Research Guides: ENTR 3P98: Family Business: Business News Sources

Find News & Articles About Your Family Business

You can find in-depth information on your company, or on key family members, as reported in secondary sources such as newspaper or magazine articles and TV or radio transcripts by searching in the Library's Business or News Databases.
Try searching for your company or family name along with keywords such as: "death OR marriage OR children OR divorce OR conflict" to identify articles that might disclose personal details about the family.
In order to answer some of the other questions for your assignment, try a variety of search strategies that employ the keywords you need to find: Bombardier AND (innovation OR leadership OR social responsibility).

CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) This link opens in a new window InterdisciplinaryFind scholarly journal articles, magazines and newspapers published in CanadaCoverage: 1988-current ; full text articles available from 1995 to the present.Permitted Uses
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database This link opens in a new window InterdisciplinaryFind scholarly journal articles, magazines and newspapers published in CanadaPermitted Uses
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window Use to find articles in the major Canadian daily newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, the National Post, as well as major city papers such as the Toronto Star.

ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window Find scholarly journals, books, trade publications, dissertations, working papers, company, industry and market research reports, newspapers, business cases, ebooks, streaming video, and other sources relevant to research in business and economics.Includes the ABI/Inform Collection, J. P. Morgan Research, the Entrepreneurship Database, the Business Video Database, the Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection, the Asian & European Business Collection, and the Business Market Research Collection. More Information.Permitted Uses
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window All disciplines of businessFind scholarly business journals, trade journals and business magazinesIncludes company profiles, industry reports, market research reports, country economic reportsPermitted Uses
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window InterdisciplinaryFind mainly English-language peer-reviewed full-text scholarly articles, NPR, CNN and CBC podcasts, news, images, videos, audio files and links.Permitted Uses

America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window Scholarly literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the presentCoverage:1955-presentPermitted Uses
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Historical Abstracts with Full Text covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. This database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. With over 800,000 records and access to the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books, Historical Abstracts with Full Text is a great resource for historical and related social science literature.Permitted Uses

Access World News This link opens in a new window An extensive collection of local, regional and national newspapers from countries all over the world. Includes all major local Niagara papers.Permitted Uses
Factiva This link opens in a new window A current international news database from Dow Jones which provides access to premium content from 200 countries, in 28 languages.Users have access to a wide range of information from newspapers, newswires, industry publications, websites, company reports, and more.Permitted Uses
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Use to find articles in newspapers, newswires, or magazines from Canada and around the world. Also includes TV and radio transcripts from the major networks in the US (ABC, CNBC, CNN) and many international sources.
Omni This link opens in a new window Brock's largest Interdisciplinary search toolMillions of journal articles, books & ebooks, newspapers, videos, magazines and more!
Omni Newspaper Search This link opens in a new window Search current and historical newspaper coverage.

You may need to extend your research to go beyond the usual list of business and news databases, so here are some additional sources that may provide useful information on your famous family.
Google offers some very specialized search engines that will search for specific types of sources: news, images, videos, books, scholarly sources, etc.