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Patents and trade marks

Intellectual Property Office - Patent document and information service (Ipsum) FREE online service which lets you check the status and access information on UK patent applications.

Social media

Talk Walker Track your campaigns and hashtags for free.

Finance

Accounting Standards Updates Issued The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) publishes these accounting updates regularly. They can be downloaded and printed for individual non-commercial purposes.
Finance - Google search Run a dummy portfolio, buy and sell shares and see how the portfolio is performing in real time – takes up-to-date pricing from the stock market.
Portfolio - London Stock Exchange Create an account to run a dummy portfolio, buy and sell shares and see how the portfolio is performing in real time – takes up-to-date pricing from the stock market.
Stock portfolio and tracker - Yahoo Finance un a dummy portfolio, buy and sell shares and see how their portfolio is performing in real time – takes up-to-date pricing from the stock market.

Bank of England Statistical releases from the Bank of England contain the latest data and, in some cases, accompanying analysis and commentary.
NOMIS - National Online Manpower Information System Nomis is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources.
South West Observatory The South West Observatory (SWO) works towards this vision by drawing together research, resources and analysis from its network of individuals and organisations working across policy themes and from different local areas in the South West.
HESA Data Analysis Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes data on all aspects of the UK higher education sector.
UCAS data and analysis Undergraduate statistics and reports
NHS England statistics We publish statistics on a range of health and care subjects. These statistics are used to inform debate, decision-making and research both within Government and by the wider community.
Hospital episode statistics from NHS England
Health in Wales: statistics and data Data on health and healthcare in Wales is produced by a number of different bodies for different purposes.
European Data Portal The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on public data portals across European countries. Information regarding the provision of data and the benefits of re-using data is also included,
UK Data Service

OECD statistics OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
Gapminder that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
UNData The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) data portal. Useful features like Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries are also provided to aid research. The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes.
UNIDO Statistics Data Portal Includes Industrial Demand Supply Statistics and Industrial Statistics databases.
World Bank Data Catalog World Bank time series data including World Development Indicators amongst others.
World Bank by Countries
UN Comtrade | International Trade Statistics Database The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) was established in the early 1960s. For almost fifty years, it has provided a wealth of trade information to policy makers, the business community, research institutions and the general public. It stores standardised official annual and monthly trade statistics reported by countries and reflects international merchandise flows detailed by commodity and partner country with coverage reaching up to 99 percent of world merchandise trade. UN Comtrade gives you instant access to more than 3.3 billion records on merchandise trade from over 200 reporting countries or areas covering 54 years of data and more than 6000 different products. The data are updated continuously with about 300 million records added per year.
Wikidata The free knowledge base with 58,959,260 data items that anyone can edit.

Events

Future Ready Students - Library events programme

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USW Alumni Enterprise and Business: information resources : Websites

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