Government Relations: Databases

(ProQuest) Part of ProQuest Central. Comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

(EBSCO) Provides access to one of the industry's most used business research databases of magazines, journals, newspapers, reports, profiles, case studies, books and trade publications.

(Grey House) Online access to 20 Grey House Reference titles: Canadian Almanac and Directory, Associations Canada, Financial Services Canada, Canadian Environmental Resource Guide, Canadian Parliamentary Guide, Governments Canada, Libraries Canada, Health Guide Canada, History of Canada, Canadian Who's Who, Major Canadian Cities, Careers & Employment Canada, Cannabis Canada, and various FP financial titles.

(Gale) Provides access to Canadian content including biographies, news, essays and podcasts.

(ProQuest) Part of ProQuest Central. Provides access to a broad range of Canadian magazines, newspapers, and journals.

(ProQuest) Part of ProQuest Central. Canadian Newsstream provides access to more than 190 full-text Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. This full-text database includes electronic compilations from most newspapers, providing access to articles, columns, editorials, and special publications from each. Some compilations date from the late 70s.

(EBSCO) Provides access to essays with differing points of view on current issues. Essays include an overview, arguments, counter arguments and a guide to Critical Thinking.

(EBSCO) Provides access to research in areas related to communication and mass media. Many journals have indexing, abstracts, and full-text from their first issues to the present.

(Gale) Provides access to research in areas related to communications and mass media.

(Canadian Electronic Library / Gibson) Canadian e-books, government documents, and grey literature, primarily on health, government, and public policy from Gibson's Canadian Public Documents Collection (including the Canadian Public Policy Collection (CPPC) and the Canadian Health Research Collection (CHRC)).
NOTE: This platform will no longer be available after June 1, 2022. The vendor has ceased operation and the content is now being handled by Canada Commons from Coherent Digital and the Trojman Corporation.

(Various) Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.

(Gale) A database of over 2500 full-text newspapers, newswire services, and news program transcripts from Canada, U.S. and abroad.

(GlobalData) Provides access to a comprehensive collection of business information on over 200 countries and 3500 industries. It contains in-depth information on over 30000 public and private companies, market data for consumer products, and news feeds.

(Sources) This online resource gives instant access to up-to-date contact information for print and broadcast media outlets across Canada, searchable by media type, subject, geography, language, ownership, and spokesperson expertise.
Our licence is for 50 concurrent users only.

(LexisNexis) A large multi-tiered database of thousands of sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.

(OurDigitalWorld) Provides access to thousands of government documents from the collection of the Ontario Legislative Library. Allows simple searching, or browsing by titles, by ministry/agency, authors, subjects, or years. Note this collection does not contain all Ontario government documents. Documents have been taken from publicly accessible government websites and may have been reformatted from their original format for archiving purposes.

(Various) Advanced research and scholarship. Free to find, free to use. Records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

(Euromonitor International) Provides access to global market analysis with comprehensive coverage of industries, countries and consumer trends.

(Toronto Star Newspapers) A news service monitoring political activity at Queen's Park and throughout the province of Ontario.

(Scott's Directories) Provides access to a comprehensive directory of Canadian businesses with more than 350,000+ contacts from manufacturing, government, medical and education sectors.
All saved searches, downloads, and pick lists will be visible to all Seneca users.

(World Advertising Research Center) Over 25 000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries covering all areas of marketing communications (advertising, consumer research, brand management, product categories, media planning, etc.).
Individual user login functionality and resulting customization ("YOUR WARC") is not available with our account.