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| BabelScores: Contemporary Music Online | French-based, internationally focused resource promoting new music composed during the last 40 years. Offers complete digitized scores (issued by publishing houses or self-published) and streamed audio recordings of works by several hundred active composers to form the largest continually growing online music library of contemporary music. Features a virtual music-score reader with a zoom and full-screen options plus biographies of the composers. |
| Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) | One of the 12 subfiles of Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, and separately searchable. Provides medically oriented coverage in bacteriology, with topics ranging from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. Includes clinical findings as well as pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics |
| Balance of Payment Statistics | |
| Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | |
| Baltimore Sun (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | For 1990+ see the Catalog |
| Bar Ilan's Judaic Library | Full text of the Bible and its major commentaries, the Babylonian Talmud with Rashi's commentary and Tosafot, the Jerusalem Talmud, the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries, Midrashim, hundreds of books of Responsa, and the Talmudic Encyclopedia. |
| Basic Sources of International Economic Statistics | Research guide to international economic statistics. |
| Basic Sources of United States Economic Statistics | Research guide to economic statistics for the United States. |
| Basilica Online | Searchable online edition of the Basilica text and its scholia, as edited by H. J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda, and N. van der Wal. |
| Basque Database | Information about Basque topics. Indexed formats include articles, books, chapters of edited books, dissertations, and other publications. Also includes Basque-related videos and DVDs, musical recordings, maps, and other media. |
| BBC Landmark Video Collection | From the depths of the oceans to the Antarctic ice sheet, from a first-hand view of evolution in animals and plants to Cretaceous Alaska and far-flung corners of the globe, the BBC Landmark Video Collection is a groundbreaking, HD view into our natural world. Through cutting edge cinematic techniques and thousands of days in the field with never-before seen wildlife, you can now experience breathtaking natural events in all their splendor. |
| BBC Monitoring: International Reports | Provides news and information based on round-the-clock monitoring of radio, TV, press, internet and news agency sources around the world. Expert selection from an extensive range of international news sources enables us to provide insightful and reliable coverage of political, economic, security and media news. Reports are translated into English from more than 100 languages, showing not only what the media are reporting but how they are telling the story. Included in Nexis UNI. |
| Benaki Museum Library | On-line catalog to the holdings of the Benaki Museum Library in Athens |
| Benedict de Spinoza: Opera | |
| Benezit Dictionary of Artists (part of Oxford Art Online) | |
| Berg Fashion Library and Fashion Photography Archive | An essential resource for fashion and costume. Berg provides access to the 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Oxford UP, 2010), and many other fashion ebooks, exhibition-related content, bibliographies, images, and more. The Fashion Photography Archive (1970s-2000) contains photographs, articles, biographies, and videos with major input from Valerie Steele, a notable scholar and curator. |
| BERI | Comprehensive ratings, analyses, and forecasts for over 140 countries. Includes Quality of Workforce Index (QWI). QWI for 1985, 1990-1999, 2005-2021 are on the DSS server. |
| Berkeley: Works | |
| Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall | |
| Bertolt Brechts Werke | Based on the Jubilaumsausgabe/Suhrkamp edition. Edited by Werner Hecht, Wolfgang Jeske, and Jan Knopf. |
| Bianjiang lishi dili = Historical Geography of (China’s) Borderlands | The database collects full-text historical textual material on the Chinese borderlands dating from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic in the punctuated editions by Zhonghua shuju. It also gives access to Republican monographs, periodicals and government gazettes on the border regions. |
| Bible in English | |
| Bibliografia Mesoamericana | Comprehensive and continually updated bibliographic dataset of the published literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica. Content includes archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines. This resource is jointly supervised by John Weeks of the Museum Library of the University of Pennsylvania and Sandra Noble of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI). |
| Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism | |
| Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale | |
| Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale | |
| Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaft | Indexes monographs, conference proceedings, journals, book reviews covering works by and about German authors as well as treatises on the German language |
| Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology | Cumulative index of worldwide current publications in all fields of micropaleontology (the study of microscopic fossils). |
| Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database | Indexes the periodical literature on Africa, with subject, country and region, and author indexing. |
| 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. Compiled for the Bibliographical Society of America. NOTE: This resouce has been discontinued by the provider, but the information is still available as part of LION (Literature Online). Click the "access resource" button below to go to LION. |
| Bibliography of Arabic Books Online | Provides bibliographic information about most books published in Arabic before 1960. |
| Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) | Records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide in Western languages. Includes chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, etc. |
| Bibliography of British and Irish History | Authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. |
| Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America. | Citations to books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and government documents. Formerly entitled "Bibliography of Native North Americans". |
| Bibliography of Linguistic Literature - Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur | Provides citations to journal articles, articles of conference proceedings, and other collective works as well as to monographs, dissertations, and Festschriften in general linguistics and all its sub-disciplines. |
| Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving | Searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European languages on slavery and slaving, worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times. It includes all known print materials published since 1900 in scholarly formats, as well as digital scholarly journals, recent unpublished presentations at academic conferences, professional historical sites, and major museum exhibitions and catalogs. |
| Bibliography of the Hebrew Book | Comprehensive bibliography of all books printed in the Hebrew Language between 1473 and 1960. Includes over 120,000 titles and 13,500 authors. |
| Bibliography of the History of Art | Indexes and abstracts articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. BHA, now defunct but available via the Getty, was preceded by and includes RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art). BHA was continued by the International Bibliography of Art in 2008. See also OpenBibArt: History of Art Bibliography. |
| Bibliography on cold regions science and technology | Provides coverage of Antarctic research and exploration and cold regions engineering and physical science information . |
| Bibliorossica | |
| Bibliotheca Scriptorum Latinorum | |
| Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina | Full text--minus forewords, textual apparatus, and indices--of editions of texts from the Latin series of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum. |
| Bijutsu Shinpo | Journal of modern Japanese art and modern culture, not exclusively focused on the art of Japan, but also treating Western art. Index searchable by keyword. Accessible within the JapanKnowledge Lib (click on login). |
| BioCyc Database Collection | A collection of 13075 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for understanding their data. These tools for are used for navigating, visualizing, and analyzing the underlying databases, and for analyzing omics data. The BioCyc website provides a suite of software tools for database searching and visualization, for omics data analysis, and for comparative genomics and comparative pathway questions |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | Digital library providing open access to over 45,000 titles of digitized biodiversity, natural history, and taxonomic literature worldwide. |
| Biographical Archive of the Classical World Online | |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index | Combined index that identifies 15+million entries in over 1,000 biographical sources. International coverage. |
| Biography Index | Listing of biographical content from periodicals. Includes interviews and profiles of history-makers. |
| Biography Reference Bank | Combines the in-depth, original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, plus the periodicals coverage of Biography Index, full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). |
| Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) | Includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases with a mix of abstracting and indexing, plus full-text including animal behavior, bioengineering, biogechnology, molecular biology, ecology, virology, and more. |
| Biomedical Reference Collection: Expanded | Designed for doctors, research scientists, students and clinical specialists, this database provides more than 200 full text journals. |
| BioMedProtocols (currently known as Springer Protocols) | |
| BioOne | |
| BioRender | BioRender is a web application that can be used to create scientific figures, diagrams, and illustrations from a scientifically accurate image library. Account (free) required. |
| BIOSIS Citation Index | |
| BIOSIS Previews: Biological Abstracts | With more than 13,000,000 records from publications in over 90 countries, Biosis Previews is the most comprehensive index of journals, meetings, conferences, and symposia in the life sciences. Although this is not a full-text article database, our PULinks system conveniently links you to the full-text |
| Birds of North America Online | Comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. BNA is an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings of bird songs and calls. |
| Birds of the World | Birds of the World engages the global ornithological community to create the most in-depth, science-based content to illustrate the life histories of birds and bird families. |
| Black Abolitionist Papers | Primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. |
| Black Drama Third Edition | Full text of plays written by dramatists from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, and detailed information about productions, theaters, production companies, and other ephemera related to the plays. |
| Black Life in America | The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media. |
| Black Periodicals Index (IIBP) | |
| Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora | Full text of 760 stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. |
| Black Studies Center | Scholarly essays and access to articles in Black Studies journals. Combines the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and the full-text of The Chicago Defender, an important Black newspaper, from 1935-1975 |
| Black Studies in Video | Brings together documentaries, interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains over 500 hours of film covering history, politics, art and culture, gender relationships, and social and economic issues. |
| Black Thought and Culture | Full-text collection of published non-fiction works is included, as well as interviews, journal articles, letters, and other materials of leading African-Americans. Biographical essays by leading scholars and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database are also featured. |
| Black Women Writers | Works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. |
| BLFI | |
| Bloomberg (Princeton only) | Real-time and historical pricing, fundamental data, and business news. |
| Bloomberg Businessweek Archive | For more recent issues, see the Catalog. |
| Bloomberg.com | Access to Bloomberg news via web browser or app after your account has been created. ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS: Visit https://www.bloomberg.com/account/create-account Create an account with an @princeton.edu or @pppl.gov email address and click "SIGN UP". This will trigger a verification code to be sent via email to the entered email address. Confirm your account by entering the 8 digit verification code that was sent to your @princeton.edu or @pppl.gov email address Finish registration by entering a password for your account. |
| Bloomsbury Music and Sound (formerly Bloomsbury Popular Music) | Provides scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present day, by cross-searching the 14-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World; all 120+ volumes of the 33 1/3 book series (providing in-depth analysis of influential albums); an expanding range of scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s Popular Music Studies; and titles in the new 33 1/3 Global book series. This resource explores the historical origins and cultural impact of popular music, influential artists and albums, local music scenes and subcultures, musical form, instruments, the workings of the music industry, and the social, political, and economic context of different musical genres. |
| Bloomsbury Popular Music (now called Bloomsbury Music and Sound) | Provides scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present day, by cross-searching the 14-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World; all 120+ volumes of the 33 1/3 book series (providing in-depth analysis of influential albums); an expanding range of scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s Popular Music Studies; and titles in the new 33 1/3 Global book series. This resource explores the historical origins and cultural impact of popular music, influential artists and albums, local music scenes and subcultures, musical form, instruments, the workings of the music industry, and the social, political, and economic context of different musical genres. |
| BNA Labor Plus | Union data for elections, contracts, work stoppages, settlement summaries, and unfair labor practice charges. Primarily 1990s+. Includes the Daily Labor Report (December 2009+). |
| BoardEx | Extensive data on the boards of publicly listed and notable private companies in all regions of the world |
| Book Review Digest Plus | English language reviews of fiction, nonfiction, social science and general science books. The reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media. |
| Book Review Index Plus | Guide to book reviews that includes more than 6.7 million reviews on more than 2.5 million titles. |
| Books in Print | Information on publications, including in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos. Provides book reviews. |
| Border and Migration Studies Online | Primary sources, maps, videos, and multimedia providing historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; and Thailand. |
| Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | For 1980+, see the Catalog. |
| Bowker's Global Books in Print | |
| Boyle: Correspondence | |
| BP Statistical Review of World Energy | Annual report from British Petroleum on the statistical review of world energy. |
| Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library | Extensive searchable database of books and pamphlets from the personal library of the Brazilian diplomat, historian, and journalist Manoel de Oliveira Lima, covering a wide spectrum of topics in Brazilian history from the early colonial period to the early decades of the 20th century. |
| Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies | Combines records from the International Medieval Bibliography, Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale and International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance. Together they provide access to 14 centuries of European history from 300 to 1700. |
| BREPOLS Online | Electronic books in the humanities from Brepols Publishers. |
| Bridgeman Education Database | From the producers of the Bridgeman Art Library for the commercial market, this image database contains more than 300,000 objects and covers all media, including photography, fine art, engravings, sculpture, architecture, archaeology, ethnography, history, science & medicine, decorative arts and artifacts. |
| Brill Primary Sources | Brill Primary Source content available to Princeton University. |
| Brill Reference Works | |
| Brill Scholarly Editions | Brill Scholarly Edition content avialable to Princeton University. |
| Brill's Encyclopedia of China | Basic introductory encyclopedia to (largely modern) China. |
| Brill's Jacoby Online | Online edition of F. Jacoby's monumental Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-V, providing Greek text, English translation, commentary and bibliography. |
| Brill's New Pauly | English version of an important German encyclopedia of the ancient world. Divided into 2 sections: Antiquity, which covers the ancient world of Greece and Rome, and the Classical Tradition, which covers the history of classical scholarship. Also available in German. |
| Brill: Books Sales Catalogues Online | Digital edition of book sales catalogues printed in the Dutch Republic before 1801. |
| Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online | Encyclopedia on the main aspects of Hindu traditions. Includes all essays from the printed edition and is regularly updated with new articles. |
| Britannica Escolar | Spanish-language site designed for younger students and those learning the language. |
| Britannica Moderna | Comprehensive Spanish-language general encyclopedia, including the Merriam‑Webster's Spanish‑English Dictionary, an atlas, and timelines. |
| Britannica Spanish Reference Center | Portal to both the Enciclopedia Moderna and Britannica Escolar. |
| Britannica World Data Analyst | Provides quick comparisons, rankings, and snapshots of countries. |
| British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries | Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in diaries and letters. |
| British Architectural Library Catalogue Online | |
| British History Online | Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. |
| British Legal Sources in Firestone Library | |
| British Library General Catalogue | |
| British Library Newspapers | Consists of 2 major collections from the British Library which span 300 years of newspaper publishing in the U.K.—17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century Newspapers Provides a representative selection of papers from 17th-19th century Britain and includes national, regional and local newspapers from England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales. |
| British Literary Manuscripts Online c. 1120-1900 | Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. |
| British Online Archives | Provides online access to several collections on the history of the Atlantic world, from British archives. |
| British Periodicals | Searchable full-text and page images of several hundred British periodicals, primarily from the 19th century. |
| British Philosophy: 1600-1900 | |
| Broadway HD | |
| Brockelmann Online | Consists of both original volumes Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann, as well as the 3 supplement volumes, including the indexes. Offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. |
| Brockhaus-Duden Library Information Portal | |
| Bronte: Letters | |
| Bryn Mawr Classical Review | Full-text book reviews covering all aspects of classical scholarship. |
| Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA) | BDRC’s Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA) provides digital research tools and provides access to millions of pages of Buddhist texts contributed by BDRC and its many partners. |
| Buddhist Digital Resource Center (formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center) | Provides digitized copies of Buddhist texts in Tibetan and other Asian languages. |
| Building Types Online | Building Types Online draws from several Birkhäuser publications, including Detail magazine, to present drawings and images of modernist and contemporary architectural works. The approximately 850 case studies are documented with texts by authors who are experts in their fields with approximately 5,000 architectural drawings of high quality as well as 2,000 photographs of the buildings. |
| BuildingGreen Suite | Interdisciplinary resource featuring a rich array of media and information resources, including full-text access to Environmental Building News, the BuildingGreen Suite of online tools, GreenSpec directory of products, and the LEEDuser web tool. Also included is the High Performance Buildings Database (HPB) which provides case studies of projects ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods. These may be certified green projects, or simply projects that have one or more notable environmental features. |
| Bulletin of the International Seismological Centre | |
| Bungei Kurabu: Meiji-hen. Web-ban Nihon Kindai Bingakukan | A literary magazine published in 1895 integrating with several journals and run until 1933. Bungei Kurabu contains many literary works by Izumi Kyoka, Ozaki Koyo, Tayama Katai, Yamada Bimyo, Higuchi Ichiyo etc. as well as theaters, rakugo, and kodan. This database covers Meiji-hen from 1895 to 1912. |
| Bungei Shunju Archives | |
| Burning Glass - Labor Insight | Labor Insight provides job market data to enable the identification of opportunities for training programs, closer alignment of education and training initiatives with employer demand, and improved site selection and recruiting decisions. To access, please email Charissa Jefferson (charissaj@princeton.edu) |
| Business Abstracts with Full Text | English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals. |
| Business Environment Risk Intelligence | |
| Business Periodicals Index | |
| Business Source Elite | Full text for business journals. |
| Business USA | Data is also available on the DSS servers in SAS/CSV files BusinessUSA: (1997-2021) and in WRDS. |
| Byzantinische Zeitschrift | Cumulative bibliography of essays and monographs cited in Byzantinische Zeitschrift and its supplement. Covers the history of Byzantium. |
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