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Resources Beginning with "B"
Babel Fish Translation
Babel Fish Translation translates short passages of text or entire Web sites among nineteen pairs of languages. An on-screen "virtual keyboard" is available to enter accented or Cyrillic characters. Babel Fish Translation is provided by AltaVista™.
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Bach Bibliography
Contains over 23,000 citations to scholarly literature relating to Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Bad Bug Book
This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, viruses and parasites) and natural toxins.
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Bank for International Settlements Financial Statistics
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS - established in 1930 under the Hague Agreements) provides central banks and other financial authorities with finance statistics to promote greater monetary and financial stability.
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Bartleby.com
Project Bartleby is a full text database of quotations, verse, and reference works from over 100 sources.
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Basque Database
Provides multilingual access to Basque-studies books, articles, chapters, dissertations, films and other materials.
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BBC News
Up-to-Date world developments as reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Also see BBC News Country Profiles .
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Beaucoup
Search over a dozen search engines at one time, or click on one of the subject links from the main page to find specialized search tools and databases on specific topics. See Beaucoup complete list of search engines.
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Bentham Open Access
Includes more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all major disciplines.
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BEOnline Plus
Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library
of Congress reference staff
- Business and Economics Web sites
- Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
- International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
- Science and Technology Web sites
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Berita Database
Bibliographic database indexing over 8,000 articles from published and unpublished sources pertaining to Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and all of Southeast Asia.
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Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
BCIN contains nearly 200,000 citations covering the areas of conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.
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Bibliographic Index Plus
Cumulative bibliography for information in all areas of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology.
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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
German language index of (primarily) German language periodicals covering all aspects of German language and literature.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
Contains nearly 600,000 entries covering books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all subjects (but primarily in the humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, South, and Southeast Asia.
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Bibliography of Books Printed in the German Speaking Countries from 1601 to 1700
Projekt VD 17 (Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum) contains bibliographic records for German titles and all titles which have been printed or published in the former German speaking countries. Printed music and maps are excluded.
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Bibliography of Collective Biographies of Women
An annotated bibliography of the more than 930 books published in English between 1830 and 1940 that collect three or more women's biographies in narrative form.
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Bibliography of Data Related Literature
A searchable database that contains over 40,000 citations of published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) archive.
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Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates
BFV contains over 130,000 references to published literature of vertebrate paleontology, evolutionary paleoecology, and related subjects. Maintained by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
BONIS is a selective rather than exhaustive list of noteworthy editions, monographs, articles and reviews dealing with Old Norse philology (literature, language and history).
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Bibliography of The Hebrew Book
Includes over 120,000 titles and 13,500 authors covering 500 years of books published in the Hebrew language.
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Bibliography of the History of Art
Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.
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Bibliography on Computational Gene Recognition
Provides searching to a collection of publications on computational gene recognition, mainly based on statistical differences of coding and non-coding sequences.
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BiblioLine Databases
Cross-Search Library of Congress National Information Services Corporation (NISC) Databases.
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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE focuses on scholarly information on the web (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals, etc), and can be searched by a basic search using a single search field and by an advanced search with multiple search fields and more sophisticated search options.
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Bioethics Literature Database
BELIT provides access to over 300,000 bibliographic records covering bioethics.
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Provides biographical information on the more than 13,000 persons who have served in the United States Congress, including those who served in the Continental Congress.
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Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work.
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Biographies PolySearch Engine
Search for biographical information, sketches, and full biographies of famous and infamous historical figures, politicians, scientists, authors, artists & athletes from a variety of freely available websites.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
An index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2,700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
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Biography Index
Cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus select other titles.
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Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center contains nearly 415,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people gathered from more than 780 volumes of over 120 Gale reference sources as well as full-text articles from more than 280 magazines specifically chosen for their biographical content in a broad range of subject areas.
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Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
Cites articles from a wide range of over 365 popular and professional (peer-reviewed) journals about biology and agriculture published in the United States and internationally.
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BiologyBrowser
Browse for information in the life sciences by geography, organisms, and subject.
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BioMagResBank
BMRB is a database for NMR spectroscopy information on biomolecules.
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BioMed Central
Digital full text archive of over 100 life sciences journals managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the United States National Library of Medicine. Access to PubMed Central is free and unrestricted.
