Librarian
Industry Trends
- WGSN Fashion & Beauty This link opens in a new windowContains collection reviews, trend reports, image library, market research, and buying guides for the fashion industry. In addition, contains forecasts, reports, and images on the Canadian and international beauty industry. Create an account to access the design tools and download reports.
- Women's Wear Daily (WWD) This link opens in a new windowContains current and older issues of Women's Wear Daily.
- Flipster This link opens in a new windowContains current issues of popular magazines including Maclean’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Walrus, Today’s Parent, Toronto Life, Vogue, American Cinematographer, and more. Download the Flipster mobile app (Android or Apple) to read on the go.
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new windowContains articles from national and local Canadian newspapers. Includes The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, and the Vancouver Sun, among others.
Company & Industry Reports
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowContains reports on Canadian industries. The industry reports include industry performance, outlook, product, markets, competitive landscape, major companies, and operating conditions.
- Passport This link opens in a new windowContains Canadian and international company and industry reports on consumer goods and services. (Note for Mac users: there are known issues if you access the portal with Firefox. Please use a different browser.)
- Marketline This link opens in a new windowNow known as GlobalData Explorer, this database contains Canadian and international company reports, industry reports, country reports, and influencer reports.
Health & Wellness
- Natural Medicines This link opens in a new windowContains evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
- Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, magazines, and trade publications on nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, and medical law.
- Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles and magazine articles on alternative and holistic approaches to health care and wellness.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new windowContains magazine and newspaper articles on a wide variety of healthcare subjects, such as disease, fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, and women's and children's health.
COSM 200 - Ethics and Sustainability
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowSearch this database for articles about the environmental impact of the cosmetic industry.
Royalty Free Images
Looking for images to use in your presentations or assignments? Here are some resources where you can search for royalty-free images with a Creative Commons License:
- FlickrFlickr is an online image hosting service that provides access to tens of billions of images.
When you search for images, choose "All creative commons" as your license type. You can also limit your search by dominant colour, orientation, size, and other stylistic choices. - Google ImagesTo filter your Google image search results, choose TOOLS > USAGE RIGHTS > LABELLED FOR REUSE.
You can also limit your results by size, colour and image type. - UnsplashUnsplash is a great resource for royalty-free high-resolution images.
- PixabayPixabay is another great resource for royalty-free high-resolution images. PLEASE NOTE: Avoid the top row of results in your searches - these are images from a stock photograph supplier, Shutterstock. These images are thumbnails for paid resources and contain a watermark. Anything below the top row of results will be free images with Creative Commons licenses.
- Getty Open ContentOver 100,000 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute.