Off campus access to the majority of the databases listed below is available to UBC students, faculty and staff only. Click here for more information about accessing databases from off campus.
Visit our home page for access to Research guides that list further resources by subject.
For an A-Z list of business databases, click here.
- Accounting
- Analyst Reports
- Articles
- Business Law
- Companies
- Countries
- Directories
- Dissertations
- Economics
- Finance
- Industries
- Management Information Systems (MIS)
- Market Research
- OBHR
- Statistics
- Trade
- Transportation
- Urban Land Economics
Analyst Reports
Articles
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Top Business Article Databases
- ABI/Inform
- Business & Company Resource Center
- Business Source Complete
- Canadian Newsstand
- CBCA Complete
- Emerald Management Plus
- Factiva
- LexisNexis Academic
Additional Article Databases
- Academic Search Complete
- Access World News
- ACM Digital Library
- AgEcon Search
- AgeLine (FREE)
- AGRICOLA
- CAB Direct (CAB Abstracts & Global Health)
- China Academic Journals
- China Online Journals
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Compendex Engineering Village 2
- Composites Industry Abstracts
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- Ebusiness Forum
- EconLit
- Ed/ITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and Education
- Elsevier ScienceDirect
- eMarketer
- ERIC
- Forrester Research
- Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage From 1844
- GreenFILE
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library
- IngentaConnect
- JSTOR Collection
- LGBT Life with Full Text
- MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO)
- Materials Business File
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
- Oxford Scholarship Online
- Periodicals Archive Online
- PsycINFO
- Sage Journals Online
- Sociological Abstracts
- SportDiscus
- SpringerLink
- ULI Development Case Studies
- Urban Studies Abstracts
- Web of Knowledge / Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews and Journal Citation Reports
- Web of Science
- Wiley Online Library
Business Law
Companies
- Bloomberg
- Business & Company Resource Center
- Business Source Complete
- China Stock Market & Accounting Research Database
- CRSP / Center for Research in Security Prices
- Datastream
- EDGAR
- Factiva
- Financial Services Canada on CIRC
- FP Infomart
- Fundata Mutual Fund Databases
- Hoover's Company Records
- LexisNexis Academic
- Mint Global
- ORBIS
- Passport GMID
- S&P Capital IQ
- SDC Platinum
- SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis & Retrieval)(FREE)
- SME Benchmarking Tool (formerly Performance Plus)(FREE)
- Standard & Poor's Compustat
- Standard & Poor's ExecuComp
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
- Thomson ONE
- TSX-CFMRC
- Uniworld Online
- WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Countries
Directories
Dissertations
Economics
Finance
- Bloomberg
- China Stock Market & Accounting Research Database
- CRSP / Center for Research in Security Prices
- Datastream
- EDGAR
- Fundata Mutual Fund Databases
- I/B/E/S: Institutional Brokers Estimate System
- S&P Capital IQ
- SDC Platinum
- SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis & Retrieval)
- SME Benchmarking Tool (formerly Performance Plus) (FREE)
- Standard & Poor's CompuStat
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
- Thomson ONE
- TSX-CFMRC
- WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Industries
Management Information Systems (MIS)
For additional databases and resources, see the MIS research guide.
Market Research
The Library has purchased access to a significant number of market research report databases for UBC students, faculty and staff. Please note: market research reports are very expensive, thus libraries are not able to provide access to all packaged market research reports found on the Internet.
- Agri-Food Trade Service
- Business Source Complete
- Canadian Advertising Rates and Data (CARD)
- eMarketer
- Forrester Research
- Freedonia Focus
- IBISWorld Industry Reports
- MarketResearch.com Academic
- Passport GMID (Euromonitor)
- Polling the Nations
- Print Measurement Bureau
- SimplyMap
- Small Business Accelerator
OBHR
For additional databases and resources, see the OBHR research guide.
Statistics
- Basic Economics (previously Citibase)
- BCStats
- CANSIM (CANadian Socioeconomic Information Management) Database (Statistics Canada)
- Census of Canada 2006: Profiles
- Census of Canada 2006: Topic Based Tabulations
- Datastream
- E-STAT (see: CANSIM)
- Government of Canada Publications
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- International Monetary Fund Statistical Databases
- Proquest Statistical Insight
- OECD iLibrary
- OECD.Stat
- Passport GMID (Euromonitor)
- Trade Analyser Database
- Trade Data Online
- TSX-CFMRC
- UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
- World Development Indicators Online
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