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Biomedical Acronym / Abbreviation Definition Database
Users can enter either an acronym or the full term and find out the acronym. There are links to abstracts within MEDLINE records using the terms.
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BioOne
Full-text journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Covers the following areas: biology; botany; ecology; entomology; mammalogy; microbiology; ornithology; paleontology; and zoology.
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BizSeer
BizSeer catalogs and indexes academic business documents.
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Black Americans in Congress
Contains biographical profiles of current and former African-American Members of Congress.
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Black Studies Center
BSC combines three resources for research in Black Studies - the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender - to provide a fully cross-searchable gateway to scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and other related sources.
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Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, or the Black Studies Database (BSD), includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports covering topics in African-American, African, and African Diasporan Studies.
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Black Thought and Culture
Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.
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Blinkx
Video search engine allowing users to find online news, movie trailers, and popular multimedia segments from BBC News, CNN, Comedy Channel, YouTube, History Channel, NYTimes, etc.
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BMS Online: Bibliography of Music Literature
Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums is an international bibliography of music literature.
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Book History Online
The BHO database contains over 28,000 records for books and articles on the history of the printed book and libraries worldwide.
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Book Review Digest Plus
Indexes reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for adults and children from periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews.
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Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
Contains thousands of terms and definitions which deal with the binding, care and repair of books.
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BookPLUS
Catalog containing bibliographic information for nearly 2 million books published in Japan.
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Books in Print
Global Books in Print contains over 5 million bibliographic records for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audiobooks, and videos published in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States.
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BOPCRIS : Unlocking Key British Government Publications
Search and browse information in over 24,000 documents from the the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS).
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Brazil's Popular Groups
Searchable index to Library of Congress microfilm holdings documenting popular movements which grew during the period of Brazilian military rule (1964 - 1984) and after the inauguration of Brazil's New Republic in 1985.
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Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies Online
The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (400-1500) providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
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Britannica GeoAnalyzer
Country Snapshots offer statistics on demography, vital statistics, national economy, transportation and communication, education and health, and military for individual countries.
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Britannica Online
The complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Also has an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
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Britannica World Atlas
Maps, articles, and statistics on individual countries. From Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online.
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British and Irish Legal Information Institute Databases
BAILII contains primary legal and legislative materials for England and Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United Kingdom, and the European Union.
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British Library Direct
Contains roughly 9 million records from the 20,000 most popular journal titles collected by the British Library.
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British Library Images Online
Search or browse (by subject or title) thousands of images from the British Library’s collections.
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British Pathe Film Archive
Preview the newsreel collections from the entire 3,500 hour British Pathe Film Archive covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841 - 1902
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, was one of the most widely read afternoon newspapers in the United States during the Civil War.
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Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive
University of Michigan Library's archive containing documents and images chronicling events surrounding desegregation up to the present.
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Browse Government Resources
Provides sources of government information of broad scope, official US Executive Branch Web sites, other Federal government Web sites (for example, US Census, GAO, GPO, etc) and links to other organizational Internet resources on US politics.
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Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Economic Analysis, an agency of the Department of Commerce, provides estimates for national, international, regional and industry aspects of the United States economy.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Federal government statistics on inflation & consumer spending; wages, earnings, & benefits; productivity; employment & unemployment, and occupations.
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Business and Company Resource Center
Provides detailed company and industry news and information, including company profiles, company brand and product information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, news articles, industry associations, and legal issues.
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Business and Industry
Contains facts, figures and key events for international public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and service industries.
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Business and Management Practices
Contains articles from over 795 sources on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change.
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Business Dateline
Provides indexing and abstracts for over 535 regional publications, Business Wire press releases, and major newspapers. Many of the titles are also available in full text thru ProQuest.
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Business Dynamics Statistics
The BDS is a United States Census Bureau data series that allows users to track annual changes in employment for growing and shrinking businesses at the establishment level.
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Business Full Text
Wilson Business Abstracts provides complete indexing and abstracting to over 850 leading English-language publications.
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Business Organizations, Agencies and Publications Directory
Describes an organization's products and services, along with information about the organization's founding date, membership size, and publications.
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Business Reference Suite
Comprises three databases featuring 1,400 leading worldwide business sources to provide a global focus on facts, figures, and trends that affect business.
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Business Seek
Businesseek provides a comprehensive small business directory on the Internet, a business search engine, news, stock quotes, advice, and much more.
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