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Databases
BCIN, the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
Publication coverage: 1955 - present
Comprehensive source for information on the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.Bibliography of American Literature (BAL)
Publication coverage: 1776 - 1930
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Publication coverage: 1900- ; subject coverage from 55 B.C. onwards
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth from the Roman period to the present day.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Publication coverage: 1973 to 2007
Comprehensive index to European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Abstracts books, articles, conference proceedings, essays, dissertations, exhibition and dealers’ catalogues. Covers painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture, crafts, decorative, applied, graphic, folk and popular arts. Citations with abstracts
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available to a global audience through open access principles. In partnership with the Internet Archive and through local digitization efforts, the BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature, representing over 120,000 titles and over 200,000 volumes.
Publication coverage: Varies by publication
BioOne is a nonprofit publisher that aims to make scientific research more accessible through a growing portfolio of products including its full-text aggregation, BioOne Complete, and open access journal, Elementa: Science of the AnthropocenePublication coverage: Some coverage back to 1998 but indexing is primarily 2000 - present
bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
bioRxiv accepts preprints of articles covering all aspects of research in the life sciences. When posting an article, the author assigns it to one of the following categories: Animal Behavior and Cognition, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Clinical Trials, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Epidemiology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Paleontology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, Plant Biology, Scientific Communication and Education, Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology, Zoology.
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New / Trial Databases
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription:
- Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
Indexes over 500 journals with some full-text coverage (of over 160 journals and books) covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. - Mental Measurements Yearbook
A comprehensive guide to testing instruments, covering 7500 commercially available tests in many categories. - Oxford Handbooks Online
Content published online in 2017-2018 is now available.