Quick links to popular databases

Select an eResource from the drop down list below. All databases in this list have been licensed to the University of Toronto for student and faculty use. These electronic resources can also be accessed from anywhere off campus, using your TCard. Note: links will open in new window.

Select a database Bankscope Business Insights Business Source Premier (EBSCO) Canadian Social Investment Database (Jantzi) CICA Handbook CHASS Data Centre EIU Reports Emerging Market Information Service FP Advisor Factiva Global Market Information Investext JSTOR MarketResearch.com Academic Mergent Online Osiris ProQuest SourceOECD Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage The Vault

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e-Resources available only in the BIC

The BIC also provides access to specific licensed e-Resources that are not networked, and which must be accessed via the workstations at the BIC. Additional electronic resources are available to U of T students, staff and faculty in the Finance Lab

New books in the BIC

View all books added to the BIC collection this week , or to subscribe to an RSS feed of new titles in the BIC collection.

New titles include:

Becoming the evidence-based manager : how to put the science of management to work for you Latham, Gary P. Davies-Black Pub., 2008.
Chasing the rabbit : how market leaders outdistance the competition and how great companies can catch up and win Spear, Steven J. McGraw-Hill, 2009.
Change by design : how design thinking can transform organizations and inspire innovation Brown, Tim, Harper Collins Publishers, 2009.

Database in focus

Osiris

A database of listed companies, OSIRIS contains information on over 57,000 companies from around the globe (see breakdown below). Includes listed, delisted and bankrupt companies. Detailed ownership information provided.

• North America 14,522
• Europe (Excl. Eastern Europe) 11,875
• Eastern Europe 1,155
• Middle East 1,229
• Far East & Central Asia 17,661
• Oceania 2,642
• South & Central America 4,562
• Africa 1,791

Osiris User Guide (PDF will open in new window).

[Database in focus - archive]

Recent video program of interest

"THE WARNING. In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regulator warned about derivatives' dangers - and overnight became the enemy of some of the most powerful people in Washington."

PBS. Frontline, October 20, 2009. Watch the full program online, or read analysis and interviews.

[Articles/videos of interest archive]

BIC tip

If your Google search results include PDFs, you can now click on the "Quick View" button to quickly view the PDF in your browser - it's no longer necessary for you to download the PDF. Look for the Quick View button on the second line of the Google result. (Note: not all PDFs have the Quick View option yet.)

[BIC tips archive]

New Rotman Working Papers

Hope, Ole-Kristian, Thomas, Wayne B. and Vyas, Dushyantkumar, The Cost of Pride: Why Do Firms from Developing Countries Bid Higher? (September 2009).

Singh, Jasjit and Agrawal, Ajay, Recruiting for Ideas: A Difference-in-Differences Approach for Estimating the Effect of Mobility on Access to an Inventor's Prior Knowledge (August 2009).

De Franco, Gus and Hope, Ole-Kristian, Do Analysts' Notes Provide New Information? (August 2009).

..more Rotman Working Papers