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Red Deer Polytechnic Library recognizes that our catalogue and resource descriptions contain language that reflects the biases, norms, and perspectives of the time in which they were created. In particular, for resources about persons and groups, this language is often outdated and harmful. These descriptions also incorporate controlled vocabularies, such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings, which include some headings (e.g., Indians of North America), that are offensive or inappropriate. We use international standards for description, but support and actively participate in efforts to update and change these practices as we strive for descriptions that are inclusive, respectful, and do not cause harm. We acknowledge the critical importance of community consultation in these efforts, and as residents on Treaty 7 and Treaty 6 territories and Métis Region 3 we commit to working together with our local communities to make these changes.
Key Business Resources
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text for a large collection of business journals and peer-reviewed publications as well as SWOT analyses, market research reports, and industry profiles.
- Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
In-depth coverage of businesses including company and industry profiles, products, brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories, and articles.
- Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including creating a business plan, financing, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more.
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed Canadian and United States industry research reports, including information on major industries, trends and statistics, demographic and market data, and performance forecasting.
- Statista This link opens in a new window
This data and business intelligence platform contains statistics, reports, and insights on 80,000+ topics for 170 industries.
- ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
International coverage of companies and business trends. Includes journals, periodicals, dissertations, working papers, reports, and downloadable data.
- inFact All-Access This link opens in a new window
Research on economic trends and forecasts, human resources, organizational performance, and public policy, with a Canadian focus.
- ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new windowThis database has a large subset of journals on Business, Management, Accounting, Economics & Finance.
- The Globe and MailMajor Canadian newspaper with a large and detailed Business section.
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database indexes and provides full-text access to major Canadian newspapers. Graphical material (illustrations, photographs, etc.) is excluded.
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA Complete) This link opens in a new window
Full-text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets: Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowSee for articles on business-related topics such as
organizational behaviour. - SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowSee for articles on business-related topics such as consumer behaviour.
- Films on Demand: Business & Economics This link opens in a new window
This collection contains instructional and educational streaming videos in a wide range of business and economics areas. Includes performance rights for classroom use.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Access 9,795 full-text journals and magazines in every academic discipline.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar searches for academic literature, and is especially useful for tracking down articles from citations. On-campus, articles available through RDP Library will show a Request this item @ RDP link. Off-campus, set this functionality by going to Scholar's Settings --> Library Links and searching for Red Deer Polytechnic.
- Annals in Social ResponsibilityFocuses on a range of topics from work in primary disciplines – accounting, economics & finance, management, operations & marketing, sociology, psychology, philosophy, law – that pertain to the social impact of the actions of individuals and organizations.
- Competitiveness ReviewPublishes academic research and conceptual policy dialogue on the competitiveness of locations at all stages of economic development.
- Journal of Business StrategyPublishes articles with a practical focus designed to help readers develop successful business strategies.
- Journal of Service ManagementFocuses on service management research publishing papers showing a unique and significant contribution to service literature while providing a resource for those working across the full spectrum of service management field irrespective of discipline.
- Journal of Small Business and Enterprise DevelopmentAdvances theory, practice, and policy by publishing scholarly contributions in the area of entrepreneurship.
- Strategy & LeadershipStrategy & Leadership articles insightfully define a strategic management or leadership problem, dilemma or opportunity from a leader’s perspective and propose a creative solution to the problem or take advantage of the opportunity.
- Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including creating a business plan, financing, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more.
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed Canadian and United States industry research reports, including information on major industries, trends and statistics, demographic and market data, and performance forecasting.
- inFact All-Access This link opens in a new window
Research on economic trends and forecasts, human resources, organizational performance, and public policy, with a Canadian focus.
- Statista This link opens in a new window
This data and business intelligence platform contains statistics, reports, and insights on 80,000+ topics for 170 industries.
- Household Spending in CanadaDetailed information on household expenditures, income, and demographics, by province and territory.
