Business & IP resources

Access from outside the Library is not available owing to licensing restrictions. Except where indicated, titles are available in all the Library's London Reading Rooms. Staff in the Business & IP Centre will help you make the best use of these resources.

Please note that the Library subscribes to many electronic resources, both databases and ejournals.

Alphabetical and subject lists of all databases.
Find e-journals - use this to find specific journals.

Downloading information to memory stick is available from some of the 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. Some of the news databases allow direct emailing of articles.
Please note that the service is delivered with the the following conditions:

All downloading is subject to licensing terms and conditions with relevant rights holders. Many of our suppliers limit the number of downloads and all restrict the use of downloaded or emailed information to personal use only, and may change or cancel these arrangements without prior notice. Library staff are obliged to ensure compliance with these terms and have the right to refuse downloading requests.
The downloading service is subject to the availability of staff and may be withdrawn or reduced during busy periods or at times, such as evenings, when fewer staff are available.
Readers must supply their own memory stick which will be subject to a virus scan prior to any downloading taking place. The British Library assumes no responsibility for damage, theft, or loss of any kind to digital storage devices and their contents.

Advice & Funding Sources | Market Research | Company Data | Business News & Journals
Business & Economic Statistics | Intellectual Property Sources

Advice & Funding Sources	Help
COBRA (Complete Business Reference Adviser) An encyclopaedia of practical information for starting, running and managing a small business. Includes over 4,000 fact sheets, local area profiles. Download up to 10 reports a day	Database Summary (PDF)
Grantnet & Grantfinder - See reference desk for access 4,000 grants, loans and awards. Grantnet, accessible from outside the Centre, gives brief information. To access detailed information from Grantfinder, please ask at the reference desk. Download up to 10 reports per week	Database Summary (PDF) Help Sheet (PDF)

Market Research	Help
Datamonitor Consumer - See reference desk for access Analysis of the global Fast Moving Consumer Goods market. Covers food and drink, cosmetics and toiletries and household products. Includes Product Launch and Market Data Analytics tools. 10% of three reports per day, limited to once a month from the same report. (From Datamonitor Consumer or Verdict Retail).
eMarketer International market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies. Download up to 10 reports per day.	Database Summary (PDF)
Frost & Sullivan - See reference desk for access In-depth global market research and strategy reports covering medical technology, chemicals and plastics, automation, electronics, energy systems, environmental and building technologies and IT. Download up to 5 executive summaries and 1 full report per person per calendar month. We have a total downloading limit of 25 full reports per calendar month.	Database Summary (PDF)
Key Note Full text access to more than 1,000 reports covering 30 industry sectors including everything from IT and computing to food and drink. Download up to 10% of a report from up to 2 reports per day. Limited to once a week from the same report. We have a total limit of 10 downloads per day.	Database Summary (PDF) Help Sheet (PDF)
Mintel Full-text access to Mintel's Horizons UK series which covers an extensive range of consumer and lifestyle markets in the United Kingdom. Printing or downloading is not permitted from this database.	Database Summary (PDF)
Ovum Enterprise IT Knowledge Centre In-depth ICT analysis comprising Ovum, Butler Group and Datamonitor Technology research. Covers IT services, software and enterprise IT management. NB: Ask at the Business Information Reference Enquiry desk for login details. Download up to 10% from a maximum of 3 reports per day. Limited to once a month from the same report.	Database Summary (PDF) Help Sheet (PDF)
Passport (Euromonitor International) Provides comparable international market intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. Contains over 4,500 global, country, industry and company reports. Download up to 1,000 cells of data and up to 20 pages of text per day.	Database Summary (PDF)
Verdict Retail - See reference desk for access Independent analysis of the UK and European retail industry. Sectors covered include clothing and footwear, food and drink, DIY, electricals, homewares and personal care. 10% of three reports per day, limited to once a month from the same report. (From Datamonitor Consumer or Verdict Retail).	Database Summary (PDF) Help SHeet (PDF)

