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Business

This guide lists select online, electronic and print information sources available to Kwantlen Faculty, students and staff.

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Business Statistics | CANSIM | Consumer Income & Spending | Demographics | Economics | ENTR 3160 | Statistics | Industry Statistics Marketing | Trade Statistics


Books	Journal & Article Indexes
New Business Books Search by Subject Heading: You can effectively find more books through our Library Catalogue  using subject headings. You might want to try these sample canned subject heading searches: Accounting Advertising Business Communication Business Writing Business Ethics Canada economic conditions Consumers Decision making Electronic commerce Employee motivation Entrepreneurship Human Resource Management  see also Personnel Management Investments foreign Macroeconomics Microeconomics Retail trade Small business Online Business E-Books Collections Books 24x7 provides full text, unabridged content of electronic books.  Net library's Business collection includes Business-related ebooks that can be accessed anytime from your desktop. Call Numbers If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:  BF 481  Psychology of work        HD 31-37  Management  HD 58.7  Organizational behavior  HD 6961  Industrial relations  HF 5415-5429.6  Marketing & retail trade  HF 5549  Personnel Management HF 5601-5689  Accounting     HF 5801-6191  Advertising  Selected Reference Titles Blue Book of Canadian Business BC Business to Business sales & marketing directory Canadian Key Business Directory Canadian Trade Index Dictionary of E-Business : a definitive guide to technology and business terms Dictionary of Business Terms FP Markets, Canadian Demographics FP Survey, Industrials Fraser's Canadian Trade Directory FP markets, Canadian demographics	Business Databases Business Source Premier Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) - Complete Dun & Bradstreet Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Database Hoover's Company Records Other Useful Indexes Academic Search Premier Canadian Newsstand Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q) CANSIM (Canadian Socioeconomic Information Management System) Trade Analyser - Canadian and world trade data gathered by Statistics Canada's International Trade Division. Canadian Census Analyser provides access to Canadian Census statistics and data. Oxford Reference - go to Economics and Business (Online) CICA Standards Handbook – as a part of this database Tax Suite Premium – as a separate collection Business Journals Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist. Business Journals @ Kwantlen Both Electronic and Print Journals Check the Journal Titles link to find which database your title is full text in. TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide. Online Journals, Reports & Resources Canadian social trends Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing, 2009 and 2010 BusinessDictionary.com Harvard Business Online CanadaOne - Online magazine for small businesses Globe and Mail Report on Business Market Research Handbook Harvard Business School Working Knowledge New York Times Business Section. Small Business - Canada Canada Business: services for entrepreneurs - Canadian Government website. Small Business Accelerator Guides - These are accelerator guides for a variety of small businesses. Jointly created and maintained by the Ike Barber Learning Commons at UBC in conjunction with the VPL Business Division, they contain many local sources.  Be Your Own Boss - An entryway into the world of self-employment Canadian Youth Business Foundation - A non-profit organization which helps young Canadian entrepreneurs ages 18-34. The Community Futures Development Association of British Columbia - A grass roots organization established to facilitate rural community  initiatives Small Business BC - A non-profit resource centre for business information and services. Industry Canada - Electronic Commerce Branch - Policies and strategies for e-commerce.
Business Directories
Directories - Canada Canadian Company Capabilities - a centrally maintained current searchable database of 60,000 Canadian businesses - see the UBC tutorial for help with this resource. Canadian Trade Index - Lists business contact information. Searchable by type of product.	Directories - International globalEDGE Company Directories- searchable by region or country Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - Includes information on over 150,000 companies and 60,000 products. Some Canadian companies are included. Doing Business The World Bank created this interactive mapping interface that allows users to discover how easy (or difficult) it is to do business in 181 economies. For each economy, more than 20 maps covering various issues is provided. A color-coded system is used to classify the business climate, with green, orange and red for easy, moderate and difficult.
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Web Resources	Business Cases
General Business Sites - Canada Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - A social think tank for public policy. Canadian Economy Online - A guide to the national economy. Centre for the Study of Living Standards - An office of research tracking economic trends. Industry Canada - Canadian Government website. SEDAR - System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval - Contains company and mutual fund profiles and public securities filings. Strategis Industry - Canada's business and consumer site including directory, trade, investment, economic analysis, research and more. TSX - Toronto Stock Exchange - includes a listed company directory and the TSX Venture Exchange (formerly the CDNX.) Vancouver Board of Trade - has as its mission to promote, enhance and facilitate the development of the region as a Pacific centre for trade, commerce and travel. Lower Mainland/Southwest BC Industrial Profiles Standards in the accounting and auditing industries are undergoing a number of changes. The CICA (Chartered Accountants of Canada) has a web page Canadian Standards in Transition pulling together the standards–both Canadian and international–that are currently in transition.The CICA also has an e-newsletter (more like a blog, actually) called In the Loop: Standards in Transition to help keep everyone up to date on the changes. Email subscriptions are also available. CA Magazine is another good source for discussion on this topic General Business Sites - International AnnualReports.com - American based on-line library of corporate annual reports. Bloomberg.com - Market data, news, charts and analysis. Business Ethics - Links to a wide variety of information, including articles and case studies, on the subject of ethics in business. CAROL - Annual Reports Service - direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. Access is free but registration is required. GlobalEDGE - A site developed by Michigan State University that contains current information on the business climate, news, history, political structure, economic landscape and statistical data for 196 countries. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) The US Census Bureau has a NAICS search engine (to identify which code applies to which industry) and also has a NAICS > SIC and SIC > NAICS converter. Prendismo - is a provider of digital video and podcast content and contains more than 14,000 video and audio clips on business and entrepreneurship. TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you.   Citation Styles APA - American Psychological Association guidelines. MLA - Modern Language Association standards.	Rotman Business Information Centre Rotman Cases are researched and written by Rotman faculty to illustrate how principles of management research can be applied in practice. CasePlace  is an initiative of the Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education. Intel Reference Room  Real Solutions for Businesses - what products and technologies from Intel can do for leading companies worldwide. The Times 100 Case Studies Schroeder & Schroeder Inc. Usability Case Crawler - Cases dealing with HCI (Human-Computer interaction) OCG Case Studies  UK Public sector examples of actual completed case studies Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and contains a number of specialized business-related networks - for example: Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Management, Economics, Information Systems Dewey Research Advisor  MIT Library database of business and economic FAQs and answers  - FAQs Associations & Societies The Women's Enterprise Centre is BC's leading resource for women entrepreneurs, offering skills development, business loans , free business guidance, business resources, mentoring, networking and events! Business Council of British Columbia - Represents large and medium-sized enterprises engaged in business in British Columbia drawn from all major sectors of the provincial economy. Vancouver Economic Development Commission - established to promote economic development in the City of Vancouver.


 




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Updated by: Elaine Samwald
Business Liaison Librarian
Updated: 06/30/11(ES)