Libraries mean business

There are some things you can't find on google... use your library card to access these premium business information databases from work or home. Click on a logo and enter your card number.

Save on marketing budgets, evaluate prospective customers, or research potential employers with the Kompass business-to-business database of around 200 000 UK manufacturers, distributors and service providers. Tailored searching across 25 criteria including location, activity, size, executives and financial performance provides highly targeted leads.

Research potential customers, markets or competitors quickly and easily with this archive of articles from over 50 local and national newspapers and magazines (including The Scotsman, Evening News and Financial Times). Updated daily.

The Bright Idea Handbook shows you how to turn an idea into a profitable business. The text of this book, and over 100 others including Who's who in Scotland, Whitaker's Almanack and The Which? guide to working for yourself are all available on Know UK.

This product contains the full text of over 175 titles from Oxford University Press including: Dictionary of accounting, Dictionary of business and management, Dictionary of economics, Dictionary of finance and banking, Dictionary of human resource management, Handbook of international financial terms and the Dictionary of statistics

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The Library - a place to do business

Visit Edinburgh Central Library and make use of our collection of:

• Marketing and statistical information including Keynote market research reports
• Businesss newspapers and magazines including Scottish Business Insider, The Harvard Business Review, Business Moneyfacts, Retail Week, Management Today...
• Legal information
• Scottish building regulations
• Information for investors

Free wi-fi is available and staff are always on hand to assist with your business information needs