied economics, including agricultural, energy, environmental, resource, and consumer economics.
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    AGRICOLA
    Database of information on every major agricultural subject. North American coverage.
    Agri-Food Trade Service
    Market information, trade counselling and export support activities, which will take the exporter from initial enquiry to foreign market.
    Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Demography
    Useful guide to Canadian demographic statistics and articles. Indexes "Canadian Social Trends."
    Asia-Studies Full-text Online
    Thousands of very useful reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of issues
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    B Basic Economics (previously Citibase)
    US macroeconomic time series data
    BCStats
    Current reports and statistics from British Columbia's central statistical agency.
    Bibliography of Asian Studies
    Bloomberg
    Use for: finding stock prices, ratios, betas, business news, freight rates, stock exchange members, etc.
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    Business & Company Resource Center
    One-stop company research resource. Includes Analyst Reports from Reuters that are not replicated by Investext.
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    Business Expert Press
    Business Plans Handbook
    Collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America
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    Business Source Complete
    Business Source® Complete provides journal articles and other materials relating to business, management, economics, banking, finance, and accounting
    Use for: finding business articles, case studies, company and industry information.
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    C CAB Direct (CAB Abstracts & Global Health)
    Database of articles in agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health, natural resources management and conservation. International coverage.
    Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
    Collection of directories of academic journals for the disciplines of business, education, and psychology.
    Canadian Advertising Rates and Data (CARD)
    Advertising rates and related data on significant media in Canada and on selected international media.
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    Canadian Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (INKBR)
    This database provides users with a set of business ratios, measured as relationships between companies' balance sheet and income statement categories, across industries classified as per Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.
    Canadian Newsstand Complete
    Canadian Newsstand Complete offers the full text of over 230 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail, National Post and the Vancouver Sun.
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    CANSIM (CANadian Socioeconomic Information Management) Database (Statistics Canada)
    CANSIM is a comprehensive database from Statistics Canada containing more than 38 million numeric time series.
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    Capital IQ
    Carbon Market News
    Carbon Market News(CMNS): Global news service. Includes daily global news articles, weekly and bi-weekly reports, online price data (historical and exchange prices) and market commentary.
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    CBCA Complete
    Includes journals, magazines and newspapers published in Canada in the fields of business, current events, education and general reference.
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    Census of Canada 2006: Profiles
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    Census of Canada 2006: Topic-based Tabulations
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    China Online Journals
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    China Stock Market & Accounting Research Database

    Numeric data on China stock markets and financial statements of China's listed companies

    CICA Handbook
    The CICA (Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants) Handbook provides information on accounting practices and processes.
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    Communication & Mass Media Complete
    Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
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    Compendex Engineering Village 2
    Premier engineering database, covering the core literature of the engineering field, including related specialties and technologies.
    Composites Industry Abstracts
    Contemporary Women's Issues
    Contains content in the areas of development, human rights, work, violence & exploitation, education, politics, science & technology, health, legal issues, demographics, family life, arts and the media. Contemporary Womens Issues both academic and nonacademic material, including: journal articles, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies.
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    CQ weekly Plus
    CQ weekly and 5 other titles
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    CRSP / Center for Research in Security Prices
    NYSE/AMEX/Nasdaq daily and monthly security prices and monthly data for US Government bills, notes and bonds.
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    D Datastream
    International economic, company and financial data, that can be downloaded for analysis, display and print
    Dissertation Abstracts
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    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
    DOAJ electronic journals available in the UBC collection. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Journals in the directory covering all subjects and languages.
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    E EBSCO Databases
    Family of databases including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, etc.
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    EconLit
    Core literature on global economics /American Economic Association
    Use for: researching scholarly topics in economics, business and public management.
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    Economist Historical Archive
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    Ed/ITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and Education
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    EDGAR
    US public company filings submitted to the US Securities & Exchange Commission.
    Use for: finding financial and competitive information and documents (financial statements, reports) for US publicly traded companies.
