Research guides: MGD421H5: Technology Entrepreneurship: Market Research: Article Databases

Article Databases for Market Research

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Current and archived news, business and company information worldwide.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Covers 2000+ academic and trade & industry journals. Most content is available in full-text.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Business This link opens in a new window
Another database on the ProQuest platform, CBCA Business contains articles from Canadian business periodicals, trade & industry journals, and other publications. A good option if your research is focused on the Canadian market or Canadian companies.
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
A database on the ProQuest platform that covers national, regional and local Canadian news media.

A good choice if you are targeting small, private companies who may receive coverage by community-based media or companies who are significant employers in a city, town or region.

ABI/Inform Collection
A collection of three databases available on the ProQuest platform: ABI/Inform Global which covers academic journals, ABI/Inform Dateline which focuses on regional or local business media (mostly US), and ABI/Inform Trade & Industry, which covers trade & industry journals.

Use the pull-down menu to select fields such as Abstract or Company/Organization to search in. Most but not all articles will be available in full-text.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Another source for news and professional journal content.

ICT Article Databases

These UTL databases offer good coverage of ICT topics, including computing and computer science, electronics, electrical engineering, wireless and network communications, database design and more.

While most of the content will be academic in nature, they might contain articles that are more market-facing or that discuss commercialization and industry trends.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Citations, summaries, reviews, and full-text articles about information technology.
IEEE Xplore / IET Electronic Library (IEL) This link opens in a new window
Journals, conference papers, technical standards, books, and educational courses in the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

Engineering Village (Ei)
Search interface for Compendex and Inspec, key citations and abstracts databases for engineering and technology.
Other UTL ICT Databases
Use this link to explore other databases available at UTL that could be used to source other ICT articles.