| B - Databases |
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| Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) | Life Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: The well-rounded, medically-oriented coverage in Bacteriology makes it possible for researchers and clinicians to keep up with the constant changes in this explosive field. With topics ranging from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals, the journal provides access to far-reaching clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. The journal is also valuable to environmentalists, medical and veterinary laboratory staff, agricultural researchers, cell biologists, geneticists, toxicologists, and many others. |
| Banking Information Source | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: ProQuest Banking Information Source is the authoritative resource for information from the financial services industry. |
| Bepress | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Scholarly journals in the areas of Economics, Business, and Marketing; Law; Political Science and Current Affairs; Biological Sciences; and Engineering. |
| Berkeley Electronic Press | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Scholarly journals in the areas of Economics, Business, and Marketing; Law; Political Science and Current Affairs; Biological Sciences; and Engineering. |
| BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art | Art & Humanities | Show Description |
| Description: The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. The database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals. |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 11 million biographical sketches in over 3000 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Biography Index
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| Biography in Context | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines approximately 250,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path. |
| Biography Index | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: A bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
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| Biological & Agricultural index Plus | Life Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: The database includes abstracts and full text coverage for selected journals. Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture. About 45 percent of the focus is on agriculture. |
| Biological Sciences | Life Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 sources including serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents. |
| Biological Sciences & Living Resources | Life Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: For scientists involved in the cooperative management of the world's living aquatic resources, ASFA 1 provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments are examined, including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues. Since natural resources are an important feature of ASFA 1, fisheries receive particular attention, with comprehensive sections that put scientists and managers in touch with the latest fishing methods, statistics, aquaculture, food technology, productivity, conservation, and marketing.
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| BioMed Central | Medicine & Health Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: BioMed Central provides access to 206 peer-reviewed open access journals. |
| Biomedical Journals | Medicine & Health Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: Full text access to 32 biomedical journals. Coverage is from 1993 to the present for the New England Journal of Medicine and from 1995 to the present for all others. |
| Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts | Engineering & Technology | Show Description |
| Description: This database provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology. |
| Biotechnology Research Abstracts | Life Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: Provides access to international research on all aspects of biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science. Coverage is 1980-present.
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| Bizminer.com (trial) | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: BizMiner produces the most granular industry statistical reports in the market. We offer industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more |
| Black Drama (Second Edition) | Art & Humanities | Show Description |
| Description: This edition of Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Some 600 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.
The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area.
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| Black Studies Center | African American Studies | Show Description |
| Description: The Black Studies Center provides current and historical materials for researching African Americans, the African Diaspora, and Africa. It is comprised of the following cross-searchable databases: (1) Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience provides interdisciplinary topics on the African experience throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed timelines along with important research articles, images, film clips and more. (2) International index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) provides current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. (3) The Chicago Defender full text back file from 1910 to 1975. (4) Black Literature Index, the electronic index to the Black Literature microfiche collection. This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
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| Black Thought and Culture | Art & Humanities | Show Description |
| Description: Black Thought and Culture contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material.
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| Black Women Writers | Art & Humanities | Show Description |
| Description: Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women's struggles through time. The database currently features over 106,234 pages |
| BNA Banking Report | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: Latest news and analysis of banking legislation, regulatory policy, litigation, and investment at state and federal levels, from Capitol Hill to key financial centers around the world.
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| BNA Criminal Law Report | Social Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: Reports on significant developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law. Coverage of federal and state court decisions, federal legislative activities, and administrative developments in criminal law. |
| BNA Environment & Safety Library | General, Physical & Earch Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: BNA’s Environment & Safety Library on the Web (ESLW) is a powerful and comprehensive research tool, giving easy and instant access to all the information needed to understand and comply with federal and state environment and safety laws and regulations. In addition to the full text of those laws and regulations, which are updated continually, ESLW includes the full text of environment and safety laws and regulations in Canada and Mexico; the full text of European Union directives and regulations; the complete text of thousands of legal decisions made by federal, state, and administrative courts; and thousands of interactive forms, guidance documents, directories, agency memoranda, and international treaties and agreements to ensure ready access to all relevant and required information. |
| BNA Media Law Reporter | Public Affairs & Law | Show Description |
| Description: Keep up with media law cases on everything from FOIA to the First Amendment, with the only weekly reporting service on significant opinions handed down by federal and state courts at all levels. |
| BNA U.S. Law Week | Public Affairs & Law | Show Description |
| Description: The Supreme Court Today component of Law Week is a searchable database, with daily updates, allowing users to view the status of and search summaries of certiorari petitions filed since the 1995 October Term. The database also contains the full text of Supreme Court opinions, oral argument schedules, selected oral argument summaries, annual reviews of the Court's decisions, and more. |
| Book Review Digest Plus | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Book Review Digest Plus brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. Those indexes are: Applied Science & Technology Index, Art Index, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature, Social Sciences Index, and Business Periodicals Index.
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| Britannica Image Quest (trial) | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: The best education images all in one place
Access more than two million rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world
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| Britannica Online | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of links to other World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors.
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| Business & industry Database | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: Facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets. Covers all industries and is international in scope. Draws content from over 1000 trade and industry publications, regional, national and international newspapers, business dailies and newsletters.
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| Business Abstracts With Fulltext | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: A full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. The abstracts range from 50 to 150 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. Subjects covered include Accounting, Acquisitions & Mergers, Advertising, Banking, Building & Construction, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Communications, Computers, Cosmetics Industry, Economics, Electronics, Entertainment Industry, Finance, Financial Services, Government Regulations, Health Care, High Technology, Hospitality and Tourism, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Insurance, International Business, Investments, Management, Marketing, Mass Media, Occupational Health & Safety, Oil & Gas, Paper & Pulp Industries, Public Utilities, Publishing, Purchasing, Real Estate, Retail Trade, Small Business, Taxation, Technology, and Transportation. |
| Business Dateline | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: ABI/INFORM Dateline™ delivers 175 journals, with more than 170 available in full text. It includes hard-to-find local and regional business publications with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets, and more. ABI/INFORM Dateline allows users to research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies, and other topics from a local and regional perspective. ABI/INFORM Dateline includes major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and area business publications.
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| Business Insights: Essentials | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: Provides company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and industry news and information. |
| Business Source Complete | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: The world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content |
