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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 Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
Search multiple databases in CSA Subject Area.
Biological Sciences  VCU Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
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 Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
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 Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
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 Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
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 Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (www.vivalib.org)
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.

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