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Best's Insurance Reports. Life/Health, United States and Canada
(CD-ROM, Waldo Library First Floor, Reference Area)
Provides reports for U.S. and Canadian life/health companies, usually giving for each: a brief corporate history; management and operation; assets and liabilities; investment data; operating comment; Best's rating; statistics on company development; insurance in force; new business issued; accident and health written. Also provides a list of state officials, name changes, retired companies, and reinsurance officers, company name, address information, and corporate changes.

Best's Insurance Reports. Property/casualty, United States and Canada
CD-ROM, Waldo Library First Floor, Reference Area
Provides reports for U.S. and Canadian property/casualty companies, usually giving for each: a brief for U.S. property/casualty insurers and branches of foreign insurance companies operating in the U.S. Also provides a directory of other insurers, underwriting organizations, name changes and retired companies, and the 200 largest American property/casualty companies.

Bibliography of American Literature (BAL)
This bibliography lists nearly 40,000 detailed records of the first editions of literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
The online version of a resource listing over 500,000 citations to research on East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Indexes and abstracts more than 4,000 journals as well as books and other publications in European and American art from antiquity to the present. Coverage from 1973 to the present. Updated quarterly.

Biographies Plus Illustrated
Contains more than 145,000 biographies and more than 36,000 photographs. Includes full text articles from Current Biography and other biographical sources. Many of the biographies have links to other sources and citations to articles.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Indexes numerous printed reference sources that include usually short biograhical information on multiple persons. Covers living and deceased people all over the world in all occupations.

Biography Index
Z 5301 .B5 (Reference Collection)
Indexes biographical information from thousands of periodicals and books. Coverage from 1984. Updated weekly.

Biography Resource Center
Over 450,000 biographies on more than 380,000 people, also including full-text articles from more than 300 magazines and newspapers.

Biological and Agricultural Index
Indexes popular and professional journals in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology. Coverage: 1983 - present. Updated: monthly.

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Biology Digest
Indexes non-technical life sciences articles for undergraduate and high school students. Coverage: 1989-present. Updated monthly, September-May.

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BioOne
Covers over 200 high-impact, peer-reviewed full-text journals, in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Includes The Arabidopsis Book. Most titles indesed are published by societies and non-profit scholarly publishers. Coverage, 2000-date. Continuously updated.

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BIOSIS Previews
Comprehensive index with abstracts to periodical articles, reviews, and meetings in all the biological sciences disciplines. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.
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Birds of North America
Detailed scientific information, along with images and audio clips for the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada.

Black Drama
Full text of more than 1,300 plays from the mid-1800s to the present written by 200 African or African-American playwrights. Each play is indexed by keyword and by numerous subjects. Enhanced by reference materials, ancillary information and images.

Black Experience, Schomberg Studies
See Schomberg Studies on the Black Experience

Black Short Fiction
Includes more than 6,400 stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. (When complete the collection will contain approximately 8000 works.) Most of the stories are in English, but some in French, Portuguese, and Gullah language are also included. Search by keyword, title, author, language and date.

Black Thought and Culture
A digital collection of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.

Black Women Writers
Will eventually contain over 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora. African American women's writings begin in the late 18th century with narratives depicting slavery. The plan is to cover the Harlem Renaissance writers and writers from the movements of the 1960s. This will also cover works by women in the Caribbean from the second part of the 20th century. African women came into their own as writers during the late 1950s and 1960s, and the aim is to include works from more than 20 African countries.

Blackwell Synergy (now part of Wiley Interscience)
A collection of almost 900 full text journals, which is now part of Wiley Interscience, in all fields including Business, Health Sciences, Physical and Life Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bodleian Library Catalogue
This is a digitized copy of the Bodleian Library Incunable Catalog, providing a searchable collection of files of the index: A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Oxford, by Alan Coates, Kristian Jensen, Cristina Dondi, Bettina Wagner, and Helen Dixon, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Book Review Digest
Indexes and excerpts reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books published in leading periodicals. Scholarly books, textbooks, government publications, and technical books are excluded. Online coverage: 1983-present. Updated weekly.

Book Review Digest Retrospective 1905-1982
Indexes and excerpts reviews of 300,000 English-language fiction and nonfiction books published in leading periodicals. Scholarly books, textbooks, government publications, and technical books are excluded.
Print: Z 1219 .C96 (Ref)
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Book Review Index
Provides reviews of general interest and some scholarly books published in the US since 1965. This doesn't have the excerpts from reviews that Book Review Digest provides, nor does it go back to 1905, but it does index many more periodicals.
Print: Z 1035 .A1 B6 (Ref)

Books in Print
Lists millions of records for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from thousands of publishers (including audio and videocassettes). Some book reviews are included. Please logoff when finished.

Books24x7
More than 6,000 full text books in business, IT and engineering. BroncoNet ID required for login. This subscription is limited to five simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
An extensive annotated bibliography of books and articles on the archaeology of Britain and Ireland with citations going back to the 17th century. Updated twice a year.

British Periodicals
Search the full text of 160 British journals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Topics include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.

Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook
See Mental Measurements Yearbook

Business and Company Resource Center
The Business and Company Resource Center provides information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures, company financial information and earning estimates, investment reports, corporate chronologies and company histories, industry rankings, market share data and more.

Business NewsBank
Provides hard to find local, regional and national business news articles containing in-depth company, industry, product and executive news, both private and public companies from more than 500 business journals, newspapers and wires. Coverage is from 1993 to date. Updated daily.

Business Organizations, Agencies, and Publications Directory
A guide to more than 40,000 organizations and publications worldwide that serve business and industry.

Business Rankings Annual

A bibliographic guide to more than 8,000 ranked lists of companies and other subjects that appear in over 1,000 periodicals, newspapers, financial services, statistical annuals, and other sources. It is arranged by specific subject, and the data about each usually includes the criteria for the ranking, the names of the top 5 or 10 in the ranking, the source (including date and page). At the end of the print volume is an index by subject and ranked company, and a separate bibliography of the sources (such as Fortune). HG 4050 .B88 2009 (Reference Desk Collection)