For international due diligence and investigative research, I’ve found Investigative Dashboard to be a wonderful resource: Investigative Dashboard (ID) has been developed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the world’s leading cross border investigative reporting organization. OCCRP designed Investigative Dashboard as a transnational collaborative effort to help journalists and Read More
Newspaper Databases: All That’s Not Fit for Research
They say newspapers are the first draft of history. They capture and disseminate noteworthy events as they unfold, and they are used by succeeding generations to make sense of a nation’s history and identity. Although this chronicling is increasingly occurring with dizzying speed on the web, newspapers, especially the paper editions captured Read More
The Periodic Table of Business Research Databases
I just came across a terrifically handy tool from Alacra called the Periodic Table of Business Research Databases for identifying the right database for business-related research. There are a vast number of databases available on the market, each with its own focus and content depth. This tool provides a nice, Read More
Full Digitized Federal Hansard Now Available
Terrific news about the Canadian federal Hansard: the full Historical Debates of the Parliament of Canada are now available at Canadiana.org’s portal. The searchable database includes all debates from Parliament 1, Session 1 (1867) until coverage on the parliamentary website begins (February 27, 1996, for the Senate, and January 17, 1994, Read More
New Online Case Law Additions in Canada and the U.S.
The trend toward providing more free online access to court opinions got a massive boost recently in both Canada and the U.S. In Canada, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the copyright holder of the Ontario Reports, made available to CanLII the full historical collection of OR case reports (15,000 decisions published Read More
New Resource for Finding Theses and Dissertations
Open Access Theses and Dissertations is a new search engine for locating open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. It’s important to note that the search engine does not search the full-text of the theses, but rather the metadata drawn from the records of university repositories, consortia, or Read More