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  1. Cambridge Books Online

    Description: Over 2,000 e-books from Cambridge University Press, including more than 100 open access books.

    Coverage: 2005, 2006, 2012, 2013 and open access

    Publisher: Cambridge University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, E-books, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  2. Cambridge Journals Online

    Description: Hundreds of peer-reviewed journals from Cambridge University Press. Subjects include humanities, life sciences, mathematics, science, engineering medicine, social sciences, humanities and law.

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  3. COBRA : the Complete Business Reference Adviser

    Description: Useful for new and existing business owners, this service includes business start-up guides, regulatory factsheets, industry reports and updates. Also contains information helpful for preparing marketing or business plans.

    Publisher: Cobweb

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  4. Credo Reference

    Description: A full-text collection of over 600 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers, with over 4 million entries and 1 million images. Titles range from art, language, business, and history, to geography, music, literature, science and religion, and biography.

    Publisher: CredoReference Inc

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Reference Works, Science, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  5. D&B Hoovers

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'OneSource Global Business Browser'

    Description: A business information database which provides in depth profiles of companies worldwide, industry profiles, news and market research.

    Publisher: Dun & Bradstreet

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  6. Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2014

    Description: Every issue of The Economist magazine from 1843 to 2014.

    Coverage: 1843 to 2014

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Newspapers, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  7. Factiva

    Description: A news and business search service covering over 14,000 leading newspaper titles, news sources and company information from around the world. Click on publisher link below to view a list of the sources covered (you may need to save the document first).
    Maximum of 3 concurrent users. Please try again later if you cannot access the resource.
    Note: If using Chrome you may experience intermittent problems when accessing the resource outside our George IV Bridge building and Kelvin Hall.

    Coverage: 1997 onwards

    Publisher: Proquest-Dow Jones

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Newspapers

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  8. FAME

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Financial Analysis Made Easy'

    Description: A business database with information on over 11 million UK and Irish companies, which enables research on individual companies, searches for companies with specific profiles, and detailed analysis

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  9. Frost & Sullivan

    Description: A business resource providing detailed industry analysis on chemical, energy, environmental and building technologies, healthcare, IT and manufacturing markets worldwide.

    **New platform**
    Publications now open in a new tab or window.
    Please note it is only possible to download up to 10% of a report's content.

    Publisher: Frost & Sullivan

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  10. Gale Business: Insights

    Description: Explore the world's companies through expert analysis such as SWOT analyses, financial statements, case studies and articles from academic journals, trade magazines, news outlets and more.

    Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  11. IBISWorld

    Description: Up-to-date research and data on hundreds of UK businesses and industries in the UK, including statistics, analysis and forecasts.

    Library users have access to UK Specialized Industry Reports

    Publisher: IBISWorld Limited

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  12. JSTOR

    Description: A digital library of more than 6,500 eBooks and 2,600 scholarly journals covering many topics including humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

    Coverage: 1800 onwards

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History, Art & Design

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  13. Making of the Modern World

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature'
    previously known as 'Making of the world economy'

    Description: A full-text digital archive of over 61,000 works on economics and business published from 1450 through 1850. Drawing from the Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature, this collection consists of over 12 million pages.

    Coverage: 1450 to 1850

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Reference Works, E-books, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  14. Mintel

    Description: New homepage: all available content is displayed together

    To access resource: please click on the check box and the I Accept button at the bottom of the Mintel Academic Access page

    A full-text market research database containing detailed consumer research, sales data and market information.

    Library users have access to both Mintel Reports and Mintel Trends.

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  15. SAGE Journals

    Description: Access to over 1000 journal titles across a range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. Library users have access to the Sage Premier collection

    Coverage: 2013-

    Publisher: Sage

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  16. Sage Knowledge

    Description: A full text monograph database. Library users have access to selected titles within the subject areas of Business, Education, Sociology, Psychology and Health

    Publisher: Sage

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, E-books

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  17. SpringerLink journal and e-book collection

    Description: A database providing access to e-books, journals, articles, protocols and reference works published by Springer. National Library of Scotland users have access to thousands of journal titles and e-books covering humanities, science, business, medicine, law, social science and engineering.

    Publisher: Springer

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, E-books

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  18. University Press Scholarship Online

    Alternative titles: also known as 'UPSO'
    also known as 'Scholarship Online'

    Description: Thousands of e-books, from Oxford University Press and many other university presses offering publications in the humanities, social science and business.

    This resource's content is now accessed on the Oxford Academic platform

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Music, E-books, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.