- Canadian Industry Statistics (Government of Canada)"Industry trends and financial information, such as GDP, Labour Productivity, Manufacturing and Trade data."
- Financial Performance Data (SME Benchmarking)"Provides access to more than 1000 industries across Canada, including more than 30 performance benchmarks to help small businesses determine how they measure up to their competitors."
- Alberta Regional Dashboard"Helps answer your questions about living, working, investing and doing business in Alberta’s diverse regions." Includes demographic and economic indicators.
- Census & Demographics by Community or ProvinceDetailed demographic information from the 2021 Census.
- Innovation, Science, and Economic Development CanadaFind programs and services provided by the federal government. Search for information by industrial sector and for resources for both businesses and consumers.
Writing a Business Plan: A Practical GuideCall Number: HD 30.28 E383 2017 (in Main collection, second floor)"Provides a concise guide for producing the optimal business plan."
The Business Plan Workbook: The Definitive Guide to Researching, Writing up and Presenting a Winning Plan"The essential guide to all aspects of business planning for entrepreneurs, senior executives and students alike."
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed Canadian and United States industry research reports, including information on major industries, trends and statistics, demographic and market data, and performance forecasting.
- Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
In-depth coverage of businesses including company and industry profiles, products, brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories, and articles.
- ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
International coverage of companies and business trends. Includes journals, periodicals, dissertations, working papers, reports, and downloadable data.
- Statista This link opens in a new window
This data and business intelligence platform contains statistics, reports, and insights on 80,000+ topics for 170 industries.
- inFact All-Access This link opens in a new window
Research on economic trends and forecasts, human resources, organizational performance, and public policy, with a Canadian focus.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text for a large collection of business journals and peer-reviewed publications as well as SWOT analyses, market research reports, and industry profiles.
- globalEDGE - Get Insights by Industry"Your source for international business-related resources, statistics, risk assessments, and events for 20 distinct industry sectors. You will find a wealth of information for each industry."
- CrunchbaseBusiness statistics and information about public and private companies; especially good for free tidbits about tech startups.
- SEDAR+"SEDAR+ is the new, secure web-based system used by all market participants to file, disclose and search for information in Canada’s capital markets." Provides access to most public securities documents and information filed by public companies and investment funds with the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA).
- EDGAR Company FilingsThe USA equivalent of SEDAR.
- inFact All-Access This link opens in a new window
Research on economic trends and forecasts, human resources, organizational performance, and public policy, with a Canadian focus.
- Invest AlbertaInformation on select key industries from the Invest Alberta Corporation.
- ALIS (Alberta Learning Information Service) - Labour Market InformationLearn about the characteristics, prospects, and education needed for over 500 occupations.
- Alberta IndustryInformation about: "Agriculture, forestry, tourism and other key sectors for business, trade, economic development and government contracting."
- Alberta Labour Force Statistics and Annual Reviews"Information on regional labour market changes and unemployment rates."
- Alberta Labour Market Information"Wage and salary information and job market forecasts, trends, statistics and profiles."
- Alberta Labour Market HighlightsAnalysis of Alberta’s labour market conditions, future outlook, and comparisons to other provinces and with Canada overall.
- Alberta Regional Dashboard"Helps answer your questions about living, working, investing and doing business in Alberta’s diverse regions." Includes demographic and economic indicators.
- Central Alberta Economic Partnership - Data CentreDifferent categories of data on Central Alberta's various communities (e.g., industries, real estate)
- Alberta Small Business Resources: Starting a BusinessResources from the Government of Alberta
Human Resource Management: Optimizing Organizational Performance"Human resources, recruiting, strategic planning, mentoring, benefits and compensation, terminating employees, unions and more."
An Introduction to Human Resource Management"Comprehensive and wide-ranging . . . deals with all major aspects of HRM in a down to earth and practical way, alongside the necessary theoretical underpinning."
Leadership-Driven HR"Challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate assets people and organizational processes."
Human resources management in CanadaCall Number: HF 5549 D49 2011 (Main collection, Floor 2)An "engaging introduction to the essential concepts and techniques of human resources management."
- Free Management Library"Provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself,
other individuals, groups and organizations (whether the organization is for-profit
or nonprofit)."
- World Trade Organization: Key PublicationsIn particular, World Trade Statistical Review 2019, Trade Profiles 2019, World Trade Reports.
- World Trade Organization: MembersSearch by member "to see key information on trade statistics, WTO commitments, disputes, trade policy reviews, and notifications."
- globalEDGE Insights ResearchExcellent website for information about 202 countries and 21 major trading blocs.
- NationMaster"Find market sizing and trends on any sector, in any country," as well as general country information.
- Country Commercial GuidesFrom the US Government. "Market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs prepared at US Embassies worldwide."
- Trade & Investment Agreements: Government of CanadaIncludes information on free trade, plurilateral and WTO agreements, and the new USMCA.
- European Commission: Trade StatisticsEU trade statistics, between various regions and countries.
- Trade Map"Indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets and competitive markets, as well as a directory of importing and exporting companies." Watching the help videos recommended.
- United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)Information on and a link to the new agreement, from the Government of Canada.
- APA 7th Edition Business Citations (PDF)Guide to citing business databases from McGill Library.
- APA for Business SourcesFrom the Academic Business Librarians of BC.
- APA Style Guide for Business Sources (PDF)A 12-page printable guide, from BCIT Library.
- Tables & Figures - APA StyleGuidance from the publishers of the APA Citation Style manual.
Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal CitationCall Number: KF 259 C212 2023 (Main collection, second floor & Reserve Desk, main floor)"This edition offers guidance for legal sources that have previously gone unrecognized such as Islamic law, physical objects, and personal communications. ...and has added sections on emerging technologies, such as Blockchain, and has expanded the sections on online legal research services."
Indigenous Resources
- Indigenous Resources GuideThis guide will help you find information relevant to Indigenous topics in Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Métis ancestral lands.
Find Streaming Videos
- Academic Video Online
This video collection of documentaries, films, demonstrations and more, spans subject areas like anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, etc.
- Criterion-On-Demand This link opens in a new window
Access to educationally relevant feature films, including classics, documentaries, animated titles, independent films, and foreign films.
- Curio This link opens in a new window
This streaming video collection features programs and teacher resource guides supporting K-12 and post-secondary courses. Includes News in Review, a current-events series. Contains English and French primary sources.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Instructional and educational streaming videos in a wide range of subject areas. Includes performance rights for classroom use.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window
A film collection which includes documentaries, indie and foreign films, classics, and blockbuster movies. A small selection has been purchased for use by RDP students, faculty, and staff. Faculty can request films by contacting their Subject Librarian.
- National Film Board of Canada This link opens in a new window
This collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, and alternative dramas. Public performance rights for classroom use included.
- Videatives Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
This streaming video collection includes text and video clips demonstrating children in action by capturing the details of what children know and how teachers can build from children's knowledge.
- A-Z List of Streaming Video CollectionsAccess to all RDP Library Streaming Video Collections (including Curio.ca, Films on Demand, NFB, Kanopy, Videatives)
Find Databases & Journals by Title
- A-Z List of DatabasesA complete listing of databases, electronic resources, and streaming video collections licensed for use by Red Deer Polytechnic students, faculty, and staff.
- Find a Journal by TitleFind out if the Library has access to a specific journal.
Interlibrary Loans & Other Libraries
RDP Library can bring in items from libraries across North America for you.
- Interlibrary Loan RequestsRequest articles, books, and other items not owned by RDP Library.
- Red Deer Public LibraryStudents, use your iCard at Red Deer Public Library (RDPL).
Off-Campus Access
Use your RDP email and password to access databases and e-resources off-campus. Learn about your RDP email and password.
Note that your RDP email requires multi-factor authentication (MFA). Learn about MFA.
