Future Skills-Diversity Institute

Reports include detailed performance data and analysis, supply chain information, forecasts, operating strengths and weaknesses, analysis of external drivers, major player market strategies, and industry profit and cost benchmarks.

Statista.com is one of the first statistics portals to integrate over 60,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 10,000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into over 20 market sectors, Statista provides business customers, researchers, and the academic community with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on media, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest. Sources of information include market researchers, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Toronto Metropolitan has access to Global Consumer Survey (GCS) via Statista.

Provides comprehensive insight and analysis on consumers, companies, markets, brands and products. Toronto Metropolitan has access to most of the Canadian reports and the complete set of U.S. reports

GlobalData Explorer is a comprehensive database including cross-sector and market data such as sector activity indicators and global ads, expert analysis, thematic research, business fundamentals, and alternative data such as tenders, job analytics. GD Explorer meets the needs of multiple disciplines and departments with cross sector coverage.

A note about GlobalData Explorer access:
Sometimes when accessing GlobalData, you may come across a Login page (see screenshot below). If this happens, just click on “IP Access” to access the database.

Designed to help business researchers balance theoretical and practical learning, and acquire the research skills that will make them successful in their courses and careers, ProQuest One Business is a complete business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.

EIU Viewpoint provides the political, policy, business and economic outlook for hundreds of countries and several industries, focusing on the dynamics that could impact organizations.

EIU Viewpoint includes:

• Forecasts for the global economy - 200 geographies
• Medium-term country forecasts
• Long-term country forecasts - 80 major economies
• Industry analysis and data - 26 sectors across 6 major industries
• Commodity forecasts - 25 critical goods
• Daily Insights
• Political and economic analysis
• Macroeconomic indicator database
• Proprietary ratings

This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.

Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides global content with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources. Factiva provides access to global and local newspapers, magazines, industry-specific journals and newsletters, newswires, media programs, and websites. Company Research Tools Perform company screening on a collection of nearly 24,000 global companies using 26 criteria. Current quotes and market data are available. Instrument types supported include global stocks, market indices, mutual funds and corporate bonds.

Access to full-text news, business, and legal publications using a variety of flexible search options. The outstanding news coverage from over 17,000 news, business, and legal sources includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories from national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.

Nexis Uni supports campus-wide, IP-authenticated access. For personalization, students and faculty may request an ID and password to create folders, store search results, and set up email alerts for automated searches.

Passport is a powerful market research platform that provides global data and analysis on industries, markets, companies, economies and consumers. It’s an essential resource for creating projects with real-world relevance.