Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) is a database containing the financial information of about 11 million companies in the UK. All listed companies are covered, as well as many small companies, medium companies, and companies that are no longer active. You can download financial reports for individual companies, and you can run complex searches and comparisons between companies within certain industries. FAME is maintained by Bureau van Dijk.

OSIRIS is a database containing the financial information of about 80,000 listed, and major unlisted/delisted, companies worldwide. You can download financial reports for individual companies, and you can run complex searches and comparisons between companies within certain industries. OSIRIS is maintained by Bureau van Dijk. Video tutorial.

MarketLine contains many industry and company profiles and reports, containing among other things: business histories, SWOT analyses, details of key competitors, case studies, and financial deals. User Guide and Video tutorial.

Lexis Library is a legal database that contains resources relating to banking and finance.  Browse information by selecting the relevant practice area (top left hand menu). Video tutorial.

Henry Stewart Business and Management Collection includes over 1100 specially commissioned multimedia lectures, case stories and industry insights by experts from academia and industry. Quick Start Guide available here.

British Standards Online is a database containing approximately 80,000 standards documents. It includes International (ISO) Standards, British (BSI) Standards and European (IEC) Standards. Bibliographic data only for American (ASTM) Standards. Click to view the User Guide.

General Resources contains a list of major university wide databases and search engines, such as the Library catalogue, Discover, Credo Reference, Newsbank and Scopus. Visit the General Resources page for more information.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is an independent research institute, launched with the principal aim of better informing public debate on economics in order to promote the development of effective fiscal policy.

The Royal Economic Society is an economic association promoting the study of economic science in academic life, government service, business, industry and public affairs.

The central bank of the UK, the Bank of England is a diverse organisation maintaining monetary and financial stability.

The European Central Bank is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. Statistics and publications are available online.

The World Bank provides a variety of financial products and technical assistance, as well as publishing data and reports.

A member of the World Bank Group, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 189 countries, working towards global monetary cooperation, financial stability, international trade, high employment, sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

The World Economic Forum is an international organisation promoting public-private co-operation.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe.

IECONOMICS contains information about 196 countries, including historical data for more than 300,000 economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and commodity prices.

Quandl is a source for financial, economic, and alternative datasets, serving investment professionals.

Knoema is a collection of public data and statistics, in ready-to-use visualisations, featuring about 2.5 billion time series from thousands of sources.

Moody's Analytics are recognized for our industry-leading solutions, comprising research, data, software and professional services, assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience.

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TheGlobalEconomy.com provides up-to-date numbers for GDP, inflation, credit, interest rates, unemployment, and many other indicators. The data series are updated continuously based on the release dates of individual countries.

The International Monetary Fund provides free access to over 21,000 ebooks via their IMF eLibrary.