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    ELN Media
    Elsevier ScienceDirect
    1700+ full text electronic journals covering the physical sciences, applied sciences, life sciences, social sciences, business & economics. Also provides access to other journal collections, reference works, indexes and web search engines.
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    eMarketer
    Market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies
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    EMBASE (OvidSP)
    International (but European-focused) biomedical database with strengths in drug-related subjects and rehabilitation sciences.
    Emerald Publishing
    Articles on major management disciplines including strategy, leadership, marketing and human resource management.
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    ERIC (EBSCO interface)
    Most comprehensive education index, covering nearly 1000 journals, primarily American. Also indexes ERIC documents, including conferences, curricula, reports etc. ERIC (EBSCO) includes many links to full text.
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    E-STAT (Statistics Canada)
    E-STAT: Statistics Canada "electronic learning package" for students, contains comprehensive statistical and demographic data about Canada, including detailed census profiles from 1986-2006.
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    Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database
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    F Factiva
    Factiva provides a single point of access to a deep archive of news and business information, allowing users to conduct in-depth research on companies, industries, regional affairs.
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    Films on Demand
    Foodline Market
    FOODLINE MARKET (FOMA) provides extensive coverage of published information on food and drink markets, worldwide.
    FOODnetBASE
    Over 300 books on basic food science, processing, packaging, and biotechnology.
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    Forrester Research
    Forrester Research identifies and analyzes emerging trends in technology and their impact on business and the economy.
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    FP Infomart
    Corporate information and current and historical financial reports on Canada's leading 500 companies; tools to retrieve, manipulate and analyse fundamental data for over 1400 Canadian companies; IPO and New Issue information on Canadian companies; and upcoming dividend payments.
    Use for: Financial research on Canadian companies
    Freedonia Focus
    Market research database focusing on consumer, technical and high tech products and services.
    Use for: Market research, business plan preparation.
    Fundata Mutual Fund Databases
    Information for over 4200 active Canadian mutual funds from almost 200 sponsor companies
    G Global Market Information Database (GMID)
    Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage From 1844
    Archive from June 1844 to 2008.
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    Google Scholar
    World's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports).
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    Government of Canada Publications
    Access to federal government information collected by the Depository Services Program.
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    GreenFILE
    Around 300,000 articles on green issues, including green building, global warming, etc.
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    GREENR
    Resource that focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment.
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    H Hoover's Company Records
    Hoover's profiles more than 40,000 public and non-public companies.
    Use for: introductory company and competitor research
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    I I/B/E/S: Institutional Brokers Estimate System
    Searching I/B/E/S earnings forecasts (U.S. and international)
    IBISWorld Industry Reports
    Over 700 market research reports, written at the 5-digit level of the NAICS code.
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    IEEE Xplore Digital Library
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    Index to Theses ... of Great Britain and Ireland
    Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland.
    Industry Canada (formerly Strategis)
    Canada's most comprehensive website for business information.
    Use for: finding Canadian company information, market research reports, small business information, and industry reports.
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    IngentaConnect
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    International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
    Full text of accounting standards and interpretations adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
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    International Monetary Fund Statistical Databases
    Annual, monthly, and quarterly financial and economic time series for more than 200 countries and over 40 regional and special groups of countries.
    Use for: finding data on the following topics: Balance of payments, Banking and Financial systems, Employment, Exchange rates, Fund position, Finance, Government, Interest rates, International liquidity and Banking, National accounts, Population, Prices, Production, and Trade.
    Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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    Investext (Now under Thomson One)
    Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image.
    Use for: finding research analyses and forecasts of company financial performance.
    J Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Web Editions
    Find: impact factor (the relative importance of journals within a given field) and other citation data.
    JSTOR Collection
    The Journal STORage database contains backfiles of 100+ journals from a variety of academic disciplines. Use for access to full text of the first issue (vol. 1) of a journal to within six months to five years from the present.
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    L Labour Spectrum (formerly Canadian Labour Law Library)
    Labour Spectrum is a complete electronic collection of dozens of volumes of labour law decisions and commentary covering decades of court decisions. Includes Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (CLAS). Access to more than 10,000 LAC decisions and 42,000 CLAS decisions.
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    LexisNexis Academic
    One of the world's premier fulltext news, government, legal, finance and business information services.
    Use for: finding news items from around the world (old and new) and for researching international corporate and legal materials. Extensive company directories.
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    LGBT Life with Full Text
    The premier resource to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
    Use for: searching issues on management and diversity.
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    M MarketResearch.com Academic
    MAIN TOPIC: MARKET RESEARCH
    Market research reports for consumer products, demographics, food, beverage, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and more
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    MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO)
    600 popular general interest and current events publications
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    Materials Business File
    Begun in 1985, Materials Business File is the database equivalent of the bulletins Steels Alert, Polymers/Ceramics/Composites Alert and Nonferrous Metals Alert.
    Use for: finding journal articles, patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books on topics related to the metals and materials industry.
    McGraw-Hill eBook Library
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    Merriam-Webster Dictionary
    MINT Global (Bureau van Dijk)
    MyiLibrary
    MyiLibrary is a platform for eContent, providing cover-to-cover search and browse access to the full-text of books and documents offered by leading publishers.
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    N National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
    The NBER is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that publishes economic research by academic researchers.
    Use for: finding the full text of NBER working papers on economic research from 1994 - present.
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    National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
    Negotech
    A searchable labour relations database developed and maintained by Human Resources Development Canada. Provides access to current collective agreements and settlement reports.
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    NetLibrary
    O OAIster Institutional Repository Search Engine
    "OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Our goal is to create a collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone."
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    O'Brien's Encyclopedia of Forms
    Resource for Canadian model legal forms and precedents: with general format for agreements ­to be adapted as needed, standard clauses as well as alternative clauses,­ commentary on the subject area in question providing context for the forms and precedents, and checklists ­in drafting agreements.
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    OECD iLibrary
    Access to ejournals, books, and statistics published by the OECD since 1998.
    Use for: full-text access to books, journals and statistics from the OECD.
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    OECD.Stat
    OECD databases with quarterly, monthly and annual time series for 29 industrialised OECD member countries, and some for developing countries too.
    OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
    OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.
    ORBIS (Bureau van Dijk)
    Outlook Online
    Catalogue of the holdings of British Columbia's public, college, and institute libraries.
    Oxford Handbooks Online
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    Oxford Reference Online
    100+ key Oxford University Press dictionaries and reference works
    Oxford Scholarship Online
    P Palgrave Connect Ebooks
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    Palgrave Connect Ebooks - Business & Management Collections
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    Passport GMID
    Numerical and analytical information from Euromonitor for 205 countries, their consumers, markets, and industries.
    Use for: finding international consumer retail reports & data, economic data, commodity production data, and general lifestyle & culture data
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    Performance Plus
    An on-line performance benchmarking tool. It includes more than 30 performance benchmarks to help small businesses determine how they measure up against their competitors.
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    Periodicals Archive Online
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    Polling the Nations
    Full text of survey questions and responses covering a broad range of issues, from polling groups such as Gallup, Harris, Roper, and more than 700 other organizations
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    Print Measurement Bureau
    Data on Canadian consumers, print readership, product usage and lifestyles.
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    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
    Searchable index of dissertations, some theses. The full text of dissertations and theses added to the database since 1997 are available to UBC users. See also: "Current research at the University of British Columbia" a database of dissertations & theses submitted by UBC.
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    Proquest Historical Newspapers
    Provides full-text online access to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor from the beginning of publication to approximately 5-10 years ago.
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    Proquest Statistical Insight
    Use for: finding US government and intergovernmental (UN, European Union, OECD, IMF, Asian Development Bank, etc.) statistics.
    PsycINFO (includes full text from PsycARTICLES)
    Covers psychology and the psychological aspects of various other disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations.
