Business

• There are specially selected web sites on many business subjects at Gateway to the Internet > Business and there are sites on related subjects at Gateway sections such as Companies, Law and Statistics and prices
• The library service subscribes on your behalf to MarketLine business information centre, a vast online resource giving you detailed information on 10,000 companies, 2000 industries and 50 countries
• For local business information, see You and Your Community (YoYo)
• The reference books online collections include books on business topics:

Credo Reference 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 language 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, including the 'Financial times', from July 1985 onwards; for historical information there is also the 'Times digital archive' covering 1785-1985
• At Magazines and journals online the range of titles includes the business magazines 'Caterer and hotelkeeper', 'Management today', 'Marketing', 'Money management', UK retail briefing' and 'UK retail report
• The main collection of business directories and other books is at Bedford Central Library with smaller collections at Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard libraries
• All three libraries have the latest edition of the well-known Kompass United Kingdom Register, a three-volume set which gives detailed information on products and services, company information and industrial trade names

Further information

• Search for books on specific business topics at the library catalogue
• If you need help to find information, contact us

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See also....

British Standards

Companies and other businesses