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Online learning resources
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning offers an on-demand library of instructional tutorials and courses covering the latest business, technology and creative skills.
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Get unlimited access to over 16,000 self-paced courses taught by industry experts.
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Take your learning to go with LinkedIn Learning apps for Apple and Android.
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Set weekly learning goals and get reminders to help prioritize your learning.
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Share new and updated skills with your network by uploading Certificates of Completion to your LinkedIn Profile.
Learn how to access LinkedIn Learning for free with your Brampton Library card.
Looking for a place to start? Explore these suggestions:
- Entrepreneurship learning pathway
- 20 questions to help you start a business
- Creating a business plan
- Finance essentials for small business
- Sales strategy: how to effectively sell your product or service
- Building a small business website with open source WordPress
- Building a small online storefront with Shopify
- Small business marketing
- Scaling your small business
Explore all LinkedIn Learning courses on small business and entrepreneurship.
Gale Courses
Gale Courses gives you access to hundreds of self-paced online courses for professional development and personal enrichment, taught by certified college instructors.
- Classes run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month
- The online classroom gives you access to all course materials. Get one-on-one help from the instructor and interact with other students through the discussion board.
- Get a certificate of completion after completing a course with a passing grade.
- Learning can happen anytime on a laptop or mobile device with internet access.
Learn how to access Gale Courses for free with your Brampton Library card.
Looking for a place to start? Explore these suggestions:
- Start your own small business course
- Creating a successful business plan
- Start a consulting practice
O’Reilly
O'Reilly Learning gives you instant and unlimited access to the latest e-books and online learning content from today’s top technology and business publishers.
- Find thousands of e-books, on-demand courses, and videos from over 200 publishers like Pearson, McGraw-Hill, MIT Sloan Management Review and more.
- Discover expert playlists to guide you through today’s emerging trends and topics.
- Access study guides and practice exams for professional certifications.
- Get practical takeaways and fresh insights from business case studies.
- Learning can happen anytime on a laptop or mobile device with internet access.
Learn how to access O’Reilly for free with your Brampton Library card.
Looking for a place to start? Explore these suggestions:
- Starting a Business All-in-One for Dummies, 3rd edition
- Practical Product Management for Product Owners: Creating Winning Products with the Professional Produce Owner Stances
- The Digital Selling Handbook: Grow Your Sales by Engaging, Prospecting, and Converting Customers the Way They Buy Today
- Epic Content Marketing, Second Edition: Break through the Clutter with a Different Story, Get the Most Out of Your Contend, and Build a Community in Web3, 2nd Edition
- Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action
- Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion of Actionable Advice from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs
Business news and research tools
PressReader
PressReader is an online resource that gives you instant and unlimited, all-you-can-read access to newspapers and magazines from around the world.
- Find publications from over 120 countries and in over 60 languages.
- Set up automatic downloads to get new issues as soon as they hit newsstands
- Auto-translate articles in up to 25 world languages
- Take your reading to go with PressReader apps for Apple and Android.
Learn how to access PressReader for free with your Brampton Library card.
Looking for a place to start? Explore the suggestions below.
Note: You will need to Sign In using your Library Card via the Library or Group option on PressReader in order to get free remote access at home or on the go.
- The Economist
- Newsweek
- Inc.
- Fast Company
- Canadian Business
- Rotman Management
- Global Leaders Today
- Handmade Seller
Gale OneFile
Gale OneFile is a research resource that offers a Google-like search experience, connecting you quickly to reliable information that you can trust.
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship will help you stay in the know with current insights, tips, strategies, and success stories from leading publications, including Canadian Manager, Harvard Business Review, Industry Week, KM World, and MIT Technology Review. For news and trends relevant to your business sector, you may be surprised to find there’s a trade journal out there just for you, with publications like Global Cosmetic Industry, Impressions (fashion industry), Tea and Coffee Trade Magazine, Prepared Foods, Special Events Magazine, Internet Business News, Modern Machine Shop, Plumbing and Mechanical, and more.
What’s more, search Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory to discover useful content for starting a business, developing strategy, marketing a product, analyzing trends, researching rates, and more.
Learn how to access Gale OneFile resources with your Brampton Library card.
Open Access Business Resources
Government of Ontario: Business, Workplace, and Economy
Government of Canada: Business and Industry
Government of Canada: Business Benefits Finder
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