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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.

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 publishes classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge on the Web.

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.

This is a database of open access journals. The journal articles are freely accessible online and include both the sciences and the humanities

bepress is a searchable, browseable repository of law-related working papers from law schools and associations.

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.

Search for information about books, essays, journal articles, and government documents pertaining to the culture, history, and life of North America's indigenous peoples.

Access digitized Spanish language texts, and online audio and video recordings.

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 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 provides access to full text bioscience research journal articles. The focus of this database is content published by small societies and non-commercial presses.

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.

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

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.

This e-book collection covers topics ranging from business, to information technology, graphic design and computing and includes more than 19,000 titles.

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 provides access to 344 e-books on various health related topics. The collection is both browseable and searchable.

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.

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 contains several reference e-books which address history, law, and religion.

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.

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 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.

Access to business magazines and scholarly journals, along with SIC and NAICS codes is provided in this database.

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

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

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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