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Downloading from online databases

Downloading information to memory stick is available for the following databases in the Business & IP Centre. Please ask at the enquiry desk and a member of the team will take a note of your details before commencing download. Please note that our suppliers restrict the use of downloaded or emailed information to personal use only, and may change or cancel these arrangements without prior notice.

British Library staff reserve the right to refuse downloading requests from more than one individual from the same organisation. All downloading is subject to licensing terms and conditions with relevant rights holders, and permitted within the British Library Reading Rooms at the discretion of British Library staff. The British Library assumes no responsibility for damage, theft, or loss of any kind to digital storage devices and their contents.

Name Downloading Agreement
Business and Industry (Gale) Email up to 25 articles per day.
Business Insights Downlaod up to 10% of 2 reports per month.
Business Source Complete (Ebsco) Email up to 25 articles per day.
COBRA
(Complete Business Reference Adviser)		 Up to 10 reports per day.
Economist Intelligent Unit - EIU.com Download up to 10 reports and up to 1,000 cells of data, from Data Tool, per week.
eMarketer Download up to 10 reports per day.
Experian B2B Researcher Download up to 10 company reports and 500 companies in list form per week.
FAME Download up to 250 companies in list form per week.
Factiva Email up to 25 articles per day.
Frost & Sullivan (Frost.com)
 Download up to five executive summaries per person per day and one full report per person per calendar month. We have a total downloading limit of 25 full reports per calendar month.
Global Market Information Database
(GMID) (Euromonitor International) 		Download up to 1,000 cells of data and up to 20 pages of text per day.
Grantfinder Download up to 10 reports per week.
ISI Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) Download up to 10 reports per day and 250 companies in list form per week.
Key Note Download up to 10% of a report from up to two reports per day. Limited to once a week from the same report.  We have a total limit of 10 downloads per day.
Onesource Download up to 500 companies in list form per week.
Orbis Download up to 250 companies in list form per week.
Ovum Enterprise IT Knowledge Centre Download up to six sub-sections from a maximum of three reports per day. Limited to once a month from the same report.
Verdict Retail and Consumer Insights Knowledge Centres Download up to 10% of three reports per day. Limited to once a month from the same report.