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Whatever your business, staff at Paisley Central Reference Library can help you with your business information needs. What do you need to know?

Health and safety - our collection includes:

• Health and Safety at work journal - the official journal of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management.

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Companies and products - our collection includes:

• Kompass - a massive database of UK company and product information.

Kompass have just launched their new website. Please note that the logging on from home facility is not available at present due to a technical problem. Kompass are working on it at the moment and we will inform you as soon as this has been resolved.

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• Hoover's handbook of American business
• D&B Business Register
• D&B Who owns whom (UK and Ireland)
• The Waterlow Stock Exchange yearbook
• Keynote Regional leads report for Western Scotland

Telephone numbers -If you looking for telephone numbers, residential and business, our collection includes:

• a complete set of BT phone books, covering the whole of the UK
• a complete set of Yellow Pages, covering the whole of the UK

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Management - our collection includes:

• Management Today journal - focuses on the issues which most challenge Britain's managers. Read more about Management Today.
• Insider: Scotland's business magazine. Read more about Insider.
• Textbooks

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Finance - our collection includes:

• Tolley's yellow tax handbook - an annual 4 volume guide to tax legislation
• Business Moneyfacts journal - the "business finance bible"
• e-moneyfacts - online access to accurate, independent financial information. Read more about e-moneyfacts.
• Investors Chronicle journal - read more about Investors Chronicle.
• Economist journal - read more about the Economist.

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Business news - our collection includes:

• Daily newspapers
• an online searchable database of UK national and regional newspapers. Search it now!

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Legislation - our collection includes:

• CANS Advice Notes - reliable and accurate legal information written in straightforward language and divided into 20 subject areas, including business and employment. Hard copy and online access both available in the library. Read more about CANS.
• Textbooks on employment law and company law.

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Marketing - our collection includes

• Marketing magazine - the leading weekly for the marketing industry
• Advertisers Annual - the blue book. An important source of information on advertising agencies and the UK's top advertisers and brands.
• Textbooks

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