    PubMed Central (PMC)
    Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature and repository for NIH- and CIHR-funded research.
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    Red Book ( BC 211, Directory of Services for the Lower Mainland)
    Guide to community, business and government agencies and services in the Lower Mainland
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    R RefWorks and RefShare - Citation Management Software
    Create, organize and manage citations and produce bibliographies automatically.
    Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
    S S&P Capital IQ
    Comprehensive database of global public and private companies, investment firms and M&A transactions
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    Sage Journals Online
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    SDC Platinum
    SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis & Retrieval)
    Public securities information filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators from 1997-present.
    Use for: finding basic information (addresses, contact information, stock exchange listings) and documents (financial statements, prospectus, and news releases) for Canadian public companies and mutal funds.
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    SimplyMap
    Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data
    Small Business Accelerator
    The Small Business Accelerator (www.sba-bc.ca) assists with secondary market research efforts for BC entrepreneurs.
    SME Benchmarking Tool
    The SME Benchmarking Tool gives instant access to benchmark financial data that can help small businesses construct a business plan.
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    Sociological Abstracts
    Focuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles, citations to book reviews, and abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
    SportDiscus
    International database that covers all aspects of sport and fitness
    SpringerLink
    Full-text online access to journals published by Springer.
    Use for: finding full-text articles in journals published by Springer. Subjects include: business, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, law, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, and related subjects.
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    Standard & Poor's Compustat
    Company information and hundreds of financial data items collected from a variety of sources, including news releases, shareholder reports, direct company contacts, and quarterly and annual documents filed with the Securities Exchange Commission.
    Standard & Poor's ExecuComp
    Compensation history and current compensation data for US directors and executives of companies within the S&P 1500
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    Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
    Standard & Poor's investment research, including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corproations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook.
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    Statistics Canada: Index of downloadable publications
    Statistics Canada publications from the Depository Library
    STATSnetBASE
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    T Tax Suite Premium
    Offers collection of Canadian tax research materials with commentary from Ernst & Young. Includes full coverage of federal income tax, GST/HST & excise, & provincial taxes PLUS a daily tax email news service.
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    Teacher Reference Center
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    Termium Plus
    Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic database.
    French, English, Spanish dictionary.
    Thomson ONE
    Financial data and analyst research on public companies
    Trade Analyser Database
    The Trade Analyser Database has detailed statistics on Canada's trade with other countries.
    Use for: finding Canadian import and export data and world trade data.
    Trade Data Online
    TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services)
    Use for: finding articles, books, and technical reports on transportation research. Also includes, U.S. government reports on transportation and Canadian research from the Canadian Surface Transportation Research Database. Transportation covers highways, transit, railrods, maritime and aviation.
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    TSX-CFMRC
    The TSX/CFMRC database is a product of the TSX Group, which includes the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Markets and TSX Datalinx.
    Use for: researching historical stock prices and other corporate financial data for TSE and TSX-listed companies.
    U ULI Development Case Studies
    Case studies describing the development process of projects that are both innovative in their markets and financially successful and include photos, site plans, project data, and a report on the development process
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    UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
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    Uniworld Online
    Contact information for headquarters, branches, subsidiaries, and affiliates of multinational firms
    Urban Studies Abstracts
    Bibliographic records covering urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas.
    V VentureXpert
    Information covering venture, buyouts, private equity funds, firms, executives, portfolio companies and limited partners around the world.
    W Web of Knowledge
    Web of Science
    Online access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
    Use for: citation analysis of research journals.
    Wiley Online Library
    Use for: full text online access to journals published by John Wiley & Sons in the sciences, life sciences, law and business.
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    World Bank Data
    Development-oriented statistics from the World Bank: social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for over 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 to the present.
    WorldCat
    OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
    Use for: Verifiying & locating Inter Library Loans.
    WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
    WRDS is a Web-based interface which allows access to data from Standard & Poor's Compustat, CRSP, Execucomp, Global Insight (formerly DRI), I/B/E/S and TAQ (limited data).



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