Collection of industry research reports and related information. Includes Canadian industry reports (NAICS) and industry iExpert summaries. Includes US industry reports (NAICS), industry iExpert summaries, specialised industry reports, and specialized industry iExpert summaries.
ABI/Inform: In your search results use the Document Type limiter on the left side of the page to pick "Industry Reports"
Includes citations and abstracts for more than 4,000 scholarly journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers. This database will time-out after 30 minutes of inactivity. To avoid losing your research, please save your results within that time period. Browsing/marking results does not constitute activity.
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Business Source Complete: Limit search to "Industry Profile" or browse "Industry Profile" category
Indexing, abstracting and full-text from business sources including journals, news, trade publications and market research reports.
TIP: Search these databases for articles as well, using words that describe the industry and other terms that describe the type of information that you are looking for (examples: market research, statistics, etc.)
News sources
Search major news sources for the most up-to-date information about trends in the industry. In a Google search, limit to news. For access to articles that are behind pay walls, try one of our library news databases:
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 2,300 major Canadian and U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
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