Online Links

If you're looking for information that is freely available online, we have compiled links on various topics. The Milt Harris Library is not responsible for any content or charges affiliated with any of these sites. Some may require registration. If you need to report a broken link or have a suggestion, please contact us.

Statistics
Markets & Industries
Careers & Interview Tips
Companies, Stocks, Investing and Pensions
Country Information
Rankings
Historic Newspapers
Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias

Statistics

U.S. Census Data
Asia and Pacific Data
Bureau of Economic Analysis. U.S. Department of Commerce.
The Daily. The Daily is released Monday to Friday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, except during holidays. Statistics Canada.
Economic Research & Data. (Federal Reserve) Statistics, including historic data. Can download custom datasets for spreadsheet use.
Economic Research. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Economic data and statistics, including historic, research, working papers and articles.
European Commission Statistics
National Bureau of Economic Research . Macro, industry, international trade, demographic, patent and other U.S. data, including historic.
ODESI Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. ODESI contains over 3403 datasets, with an additional 12645 survey records available for browsing.
Statistics Canada Online Catalogue.
Statistics by Subject (Statistics Canada)
UNdata. A world of information.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
U.S. International Trade Statistics. U.S. Census Bureau.
World Bank Data Catalog

Markets & industries

Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Google Finance Track Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy.
Industry profiles, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Industries at a Glance. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Investopedia
Marketing Charts
Marketplace. American Public media.
Ontario Industrial Sectors. This page offers links to a variety of services and information related to industry. Government of Ontario
ThomasNet "find manufacturers, distributors and service providers - from Actuators to Zirconium and everything in between" for Canada and the United States.
Toronto Industry Profiles Economic Development Division of the City of Toronto

Careers and interview tips

Best employers for recent graduates
Canada's Top 100 Employers
GlassDoor.com. Position specific salary details, and reviews for more than 26,000 companies, including some in Canada. User contributed information.
Globe & Mail - Careers
mbajobs.ca - "MBAjobs.ca caters to employers who are looking for highly skilled and educated professionals who have expertise in areas such as finance, accounting, operations, project management, business development, HR, marketing, public policy management, engineering...etc."
Wall Street Journal - Careers

Companies, stocks, investing and pensions

AnnualReports.com
Barron's
Basics of Investing (Government of Canada)
Bloomberg.com
BusinessWeek. Companies.
Canada's Business Registries (In Beta- Federal Government)
Company Directories. Industry Canada.
EDGAR . SEC Filings & Forms
FT.com Marketsdata
globeinvestor.com
Google Finance Canada
Pensions & Investments. The international newspaper of money management.
SEDAR . Canadian Company Filings.

Country information

CIA World Factbook
Country Insights. Government of Canada Trade information.
Country Risk Ratings Select a country to view its business climate, credit rating, statistics and comparisons. Country reports can be downloaded.
Doing Business In (World Bank Reports)
LABORSTA Internet. Labour statistics for more than 200 countries. International Labor Office, Department of Statistics.
World Bank. Data, statistics and reports for more than 100 countries.

Canada's Top 100 Employers
Doing Business. From the World Bank, economies are ranked on their ease of doing business.
Forbes Lists. Including 400 Best Big Companies, World's 2,000 Largest Companies, World's Top 50 Microfinance Institutions.

The Globe & Mail and Financial Post have company rankings but they are now either behind a paywall or in print only.

Google News Archive. Search digitized, historic newspaper pages, including the New York Times, some dating back more than 200 years.

Business Directories. Free access to the following Gale directories: Business Plans; Encyclopedia of Business; Encyclopedia of Business and Finance; Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns; Encyclopedia of Management; Encyclopedia of Small Business; International Directory of Business Biographies; International Directory of Company Histories; and The Oxford Dictionary of Economics.
Investopedia. Database of over 7,000 terms.
Martindale's Business, Management and Economics Center. Calculators, Spreadsheets, etc.