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COBRA - People the world over dream of setting up their own business and working for themselves but are often overwhelmed by the prospect. COBRA contains around 4000 factsheets, market reports, contacts, and sources of funding and support to help entrepreneurs plus hundreds of practical guides to starting up more than 350 different types of business.

Creditsafe - Search for companies and find out credit information, financials and director information. The Creditsafe database holds information on 4.4 million UK companies.

Standard reports include:

Credit rating and limit
3 years accounts
CCJ information
Director Information

Creditsafe is only available to use in Bradford's Libraries.

Enquire Enquire is a live question and answer service available 24 hours a day, every day, allowing you to put questions to trained staff who can help you, just as they would if you were talking to them face-to-face or on the telephone in a library. Best of all the service is free and anyone can use it!

Go Citizen - for people preparing for the Life in the UK test or British citizenship test.
This site includes an online version of the latest official study materials licensed from the Home Office, plus hundreds of practice test questions in the same format as the official test.

NewsBank.

Access Local Newspapers

Any customer at any local library or with a library ticket from any PC, at home or at work can now use a new local newspaper archive.

Papers include:
Bradford Telegraph and Argus from 2007 to date, Craven Herald and Pioneer, Keighley News, Keighley Target, Bradford Target, Aire Valley Target, Wharfedale Newspapers from 1998-2008
North Yorkshire, Yorkshire Evening Press, Selby Star, York Star, York Gazette and York Herald and York Advertiser from 1998-2008

OneSource. The number 1 source of information on international (incl. UK) businesses and executives for researchers, students and job seekers and businesses. Common uses are finding businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location. Conduct research about industries and companies. Find executives, corporate families and company descriptions and conduct powerful market research using up to date figures and industry reports. Use this yourself in the library or direct from your home/office using your library ticket.

INFOTRAC: Access current and historical full text articles from 50 journals and 10 newspapers

Full text articles from selected National Daily and Sunday Newspapers, as well as popular journals such as: Lancet, Good Housekeeping, Animals, The Bookseller, British Journal of Psychology, The Literary Review, Computer Weekly, Community Care, Design Week and many others. Search specific journals or all journals with a range of search options. You will need to be a member of the library to use this service from home. Please enter your library card number when prompted

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

Theory Test Pro : Practice the Driving Theory Test and Hazard Perception Test online in the library or from home with your library card.
(Email address needed to register)

Nineteenth Century Newspapers: Explore over 2 million pages of nineteenth century British Library newspapers. All text fully searchable with keywords.

ZINIO Online Magazines - Zinio is a digital magazine service that provides access to popular and recreational magazines. Zinio provides a quick and easy way for library customers to read digital copies of their favourite magazines. Using a PC, Mac or mobile device (phone, tablet etc.), reading fans will be able to access Bradford Libraries’ selected digital magazines.