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General Content Questions

What is Bloomsbury Professional Online?

Bloomsbury Professional Online is an online subscription service delivering our well known and authoritative tax and law publications through a state of the art research platform which enables users to browse, search, save and share documents

What's in Bloomsbury Professional Online?

For the Irish market, the following three services are available. Follow the links to find out more about the content included in each service.

Services for the UK market launch in Autumn 2011 and include:

  • Core Tax Service
  • Trusts and Estates
  • Property Tax
  • Family and Owner-managed Companies
  • High Net Worth Individuals
  • Employment Tax
  • VAT on Construction, Land and Property
  • Norfolk and Montagu on the Taxation of Interest and Debt Finance

How often will it be updated?

The updating cycle varies from product to product. All content included on Bloomsbury Professional Online shows a publication date and/or a law stated at date.

How do I submit a comment or correction?

If you have any general or specific comments about our content or the site itself, please send an email to our online customer support team. If you wish to comment about a specific document, please provide as much detail as possible and include the URL by copying and pasting the URL from your browser's address box into your message.

Subscription Questions

How do I subscribe to Bloomsbury Professional Online?

Annual subscriptions are available for all services. You can:

Is it possible to have a free trial?

Free 7 day trials are available to firms and individuals considering a subscription. You can:

Access Questions

I cannot access Bloomsbury Professional Online

Firms

If your firm is using IP recognition:

  • it may be that a new IP address has been added by your firm which we do not yet recognise; or
  • you may be outside your firm's  network

If you are not using IP recognition:

  • you may have entered an incorrect username or password or no longer have an active subscription.

In both cases, please contact our online customer support team.

Individual Customers

You may have entered an incorrect username or password or no longer have an active subscription. Please contact our online customer support team.

Is library card access available?

Libraries have the option to allow patrons to access the site using their library barcode. Please have your librarian or administrator to contact us for further details on setting up library card access.

Is Bloomsbury Professional Online accessible through Athens or Shibboleth?

Not yet, but we are considering enabling Athens and Shibboleth sign-on for a future release.

I have forgotten my username and password.

Please contact our online customer support team.

Technical questions

Is my web browser compatible with Bloomsbury Professional Online?

The site works well with most current and many legacy browsers. Please note that different browsers may render site features in a slightly or radically different way and that performance (page load time) may vary between browsers. The site has been tested with the following browsers.

  • Internet Explorer 9
  • Internet Explorer 8
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Internet Explorer 6 (Performance on IE6 may be noticeably slower than other browsers)
  • Firefox 4
  • Firefox 3
  • Firefox 2
  • Safari 5
  • Google Chrome

Is Bloomsbury Professional Online OpenURL compliant?

Yes, the site is compliant with the 0.1 OpenURL specification. To enable this feature for your firm or institution, please contact our online customer support team.