Online reference resources and Business Information Service
Need help with your homework project or tracing your family history? Writing a business plan and need market research? Or trying to find a newspaper article? Preparing for your driving theory test online? We subscribe to a wide range of resources to help you.
You can access our online resources from your local library or City Central. If you are a member of Liverpool Libraries you can also use many of them from home or work by entering your library card number. If you are not already a member you can join online.
Whether you are a start up business, SME, sole trader, entrepreneur or jobseeker, our Business Information Service offers a wide range of free and current resources to support your business including market research, mailing lists, British Standards and company and supplier information.
Online reference resources
You can log on to the following sites on any computer, using your Liverpool library card number. If you don’t have a library card, join a Liverpool library.
- Newsbank.
- Times Digital Archive.
- 19th Century Newspapers.
- Driving Theory Test.
- Cobra.
- British Standard.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Who's Who and Who was Who.
- Oxford Reference Online.
- Oxford Art Online.
- Oxford Music Online.
- Naxos Music Library.
- Oxford English Dictionary.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.
- Britannica Junior (for ages 5 to 11).
- Britannica Student (for ages 12-18).
- Life in the UK - Citizenship practice test (library card not required).
You can only access the following sites on Liverpool’s public library computers:
All libraries
- Ancestry Library.
- Find My Past.
- Lexis Law Library.
- Which Online.
Allerton, Norris Green and Toxteth libraries
- Keynote.
- Mintel.
City Central Library
- Fame.
- Keynote.
- Kompass.
- Lawtel.
- Lexis Law Library.
- Lloyds Shipfinder.
- Mint.
- Mintel.
- UK Customs Tariff.