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    Bartleby.com

    Description:

    A comprehensive public searchable database of reference, verse, and classic literature. The site is divided into four sections: Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction.

    Service Provider: Bartleby.com Inc.

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    Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination and OSCE Clinical Skills Videos

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    Delivers more than 8 hours of video content that provides head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the Advanced Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course, or for practitioners requiring a review of the History & Physical.

    • Bates’ Physical Examination Videos cover infant, child and older adult head-to-toe assessments, in addition to cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, musculoskeletal system, and nervous system physical examination techniques.
    • OSCE Clinical Skills videos are designed to prepare students for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations. Each video allows the viewer to observe a patient encounter, develop an assessment or differential diagnosis, and provide an appropriate diagnostic workup.

    Service Provider: Ovid/Wolters Kluwer

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    Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples of North America

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    Bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. Wide range of topics covered include archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.

    This resource contains more than 141,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost

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    BigCharts

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    Comprehensive and easy-to-use investment research web site providing access to professional-level research tools such as interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis and intraday stock screeners, as well as market news and commentary.

    Service Provider: MarketWatch, Inc.

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    Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Description:

    Open access digital library providing free, worldwide access to the world’s collective knowledge about biodiversity.

    As a curated digital collection aggregating content from hundreds of providers into a single platform, BHL is a reflection of the historical collection development decisions of those providers as well as the publishing practices and historical colonial processes that have shaped the scholarly record of biodiversity science.

    **The Biodiversity Heritage Library acknowledges the existence of harmful content in many biodiversity science publications and original materials included in its collection. The harmful content in BHL’s collection goes against the values of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It is provided for access as part of the historical record.

    Service Provider: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

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    Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)

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    Enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on more than 6 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.

    Service Provider: Gale

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    Biological & Agricultural Index Plus™

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    Provides access to full text articles from over 100 journals dating back to 1997, as well as indexing and abstracts of more than 380 publications. Subject coverage includes agriculture & agricultural research, atmospheric science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology microbiology, physics and much more.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost

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    Biological Abstracts

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    Provides comprehensive indexing for international literature in the life sciences, including biology, agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health, veterinary science, zoology, and toxicology.

    Most citations include abstracts and some include links to full-text content from other providers, based on institutional subscriptions. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, book chapters, patents, reviews, and conference proceedings.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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    BioOne Complete

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    Full text access to more than 190 high quality, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Most journals included are published by small societies or non-commercial publishers.

    User Guides and Video Tutorials

    Service Provider: BioOne

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    Bloomsbury Academic Open Access

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    Collection of open access eBooks focusing on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 

    All Bloomsbury open access books can be downloaded free of charge from Bloomsbury Collections by anyone with an internet connection. You can download a PDF of the whole book, as well as individual chapter PDFs, and you may share these PDFs with others.

    Service Provider: Bloomsbury

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    Book Review Digest Plus

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    Indexes and provides access to some 1,300,000 book review excerpts and over 100,000 full text book reviews from over 8,000 periodicals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media.

    Every book appears with all of its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews with excerpts and full text, depending upon the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature.

    Coverage dates back to 1983. Titles reviewed include fiction and non-fiction, children’s books as well as books for adults and young adults.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost

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    Britannica Academic Edition

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    Fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references including over 100,000 EB base articles and historical Britannica Year in Review supplemental articles, definitions from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus, plus an expansive collection of multimedia including images, videos, audio, interactives, and infographics. journal and periodical content provided by EBSCO, hand-picked Web’s Best Sites links, and primary sources & e-books from multiple sources including the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School.

    Service Provider: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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    Business Abstracts with Full-Text

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    This comprehensive database contains the full text of articles from more than 510 key publications dating back to 1995, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more.

    Subject coverage includes accounting, acquisitions & mergers, advertising, banking, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, communications, economics, entertainment industry, finance, financial services, government regulations, industrial relations, insurance, international business, investments, marketing, retail trade, small business and much more.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost

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    Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center

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    Offers full text access to more than 240 journals, monographs, magazines and trade publications, all with a strong focus on BC/DR and closely aligned issues. It features hundreds of thousands of additional BC/DR-focused articles, benchmarks and best practices selected from hundreds of leading trade and industry publications. 

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost

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    Business Source Complete

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    Access content from over 3,200 (over 2,700 full-text) business-related publications, including academic, professional and trade journals.

    From this interface, users can also search for and access country economic reports, detailed company profiles, SWOT analyses, market research reports, and product reviews.

    Subjects covered include accounting, economics, finance, management and management information systems, marketing and international business.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost