Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Reference™ provides in-depth access to a wide diversity of Canadian periodicals, ranging from academic titles to special interest publications to general magazines. The academic titles include the most prominent journals from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Other magazines focus on opinion, public policy, children/youth, lifestyles, arts and culture, health, regional concerns, etc. 

In-depth and Detailed Focus on Canada
CBCA on ProQuest^® creates synergy between ProQuest and ProQuest electronic database products while taking advantage of the functionality of the ProQuest Web interface. Clients are able to cross-database search CBCA Reference with Canadian Newsstand™ (a very powerful combination for the retrieval of Canadian information), or search CBCA with any of the ProQuest databases (e.g. ABI/INFORM^®, ProQuest Newsstand™ or ProQuest Research Library™), dependant on their research topic.

Search Features & Functionality

• Past and current content—CBCA is updated daily with full-text content (1988 to present) and bibliographic content (1972 to present). Fully searchable abstracts are available for all full-text articles.
• Seamless cross-database searching—Allows users to retrieve Canadian information across all ProQuest databases, including Canadian Newsstand.
• Subject vocabulary has been standardized with ABI/INFORM^®—To facilitate cross-database searching, core Canadian subject headings have been expanded upon and CBCA data has been reprocessed so that subject terms, article types, and geographic terms have as much consistency as is possible across the entire backfile.
• OpenURL linking—Users can access articles or publications from other electronic resources.
• Greater Searching Control—“Refine-as-you go” searching, “More Like This,” and Alerts means researchers can find exactly what they’re looking for.