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Find Company and Industry Reports

Passport, IBISWorld, and Marketline contain company and industry reports.

Statista contains a huge variety of charts, statistics, and other information, including customer profiles, company and industry information.

Business Source Complete contains PESTLE analysis in its Country Profiles

Passport This link opens in a new window
Contains 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.)
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Contains reports on Canadian industries. The industry reports include industry performance, outlook, product, markets, competitive landscape, major companies, and operating conditions.
GlobalData Explorer This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as Marketline, this database contains Canadian and international company reports, industry reports, country reports, and influencer reports.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Contains statistics, charts, tables, and public opinion polls on marketing, demographics, consumers, communication, technology, politics, health, and leisure.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles on business and economics, as well as company, industry, and country reports.

Find Technical Manuals and Instructional Videos

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
Contains video-based courses taught by industry experts on a wide range of subject areas. Subscription is managed by Humber not the Library. Contact 8888 for help.
O'Reilly Online Learning This link opens in a new window
Interactive learning, live online training courses, books, videos, and more. Download the O'Reilly mobile app for offline viewing.
10 user limit.

Find Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Contains articles from national and local Canadian newspapers. Includes The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, and the Vancouver Sun, among others.
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Contains national and local U.S. newspapers. Features The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Contains international and domestic newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, company financial information, industry and market news, legal resources, medical news, abstracts, and country profiles.
News (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Includes Canadian, US and international newspapers, and radio and tv broadcasts and transcripts. Also includes local Ontario newspapers like the Etobicoke Guardian.
ABI/Inform This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, eBooks, newspapers, and magazines on business and economics; First Research industry reports, Economist Intelligence Unit commodity reports and country reports and Oxford Economics country industry forecasts.
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, books, reference works, conference proceedings, dissertations, blogs, and podcasts on business, current events, and education in Canada.
Flipster This link opens in a new window
Contains 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.

Find Journal Articles

A general search for journal articles is best done on the Page 1+ search box on the Library home page.

If you are getting too many, or not enough on topic, results, try one of the smaller databases listed below:

Communications and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles and trade publication articles on communication, media studies, and public relations.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles on business and economics, as well as company, industry, and country reports.
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, books, reference works, conference proceedings, dissertations, blogs, and podcasts on business, current events, and education in Canada.
ABI/Inform This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, eBooks, newspapers, and magazines on business and economics; First Research industry reports, Economist Intelligence Unit commodity reports and country reports and Oxford Economics country industry forecasts.