Databases A-Z
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Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics (BOP/IIP)Economic transactions of national economies with the rest of the world.
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Balkan Insight
Current events coverage for nine countries in the Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.
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Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Access to the Baltimore Afro-American, one of the most widely circulated Black newspapers on the Atlantic coast. It was the first Black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
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Baltimore Sun (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The Baltimore Sun reported on pivotal issues and events of the 19th and early 20th centuries: immigration, the slave trade, commerce, the Civil War, Washington D.C. politics, Americana, and literature.
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Barron's (ProQuest Recent Newspapers)
Online version of Barron's, a weekly newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company.
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BASE
BASE is a search engine especially for academic web resources. It provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).
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BBC Horizon Collection
Access to the complete run of the BBC Horizon television program. Horizon reveals the science behind a broad range of topics, including astronomy, physics, math, the environment, disease, and more.
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BBC Landmark Video Collection
Access to BBC television programs on the natural world. Includes access to popular nature series, such as Planet Earth and Blue Planet.
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BBC Shakespeare plays
Streaming video of BBC Shakespeare Plays, featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent.
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BCC Research
Access to market research reports that cover life sciences, sensors, materials, environment and sustainability, commerce, and publishers. Provides the latest trends, opportunities, challenges, and innovations emerging within these landscapes.
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BDSL Online
Lists bibliographic information for nearly 400,000 monographs and articles in journals, newspapers, anthologies, and Festschriften dealing with German language and literature.
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Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements
Covering primarily the 1950s and 1960s, this resource provides access to primary source documents that focus on how ordinary citizens in the smaller communities viewed, participated in and lived through this historical era. When completed in 2025, the collection will include letters, general correspondence, logs, demonstration plan outlines, transportation logs and plans, meetings, worship services, photographs, newsletters, news reels, interviews and musical recordings from Black, Latine, Native American and Asian American Pacific Islander communities.
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BEP Collections
Business Expert Press (BEP) publishes eBooks for faculty and business students to conduct classroom learning and research.
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Berg Fashion Library
Collection of scholarly, multidisciplinary information on all aspects of dress and fashion worldwide, from prehistory to present day.
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Berghahn Open Anthro
Access to Berghahn e-journals in the field of Anthropology.
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Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall
Access to streaming video of over 700 concert videos from six decades. Also includes live broadcasts, films, documentaries, artist portraits, and interviews with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Please note: individual registration is required for access via apps on mobile devices and smart TVs. Users must revalidate their account once every 90 days by accessing via the IU Libraries and logging into their account.
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Bertolt Brechts Werke
The dramatic, poetical, and theoretical texts of Bertolt Brecht.
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BHA and RILA
BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material including articles from over 1,200 journals. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
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Bible in English
The Bible in English contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
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Bibliography of Arabic Books Online
Bibliographic database containing information about books published in Arabic before 1960. Includes over 86,000 bibliographical records from the National Library in Egypt, the British Library and the Library of Congress.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.
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Bibliography of British and Irish history
The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
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Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates
The BFV Online provides interactive access to the SVP’s Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates series. Using the BFV Online, users can specify a search criterion, and receive a formatted list of matching literature references.
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Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
Bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. Includes more than 350,000 citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia.
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Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano
Access to freely available digital materials related to Ibero-American cultural heritage. Established by the Association of National Libraries of Ibero-America (ABINIA) to create a single source for access to the digital resources of the participating libraries.
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Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
Freely accessible portal to the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica's digital collections. Includes books, manuscripts, music scores, photographs, engravings, cartographic material, sound recordings, and magazines.
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Biblioteca Nacional Digital Brasil
Access to Biblioteca Nacional's digital archive. Officially launched in 2006, BNDigital integrates digital collections, exhibitions, and thematic projects, in partnership with national and international institutions. Includes over 2,000,000 freely accessible documents.
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Big Ten Open Books
Big Ten Open Books is a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first collection is on the subject of Gender and Sexuality studies. Participating presses are Indiana University Press, Michigan State University Press, Northwestern University Press, Purdue University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of Wisconsin Press.
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BioCyc
BioCyc is a collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), plus software tools for understanding their data. PLEASE NOTE: users need to create individual accounts to maintain access.
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Biography (Gale in Context)
Biography is built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) provides more than 20 million biographical citations on more than 6 millions persons, living and deceased, from all fields of activity, covering more than 2,000 years of human history.
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Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)
This biographical database offers in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index and specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. It provides full-text articles, images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.
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Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
Access to audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks, and case studies presented by experts in biomedicine and life sciences.
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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
Indexes journals covering topics in medicine including clinical medicine, nursing dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Offers some full-text.
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BioOne Complete
A collection of full-text journals, mostly from small societies and non-commercial publishers, focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
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BIOSIS Citation Index
This database includes citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. It is interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology.
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BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews combines journal content from Biological Abstracts with supplemental, non-journal coverage from Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). It includes original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. It also covers references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms.
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Birds of the World
Reference and research database featuring comprehensive life histories of more than 10,800 bird species and deep overviews of all 249 bird families. Includes details on appearance, taxonomy, habitat, diet, breeding, behavior, and more. Includes access to curated media galleries showing the bird throughout its life cycle (photos, videos, and sound recordings from the Macaulay Library).
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Bizminer
Access to industry and area specific financial benchmarks for over 5,000 industries and market statistics for more than 9,000.
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Black Authors, 1556-1922: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Contains more than 550 works by black authors from the Americas, Europe and Africa, expertly compiled by the curators of Afro-Americana Imprints collection. Genres include personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, and musical compositions.
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Black Drama
Full text access to more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes 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.
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Black Economic Empowerment: the National Negro Business League
Primary source documents from the National Negro Business League, a business organization founded in 1900 by Booker T. Washington. The League included small African American business owners, doctors, farmers, craftsmen, and other professionals. Its goal was to allow business to put economic development at the forefront of getting African-American equality in America.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th-century fight for freedom.
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Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle
Primary source documents related to the Black Liberation Army (BLA), an underground, black nationalist-Marxist organization that operated from 1970 to 1981.
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Black Short Fiction and Folklore
Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together 82,000 pages and more than 11,000 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present. The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors. Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.
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Black Studies in Video
Black Studies in Video is an award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together documentaries, interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
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Black Studies Periodicals Database
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
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Black Thought and Culture
Collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.
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Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, Black women needed to create their own identities and movements. The collection documents that effort, presenting the woman’s perspective on the diversity and development of Black people generally, and in particular the works document the evolution of Black feminism.
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Bloomberg Businessweek Archive
Full text issues of Bloomberg Businessweek, 1929-2000.
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Bloomberg Professional
Powerful and flexible platform for financial professionals who need real-time data, news and analytics. PLEASE NOTE: This resource is available only at the Business/SPEA Library and requires advanced booking. Book a time to access Bloomberg Professional.
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Bloomington Faculty Council Minutes
The Bloomington Faculty Council Minutes collection contains meeting minutes and accompanying circulars produced by representative body of elected members from the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Minutes are available online on an on-going basis.
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Bloomsbury Architecture Library
Resource for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design.
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Bloomsbury Collections
Ebooks in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Bloomsbury Video Library
Access to masterclasses, documentaries, interviews. Includes thousands of videos from top artists and producers.
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BMC Supporter Membership
An evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering, and medicine. Also leads to link for staff and students at IUB to receive a 15% discount on the processing charges of articles accepted for publication in BioMed Central journals.
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Book Citation Index
Multidisciplinary index of monographs and books-in-series in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes access to both Book Citation Index - Science (BKCI-S) and Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH).
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Book History Online
Book History Online (BHO) is a bibliography in the field of book and library history. It provides a survey of scholarly publications written from a historical perspective.
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Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Provides selected extracts of book reviews as well as citations to additional reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
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Books in Print
Bibliographic database of books in print, electronic, audio, and multimedia titles. It provides a look at what’s active, what’s out of print, and what’s forthcoming from publishers and distributors in the U.S.
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Border and Migration Studies Online
Provides access to primary documents, images, and video covering worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico, the European Union, Afghanistan, Israel, Turkey, The Congo, Argentina, China, Thailand, and others.
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Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Boston Globe.
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Brasiliana Museus
Open platform that brings together digitized collections from various museums in Brazil, sharing collective memory, history, and the diversity of Brazilian cultural heritage. Encompasses a wide variety of collections, covering different regions of the country, historical periods and areas of study.
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Brazil Cordel Literature Web Archive
Digitized collection of Brazilian chapbooks, known as literatura de cordel. This web archive collection is comprised of sites or blogs containing full-text cordel, video or audio clips of repentista performances, and news about cordel-related events.
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Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture
Spanning the “long” 19th century, this collection covers topics such as colonialism, the Brazilian independence period, slavery and abolition, the Catholic Church, Indigenous peoples, immigration, ecology, agriculture, economic development, medicine and public health, international relations, and Brazilian and Portuguese literature.
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Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias
Combines access to the Lexikon des Mittelalters with a supplement, the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages. The Lexikon des Mittelalters online contains some 37,000 signed articles and covers all aspects of medieval studies for the period 300 to 1500.
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Brepolis Publications
Home to all Brepolis online projects, including bibliographies, dictionaries, and indexes. Aimed at the international community of humanities scholars.
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Brevier Legislative Reports
The Reports, published biennially from 1858 to 1887, are verbatim reports of the legislative proceedings and history of the Indiana General Assembly during those years.
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Bridgeman Education
Online digital library of images sourced from over 8,000 locations covering the world’s major museums, art collections, and historical sites. Includes access to over 3 million images, all copyright-cleared for educational use.
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Brill Online Books and Journals
An index to journals and e-books published by Brill with full text access to content licensed by Indiana University, Bloomington Libraries. Subject areas include the humanities, international law, and biology.
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Brill's Medieval Reference Library
Access to three Brill encyclopedias - Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450.
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Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
Unrivalled reference work for the ancient world, including fifteen volumes on Greco-Roman antiquity, and five volumes on the Classical Tradition.
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Collection of British and Irish women's personal writings spanning over 400 years.
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British Library Catalogues and Collections
Provides access to the catalog of the Library's major holdings, developed over 250 years and containing over 150 million items. Also includes access to digital collections, subject guides, and collection guides.
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British Library Newspapers
Comprehensive digital access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles.
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British Literary Manuscripts Online
Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.
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British Newsreels, 1911-1930
Supplied by the British Film Institute and Imperial War Museums, this resource provides access to a large collection of early 20th century newsreels covering everything from everyday interests, such as sport and fashion, to coverage of key events, such as the First World War, the Suffragette Movement, and the establishment of the Irish Free State.
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British Periodicals
This resource offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th century through to the early 21st.
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Broadcasting America
Access to primary source material chronicling the expansion of radio and television technology, and the rise of mass media empires in America. Includes access to the papers of David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and other industry papers. The bulk of the material spans the 1920s to the 1970s, representing the decades of David Sarnoff’s career at RCA. Some additional content covers pre-1920s broadcasting developments, and the final years of RCA before its sale in 1986.
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Broadway on Demand Collection
Access to live Broadway theater performances, including musicals, plays, and contemporary dance performances. Also includes behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, and masterclasses.
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Brockelmann Online
Brockelmann Online consists of both original volumes Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as the three supplement volumes, including the indexes.
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BrowzineBrowZine allows users to browse scholarly journals on computers or mobile devices. With the BrowZine app you can add your favorite journals to your personal bookshelf and save articles to read later. The BrowZine app and web version are available to all IU Bloomington students, faculty, and staff.
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BTAA GeoportalProvides access to geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps.
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Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA)
Collection of Tibetan literature with links to digital archives and initiatives
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Building Types Online
Resource for the study and practice of architectural design, based on Birkhäuser's professional architecture books. Includes a large international collection of contemporary buildings, from housing and offices to museums, schools and other building types.
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Business Day (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Daily newspaper, published weekdays, covering sport, travel, books, arts and entertainment from a business-minded perspective. Business Day launched in 1985, the year the African National Congress met with white South African business leaders for the first time. Billed as “the national newspaper for decision makers,” the paper’s mission was to report on corporate news, economic policy, corporate governance and financial markets.
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Business Source Complete
Regional, national and international business, financial, banking and industry publications.