Company Data	Help
Experian B2B Researcher - See reference desk for access Experian contains detailed information for 2.8 million registered UK and Irish businesses with their branches and 1.6 million ‘non-corporate’ entities like sole traders. Among the 5 million contact names are Marketing Managers and Directors. Download up to ten company or peer reports per week and up to 500 companies in list form per week.
FAME FAME is a UK & Irish company database listing 7 million companies with access to information such as accounts and director details. Searches can be made by industry, location or financial information. Download up to 500 companies in list form per week.
ISI Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) Company, Industry and Economic information focusing on Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Latin America. Includes company reports and financial statements. Download up to 10 reports per day and 250 companies in list from per week.	Database Summary (PDF)
Kompass Worldwide Detailed product and service listings for over 2.8 million companies across 70 countries. Key source for manufacturers and suppliers with over 300,000 topics covered.	Database Summary (PDF)
Onesource - See reference desk for access Company profiles for over 30 million private and public companies worldwide including information on over 35 million company executives and news analysis from 2,500 sources. Download up to 500 companies in list from per week.	Database Summary (PDF)
ORBIS Orbis is a global company database listing over 75 million companies around the world providing access to contacts, accounts and corporate structure information. Download up to 500 companies in list form per week.

Business News & Journals	Help
ABI Inform Global Contains 2,700 academic journals, newspapers, business, management and economics publications. The database can be searched individually, below, or cross searched with other Proquest databases.	Database Summary (PDF)
Business & Industry (Gale) Full text or abstracts from 1,000 leading trade and business publications from over 30 countries. Email up to 25 articles per day	Database Summary (PDF) Help Sheet (PDF)
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) Full text from 11,000 sources, including over 1000 international top ranking business journals. Provides information on most areas of business, as well as country economic reports. Email up to 25 articles per day	Database Summary (PDF)
Factiva More than 10,000 publications from 159 countries in 22 languages, providing the latest news and information from many industries and regions. Includes newswires and BBC Monitoring.	Database Summary (PDF) Help Sheet (PDF)

Business & Economic Statistics	Help
CountryData (Economist Intelligence Unit) - See reference desk for access Analytical database of world-wide macroeconomic indicators and forecast values for 117 countries and 40 regional aggregates, with up to 280 economic indicators per country.	Database Summary (PDF)
Economist Intelligence Unit - EIU.com Includes 60 Country Reports, Country Profiles, and Viewswire (information on important economic, political, business and market developments including analytical briefings). Download up to 10 reports and up to 1,000 cells of data, from Data Tool, per week.	Database Summary

Business & Economic Statistics

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CountryData (Economist Intelligence Unit) - See reference desk for access
Analytical database of world-wide macroeconomic indicators and forecast values for 117 countries and 40 regional aggregates, with up to 280 economic indicators per country.

Database Summary (PDF)

Economist Intelligence Unit - EIU.com
Includes 60 Country Reports, Country Profiles, and Viewswire (information on important economic, political, business and market developments including analytical briefings).

Download up to 10 reports and up to 1,000 cells of data, from Data Tool, per week.

Database Summary

Intellectual Property Sources	Help
Derwent Innovations Index Provides international patent abstracts written by professionals. Includes facilities for searching by 'owning company', forward and backward citation and some status information.	Database Summary (PDF) Help Sheet (PDF)
Espacenet The European Patent Office website. Allowing patents to be searched Internationally. Many complete specifications are available. The coverage varies by country. This site is freely available on the Internet.	Database Summary (PDF) Help Sheet (PDF)
Intellectual Property Office The official government body responsible for Intellectual Property (IP) rights in the United Kingdom. Site provided access to UK national patent, trade mark and registered design information. Also application forms, fee information and general information relating to IP. This site is freely available on the Internet.
OHIM Registered Community Design search database The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) is the official registration office of the European Union responsible for the registration of Community design (RCD) applications. This is the OHIM Registered Community Design search database. This site is freely available on the Internet.
OHIM Community Trade mark search database The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) is the official registration office of the European Union responsible for the registration of Community trade mark (CTM) applications. This is the OHIM Community Trade mark search database. This site is freely available on the Internet.
USPTO Patent Full-Text Databases The website of the US Patent and Trademark Office. For searching US national utility patents and design patents. Links through to the US trademark electronic search service database (TESS). This site is freely available on the Internet.
Patent scope A World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) database which allows access to millions of patent documents namely International Patent Applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) plus regional and national patent collections from 25 participating countries. This site is freely available on the Internet.