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Researching your business ideas

Newcastle BIPC, City Library has everything you need to help you research your business ideas. Whether you require information on business start-up, company histories, market trends or consumer behaviour, our resources will enable you to find your niche and develop a business that fulfils your customers’ needs.

Resources at City Library

BIPC Newcastle holds a wide selection of reference and lending material on topics such as marketing, accounting, inventing, business start-up, data protection and intellectual property rights – everything you need to research each stage of your developing business. Visitors can also access specialist reference resources including up to date directories and yearbooks as well as magazines and journals including Financial Times, Accountancy and Investor’s Chronicle.

In addition, specialist subscription databases allow visitors to access business histories, financial information, peer assessments and details of company products and services. Our databases provide a greater range and depth of information than you can find using a standard search engine and may only be accessed at the City Library.  View a list of the available databases.

Accessing information online

Although some of our specialist business databases can only be accessed in the library itself, a wide range of high quality online resources is also available from home or office via our ‘24 Hour Library’. These include:

  • British Standards – quality standards required in business and industry;
  • CANS – accurate up to date legal information;
  • Newsstand – full text access to a selection of newspaper titles.

In addition, eBooks on a range of subjects including business management and software applications are also available via the 24 Hour Library.Visit the 24 Hour Library.

You will require a library card to log in to online resources. Join Newcastle Libraries.

View our recommended websites which include share price data and business start-up information. View business information websites.