Worcestershire Libraries subscribed database.

• Available online to all Worcestershire library members

Access Cobra and sign in using your library card number 

An encyclopaedia of practical information for starting, running and managing a small business. Suitable for pre-start and start-up businesses, it provides support and guidance for those initial planning stages, helping you to understand what is needed to get started. Includes over 4,000 fact sheets and local area profiles. 

• Download up to 10 reports per week
• Category: Business Advice and Funding Sources

Watch a short COBRA video

Worcestershire libraries selected free resource

Access Espacenet

Online international patent search facility from The European patent office website. Ideal research tool for inventors and businesses looking to innovate and those who are planning to apply for a patent. Many complete specifications are available. The coverage varies by country.

Suitable for inventors or businesses looking to innovate.

This resource is freely available online.

• Category: intellectual property - patents

FAME - from 11 January 2025, Worcestershire Libraries will no longer subscribe to the FAME service.

Worcestershire libraries subscribed database

• Available in the following libraries: Bromsgrove, Evesham, Kidderminster, Malvern, Redditch, The Hive.

Access FAME database

FAME is a UK & Irish company database listing 9 million companies with access to information such as accounts and director details. Searches can be made by industry, location or financial information.

• Terms and conditions: credit ratings cannot be downloaded, copying, saving or printing out a substantial part of the database is not allowed.
• Category: UK company data