Publicly-traded companies are required to
submit filings, like annual reports, quarterly
reports, and prospectuses, to securities regulators
such as the Ontario Securities Commission.
Filings contain a wealth of information that
you can use for your business research assignments.
Lexis Securities Mosaic is a database that
contains full-text filings for Canadian companies
from 1997 to the present and American companies
from 1994 to the present.
To access it, go to York’s Library homepage,
type Lexis Securities Mosaic into the search
field, select ‘Title keyword search’ and
click ‘Find’. From here, click the link
to launch it. If you’re accessing the database
off-campus, it will prompt you to sign in
with your Passport York ID.
The SEC Filings search is where you would
go if you’re researching an American company
while the SEDAR filings search is where you
would look for a Canadian company.
If you click on SEDAR filings, you can type
in your keywords, the company’s name, the
document type, and the dates that you want
to search for.
The advanced search page has some other useful
categories and helpful tips – let’s go
there.
Here you’ll see the same text entry fields,
but with a few additions. If you’re not
sure what search strategies to use for this
database, view the helpful list under the
‘learn more’ link. This page shows you
how to do phrase searching and explains that
Mosaic returns variant forms of a word automatically.
For example, if you put in a word like strategy,
Mosaic will return results with strategic
and strategizing since these are variant forms
of the word, strategy.
You don’t always have to search for a specific
company. For example, you might be interested
in companies that have formed a strategic
alliance in a particular industry. So you
could search the phrase ‘Strategic alliance’
in the text search. Put double quotations
around it so the database searches for it
as an exact phrase. Then, click on ‘change’
beside all industries, add the industry you’re
interested in, and click ok.
When you click search, this generates a list
of filings for companies in the agricultural
industry where a strategic alliance was mentioned.
You can see the type of filing right under
the name of the company.
You can refine your search by using any of
the post-search filters on the left.
The last thing I want to highlight are the
available support tools. Just click on the
Support tab and select ‘Resource Center’.
There are a number of different videos, and
guides to explore!
Thanks for watching! If you need more help finding filings, check out our other resources
on BRYT’s website, click the button subscribe
to our YouTube channel, or go to the Filings
section of our Company Research Guide.
