BEOnline began in 1996 as an experimental project of
the Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team (BEAT) of the
Cataloging Directorate of the Library of Congress to explore means of access and
bibliographic control for remote Internet resources
of interest to the practice or study of
entrepreneurship and small business.
Currently, data on the Internet resources included in the BEOnline guides is maintained in an inhouse database from which the approximately ninety BEOnline subject guides are dynamically generated.