Business

• For local business information and council support, see the Central Bedfordshire Council - Business and Bedford Borough - Business
• Search for more local services and support groups at the Virtual Library's Local Information Database
• The main government web site for businesses and starting-up businesses is Business Link. It gives you a huge amount of information online
• There are specially selected, web sites at WebLinks > Business and at related WebLinks subject sections such as Companies, Law and Statistics and prices
• Find online reference books on business topics at Credo Reference. It includes a 'Business' section  giving you many business encyclopaedias and dictionaries, covering management, accounting, e-business, economics, finance, personnel management and more. There is also a 'Bilinguals' section which includes specialised French, German and Spanish business dictionaries among the many other general bilingual dictionaries
• There are yet more business and management dictionaries in the Oxford Reference Online service
• At Newspapers online you can find articles from daily and Sunday newspapers and for historical information there is also the 'Times digital archive' covering 1785-1985
• The latest edition of the Kompass United Kingdom Register is at Bedford Central Library, Dunstable Library and Leighton Buzzard Library. The three-volume set of directories gives detailed information on products and services, company information and industrial trade names

Further information

• Library catalogue
• Contact us - for help to find information, from your local librarians
• 'Enquire' - a 24-hour chat enquiry service from the national People's Network. Local librarians take part in 'Enquire' on a rota basis but it is likely that you would be answered by a librarian from another library service

Library contact details and opening times

See also....

British Standards

Companies and other businesses