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Bab.la Dictionary
Bab.la offers translations in many different languages, ranging from colloquial and regional expressions to more technical or field-specific vocabulary. Special features include search filters, synonyms, pronunciation, and sample sentences.
Bank of Canada: Rates and Statistics
Access current and historical statistics from the Bank of Canada, including exchange rates, interest rates, price indexes, and monetary policy indicators. The site includes additional resources such as a currency converter and an inflation calculator.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Bartleby publishes classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge on the Web.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Bates' visual guide to physical examination
BC Historical Newspapers
BCcampus Open Textbooks

Beazley Archive at the Classical Art Research Centre
The Beazley Archive is a research unit of the Faculty of Classics and is housed at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. The electronic archive is comprised of digitized photographs of Greek pottery, gem impressions, drawings, bibliographies, and a dictionary of vocabulary relating to Greek history, myth, geography, art and architecture.
Bentham Open
This is a database of open access journals. The journal articles are freely accessible online and include both the sciences and the humanities
bepress Legal Repository
bepress is a searchable, browseable repository of law-related working papers from law schools and associations.
Bibliografía Mesoamericana
A Joint Project of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies and the Museum Library of the University of Pennsylvania, this database provides access to bibliographic information pertaining to Mesoamerica (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica). Coverage includes archaeology, art history, ethnography, ethnohistory, linguistics, and physical anthropology.
Bibliography of Native North Americans

Search for information about books, essays, journal articles, and government documents pertaining to the culture, history, and life of North America's indigenous peoples.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Access digitized Spanish language texts, and online audio and video recordings.
Biological & Agriculture Index Plus

This database provides access to research materials in the areas of biology, botany, environmental science, wildlife management, and agricultural economics. Select full text is available from some journals.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Provides access to over 300 open access journals. It is possible to use BioMed to search for journals in PubMed.
BioOne

BioOne provides access to full text bioscience research journal articles. The focus of this database is content published by small societies and non-commercial presses.
BioOne Open Access Titles
bioRxiv
Black Drama

Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Some 440 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. An Alexander Street Press collection.
Black Drama 2nd edition

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Black Studies Center

The Black Studies Center provides full text access to scholarly research, historical newspaper articles and other publications on the topic of Black Studies.
Black Thought and Culture

Access non-fiction writings by leading African Americans from colonial times to the present. The collection includes well-known works as well as unique and previously unpublished materials.
Black's Medical Dictionary, 43rd Edition
Blended, Online Learning and Distance Education (BOLDE) Research Bank
Books 24X7


This e-book collection covers topics ranging from business, to information technology, graphic design and computing and includes more than 19,000 titles.
Books In Print
Search a comprehensive database of worldwide English-language, in-print and forthcoming titles that includes books, audios and videos. Access Bowker's Author Biography Database and Publisher Authority Database.
Books@Ovid


Books@Ovid provides access to 344 e-books on various health related topics. The collection is both browseable and searchable.
Bouvier Law Dictionary (1856)
Access John Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union, 1856.
Brill Dictionary of Religion


Brill Encyclopedia of China


This encyclopedia provides information on China from its early beginnings up to today, with a focus on the modern period from the mid-nineteenth century to the 21st century. A wide variety of topics are covered, including the history, geography, society, economy, politics, science, and culture of China.
Brill Online


Brill Online contains several reference e-books which address history, law, and religion.
Brill's New Pauly


Brill's New Pauly is the English translation of Der Neue Pauly. This is an encyclopaedia of the ancient world. It is intended as an aid for the study of Greek and Roman culture and its multifaceted presence in all periods of European and, since the Early Modern period, world history.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

Access detailed accounts spanning 1500 to 1900 in the letters and diaries of women who were resident in Ireland or the British Isles for a significant time. The collection includes published letters and diaries and some unpublished documents as well as biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.
Brockelmann Online


Brockelmann Online consists of both original volumes Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as the three supplement volumes, including the indexes. The full text is searchable, making it much easier to consult for researchers and students. Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. The multi-volume reference work is divided in chronologically organized sections, which are subdivided by literary genre. Individual entries typically consist of a biographical section and a list of the author's works in manuscript and print, with references to secondary literature.
Business Abstracts with Full Text

Access to business magazines and scholarly journals, along with SIC and NAICS codes is provided in this database.
Business and Management Collection (HSTalks)
Business Economics and Theory Collection

This database contains articles in the subject areas of business, economics, finance, agricultural economics, sociology and legal studies.
Business Source Alumni

This database includes publications in nearly every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics and more
Business Source Complete


Business Source Complete provides full text access to a large number of articles on business related topics. It also provides author profiles and company profiles.
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