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BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Provides full-text access to articles, books, theses, images, and additional resources from open access repositories around the world.
Bertolt Brechts Werke
A collection of poetry, drama and major critical writings by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956). Includes brief notes on each work.
Bible in English
Contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher
Provides access to a collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals covering several areas in science, technology, and medicine.
BioOne
Full-text access to bioscience research literature with an emphasis on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Black Drama, 1850-Present
Contains the full text of 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. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore: African, African American, and Diaspora
A comprehensive collection of short stories and folktales from Africa and the African Diaspora, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. Also includes complete runs of selected literary magazines, such as Kyk-Over-Al and The Beacon as well as many early North American black-owned and edited journals and newspapers.
Black Studies in Video
This collection brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. At completion, the collection will contain 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Black Thought and Culture
Includes the full text of non-fiction works of major African Americans leaders-teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures. Works include monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews, published between the colonial period and 1975.
Black Women Writers
Provides full text access to fiction, poetry, and essays by black women from North America, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean; dates of the material range from the 1700s to contemporary works.
Books24x7 IT Pro
Now called Skillsoft Books
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library
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. The majority of this collection is in Portuguese, with additional content in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Latin. Includes access to Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Pamphlets, and Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs.
Note: The ability to cross-search multiple primary source collections from the provider Gale is now available on the Gale Primary Sources platform.
Brevier Legislative Reports
Provides access to reports of the legislative history of the Indiana General Assembly between 1858 and 1887.
Britannica Online

See Encyclopedia Britannica Online.

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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
A collection of published letters and diaries from approximately 500 women, spanning from 1500 to 1900. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.
British Library Newspapers (1732-1950)
A full-text digital archive of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society.
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British Literary Manuscripts Online
An online archive that provides access to the poems, plays, novels, diaries letters, and more of many major British authors, written between 1660-1900. This collection also provides access to rare primary source materials from the medieval and early modern periods, c.1100 to 1660, including letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings and commonplace books.
British Periodicals Online
Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
Bureau of Economic Analysis Digital Library
Provides national, international, regional, and industry estimates from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.
See also Survey of Current Business.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Provides statistical information on the wages, earnings, and benefits of workers in the United States.
Business Expert Press Digital Library
Provides access to a collection of ebooks published by Business Expert Press in economics and finance in 2013.
Business First of Louisville

Comprehensive coverage of business news from a local, regional, and national perspective.

This database is only available to IU Southeast students, faculty, and staff.
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Business Source Elite (formerly Business Source Complete)

Provides full-text access to scholarly and popular business journals. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Additional content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
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