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BAMCO
The manuscripts and archives of Brown University are a rich and diverse resource for students, faculty, and other researchers from a variety of disciplines. The collections are particularly strong in the following areas: American literature (especially poetry and drama), American political and diplomatic history, Rhode Island history, women's studies, history of education, and history of science. The collections are not limited to these areas, however, and new uses and interpretations of the materials are continually being discovered.
The BAMCO site does not encompass all of the holdings of the Brown University Library. Interested researchers should consult the Collections A-Z page for further information on our holdings and for contact information. [This resource is publicly available.]
Bases de Datos del CSIC Note: The search engine is not sensitive to accents and diacritics other than the tilde in the letter . The letter n alone cannot act as a replacement. In such cases replace with the truncation symbol *, or copy and paste this letter from a word processing program.
Created by the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC) for the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Spain, the Bases de Datos del CSIC contains three databases that index Spanish journals and conference papers.
ISOC - 1975-present; contains seventeen subdatabases in the social sciences and humanities. ICYT - 1979-present; contains ten subdatabases on science and technology.
IME - 1971-present; biomedicine.
Beilstein 
1779-present; Reaxys is a web-based discovery tool that searches across the combined content of databases Crossfire Beilstein (organic data), Crossfire Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic data), and Patent Chemistry. Results include structures, reactions (with multi-step synthetic pathways), physical properties, and pharmacological, toxicological, and ecological data. Search by structure and/or fields or use names or phrases to find structures. Replaces Crossfire Beilstein client software.
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Bible in English (990-1970)
Contains twenty versions of the English Bible.
BibleWorks 4
1999 edition. BibleWorks is an electronic Bible concordance and morphological analysis program. It includes texts of the Hebrew O.T., Greek O.T. and N.T. and a wide range of English and modern foreign language texts. It also has Bible dictionaries and other aids. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.)
(Rockefeller Library)
Biblical World in Pictures
More than 1,300 photographs of Bible sites, archaeological remains, maps, artifacts, inscriptions, and ancient manuscripts. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.)
Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980
1980-present; a resource for scholars of Spanish literature, Bibliografía de la Literatura Española provides bibliographic information on a wide range of subject areas including literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies and authors.
Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology
1970-present; the Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology is an online reference service that provides full-feature, one-query searches of world micropaleontological literature. Intelligent searches can be narrowed according to fossil groups, range of dates, types of publications, GeoRef keywords, singly or in combination. Matched citations and groups of citations can be downloaded as plain text files for reference lists.
Bibliography of American Literature
Bibliography of American Literature describes in exhaustive detail the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. More than 37,000 works are listed.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
1971-present; this online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 610,000 records of materials in all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Bibliography of the History of Art
1990-2007; covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. 
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Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL-2)
2003 edition; BTL-2 is the electronic version of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum Teubneriana. It offers the user the complete texts, other than the prefaces or critical apparatus, from the standard editions (editions maiores) of about 500 works spread over eight centuries (c. 300 BC/BCE to c. 500 AD/CE). BTL-2 includes the complete corpus of texts of the 'Grammatici Latini', 'Servius Grammaticus', a small selection of other texts together with all texts offered in BTL-1. (Available at the Reserves Desk for use on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.)
(Rockefeller Library)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
For nearly twenty-five years, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) has been the best place to begin a search for information about people. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
BioKnowledge Library
Six protein information volumes make up the Proteome BioKnowledge Library. Each volume focuses on a specific research organism or set of organisms. Proteome's team of scientific curators and editors gather publicly available translated cDNA sequences and manually comb the published scientific literature to collect and organize information on characterized proteins. This information is compiled into a comprehensive database containing all published proteins in the target species. A protein report, containing tabulated data and a compendium of research results gathered from the scientific literature, is central to all BioKnowledge Library databases. A protein report exists for each protein in the database.
Biological Abstracts
1969-present; international coverage of research in the life sciences.
BioOne
BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of the titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database
2000-present; the BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 65 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers. Subject coverage includes: economic botany, entomology, environmental science, evolutionary biology, genetics, microbiology, natural history, photobiology, veterinary science and zoology.
Black Drama
1850-present; when complete, Black Drama will contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Book Review Index Online Plus
1965-present; a comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 634,000 full-text reviews.
Brepols Latin Complete
A collection of works published by Brepols which have been grouped together, and may now be cross-searched at one time using the Cross-Database Search Tool. Works included are Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature.
Brill's New Pauly
Brill's New Pauly is an English translation (with revisions) of the German Der Neue Pauly which itself is the latest revision of the great multi-volume encyclopedia of the ancient world, known familiarly as Pauly-Wissowa. This resource in print was known as the Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft begun by August Pauly in 1839, with an expanded edition by Georg Wissowa published between 1890 and 1980. The New Pauly is still in progress, but includes access to the German edition, which was completed in 2003. The online version, like the print edition, includes two sections: Antiquity and the Classical Tradition.
Britannica Online
Current; a reference site for students and educators synthesizing editorially reviewed websites and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
British Parliamentary Papers
1990-present; CD-ROM index to the sessional papers of the House of Commons and House of Lords, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, and the Journal of the House of Commons. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster)
(Rockefeller Library)
Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections Online (BAMCO)
The manuscripts and archives of Brown University are a rich and diverse resource for students, faculty, and other researchers from a variety of disciplines. The collections are particularly strong in the following areas: American literature (especially poetry and drama), American political and diplomatic history, Rhode Island history, women's studies, history of education, and history of science. The collections are not limited to these areas, however, and new uses and interpretations of the materials are continually being discovered.
The BAMCO site does not encompass all of the holdings of the Brown University Library. Interested researchers should consult the Collections A-Z page for further information on our holdings and for contact information. [This resource is publicly available.]
Brown Theses and Dissertations
The Brown University Theses and Dissertations database includes over 15,000 records for dissertations written and submitted in fulfillment of Brown University degree requirements from 1893 to 2000. Included are undergraduate honors theses, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. Records include the author's name, thesis title, degree awarded, year, granting department, and when available, thesis advisor. [This resource is publicly available.]
BuildingGreen.com
Current; designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings. Both print and electronic resources are available to help design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance. BuildingGreen.com publishes Environmental Building News, the GreenSpec directory of green products, and the BuildingGreen Suite of online tools.
Business Source Complete
Date varies; Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database. It contains indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 25,000 most-cited authors in the database. Disciplines covered include business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.