Librarian
Industry Trends
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WGSN BeautyProvides content, tools and technology for creative professionals in the cosmetics industry. Create an account to access the design tools.
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FlipsterAccess full color versions of popular magazines. You can also download the Flipster mobile app from most app stores (Android or Apple products) to read on the go.
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Canadian NewsstreamOffers access to the full text of nearly 300 newspapers published in Canada, including the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail.
Company & Industry Reports
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IBISWorldProvides access to industry reports containing analysis, statistics, and market characteristics on a wide variety of Canadian industries, organized by NAICS code.
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PassportThis international database provides access to 1,300 market reports that analyze 21 consumer and service industries across 80 countries. Also includes more than 6,500 company profiles.
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MarketLineMarketline Advantage provides access to a comprehensive collection of company, industry and country information, extending across 200+ countries and every major industry.
Health & Wellness
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Natural MedicinesProvides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
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Health Source: Nursing / Academic EditionProvides access to over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines including nursing and other allied health professions.
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Alt-HealthWatchFocuses on alternative and holistic approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides abstracts and indexing for articles in over 160 journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and newsletters.
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Health Source: Consumer EditionCovering topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol and women's health, this collection of consumer health information provides access to over 80 full text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times and more.
COSM 200 - Ethics and Sustainability
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Sustainability: How the cosmetics industry is greening up by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2013
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GreenFILESearch 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:
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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.
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UnsplashUnsplash is a great resource for royalty-free high-resolution images.
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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.
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Getty Open ContentOver 100,000 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute.