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- Beilstein Crossfire
Libraries
- Coverage: (1980 - present)
- Beilstein and Gmelin chemistry databases providing structures, physical properties, reactions and literature quotations covering over 7 million organic and approximately 1 million inorganic and organometallic compounds.
- Best's Key Rating Guide
- Coverage: (2004 - present)
- Provides ratings, financial size categories and selected financial data for prominent insurance companies. NOTE: Available from Media & Reserves, Cabell Library 3rd floor.
- BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
VCU
- Coverage: (1973 - present)
- Citations and abstracts of books, conference proceedings, dissertations, catalogs, and journal articles. Covers European and American art from antiquity to the present.
- Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
VCU
- Coverage: (1983 - present)
- Citations to articles in English-language periodicals; abstracts and full text coverage for selected journals. Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional. About 45 % of the focus is on agriculture.
- Biological & Medical Sciences Databases from CSA Internet Database Service
VCU
- Search multiple databases in CSA Subject Area.
- Biological Sciences
VCU
- Coverage: (1982 - present)
- Abstracts of a wide variety of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
- Biology Digest
VCU
- Coverage: (1989 - present)
- About 20,000 abstracts of life sciences literature; designed primarily for undergraduates. Purpose is to provide information on the latest developments in biological research.
- BIOSIS Previews
VCU
- Coverage: (1969 - present)
- The foremost reference database in the life sciences; provides abstracts of literature in biological and biomedical areas. Includes Biological Abstracts, Biological Abstracts/RRM, and BioResearch Index.
- BIOSIS Previews Archive
VCU
- Coverage: (1926-1968)
- Archives for the foremost reference database in the life sciences.
- Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts
VCU
- Coverage: (1982 - present)
- Bibliographic coverage of research, applications, regulatory developments, and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering.
- Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts
- Coverage: (2001 - present)
- An innovative online literary and arts journal, Blackbird features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and the arts -- as well as interviews with writers and artists. Sponsored by the VCU Department of English and New Virginia Review, Inc.
- BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
- Set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether the query is protein or DNA.
- BNA Tax Management Portfolios: US Income Series
VCU
- Comprehensive federal tax resource. Includes research, guidance and implementation tools. Provides expert analysis, practice tools, source documents, news and commentary.
- Book Review Digest Plus
VCU
- Coverage: 1983 - present
- Citations for more than 1 million reviews of fiction and non-fiction books. Includes more than 200,000 review excerpts and full-text reviews.
- Books In Print with Reviews
VCU
- Bowker's global database of books currently published or distributed in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Includes TOC's, First Chapters, and author biographies.
- Business Source Complete
VCU
- Coverage: (1886 - present)
- Bibliographic and full text content from scholarly business journals and other sources including peer-reviewed business publications. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.