Market Research Guide

Ryerson Library Periodicals Collection

Location

Periodicals in print and microfiche are located on the 5th floor, and are listed by title in the library catalogue. Journals by Title A-Z accessible from the Library homepage, includes the titles of periodicals available in print or electronically in the Library.

Tools for Market Research

To access the databases from outside of the library please see the instructions at Remote Access to Articles and Indexes

• ABI Inform Abstracts & full text--business, management, product information. Part of the Proquest database
• ABI/Inform Trade and Industry Abstracts & full text--business, management, product information. Part of the Proquest database
• Business and Company Resource Center Business and Company Resource Center offers dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.
• Business Source Elite Covers more than 1,100 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. Includes Datamonitor reports (tab: Company Profiles) for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
• CBCA Complete Full text & abstracts, periodicals & newspapers--business, trade & current affairs--strong Canadian content
• Conference Board of Canada (e-library) Contains over 1,300 research reports in the areas of economic trends, public policy, risk management and travel and tourism trends
• EIU Economist Intelligence Unit provides country, industry, management analysis and forecasts on over 200 countries, nine strategic industries, and a full range of management functions.
• Emerald Library MCB Emerald provides access to over 190 management journals
• Factiva Major international business newspapers and trade journals, co. financial profiles
• Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) [select Marketplace]
• FP Advisor Provides information on public offerings by Canadian companies, governments and agencies
• Global Market Information Database (GMID) Offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, comments from expert industry and country analysts
• Lexis/Nexis A full-text database with primarily business, legal and news resources, law reports, company filings,  journal and newspaper articles, broadcast transcripts, etc.
• Mergent Online A suite of global business and financial information products offering over 10,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies
• PMB Category Reports PMB surveys include information on Canadians' usage of over 3,500 products and services
• Reference Canada Use Reference Canada to find information such as company names, telephone and fax numbers, contact names, and annual sales volumes for businesses across Canada.

For additional sources of company financials and related articles see also Locating Finance and Investment Information.

See also the Library's guide: Company/Industry Sources.