FAU Libraries Databases by Title: B

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Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) | 1982-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Covers topics ranging from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals; provides access to clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.

BasicBIOSIS | 1998-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries and written for undergraduate non-biology majors.  Includes popular and scholarly science journals.  [This resource has been discontinued by the publisher.  Access to the BasicBIOSIS database will end on June 30, 2008.]

Berkeley Electronic Press | Full Text | Vendor: bepress
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Contents/Info: Journals in the following categories: Economics, Business, and Marketing; Law; Political Science and Current Affairs; Biological Sciences; Engineering.

Bibliography of the History of Art  | 1973-present | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.

BioEngineering Abstracts see  Biotechnology & Bioengineering  Abstracts  | 1983-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  BioEngineering Abstracts provides access to international research on all aspects of biochemical and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index  | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in over 3400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

Biography Index | 1984-present | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®  | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group 
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Contents/Info: A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Biological and Agricultural Index Plus  | 1983-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: This database includes abstracts and full text coverage for selected journals. Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture. About 45 percent of the focus is on agriculture. Full text coverage begins in January 1997.

Biological and Medical Sciences  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Search multiple databases covering biological and medical sciences.

Biology Digest  | 1989-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Compilation of abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences.

Biotechnology & Bioengineering  Abstracts  | 1983-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Biotechnology Research Abstracts provides access to international research on all aspects of biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science. 

BioMed Central | Full Text  | Vendor: BioMed Central
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Contents/Info: BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

BioOne | Full Text | Vendor: BioOne
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Contents/Info: BioOne is the product of an 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.

BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database | 1998-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: This 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.

Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts | 1982-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: This database provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering.

Birds of North America | Full Text | Vendor: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Contents/Info: A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. This resource will provide access to image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. Each online species account will contain recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Black Drama | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Black Drama - Second Edition | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: This initial release of Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Black Short Fiction | Mid-1900s - Present | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: The most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, along with francophone authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

Black Studies Center | Some Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info:  Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.  It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.

Black Thought and Culture  | Colonial Times-1975 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:  This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.