Databases
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Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) (ProQuest)
Contains topics ranging from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. The journal provides access to far-reaching clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.
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Banking Information Source (ProQuest)
This database enables you to search essential banking industry publications for information about the financial services industry, banking and industry trends.
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BBC Landmark Video Collection (ASP)
From the depths of the oceans to the Antarctic ice cap, from a firsthand view of evolution in animals and plants to Cretaceous Alaska and far-flung corners of the globe, the BBC Landmark Video Collection is your groundbreaking exclusive HD view into our natural world. Through access to cutting-edge series like Planet Earth and Blue Planet, your classrooms and students can now experience breathtaking natural events like never before.
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BBC Shakespeare Plays
37 Shakespeare plays performed by some of the most distinguished and recognized Shakespearean actors. Closed captioned, and chaptered by acts within each play. Able to stream to mobile devices.
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists (Oxford)
The Benezit Dictionary of Artists is now available online for the first time via Oxford Art Online. With nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. Entries are clear and concise, and Benezit contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies. In addition to its outstanding scope and depth, two features in particular make Benezit unique among art reference works: its superb coverage of obscure artists and the inclusion of images of artists signatures, monograms, and stamps.
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Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library is the only resource to provide integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. It includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a vast image bank, extra reference resources and more.
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Bible in English (990-1970)
Contains 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale’s translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and the New Testament.
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Biblical Archaeology Society
The Biblical Archaeology Society strives to offer the most up-to-date information on the archaeology of the Bible and of the ancient world.
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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
BDSL is an index to studies on German literature and language (all periods) covers the publications from 1985 to the present. A paper edition going back to 1945 is also available in Humanities Reference at HUM REF PT 3 .B5x.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
An Asian Studies database. This database indexes books and articles from around the world on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia. Coverage is from 1971 to the present.
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Bibliography of Linguistic Literature
BLLDB is the online version of the Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLL). It is one of the most important sources of bibliographical information for general as well as English, German and Romance linguistics. Years of coverage run from 1971 to the present, making this a good complement to Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA).
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BioCyc
The BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) provides a reference on the genomes, metabolic pathways, and (in some cases) regulatory networks of thousands of sequenced organisms.
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Biography Reference Source (EBSCO)
More than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
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BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research
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Biomedical Engineering Lectures
A digital library of "lectures" on biomedical engineering, from the atom and molecule to large diagnostic equipment. The authors selected to write the lectures are leading experts on the subject who have extensive background in theory, application and design. Each lecture covers fundamental principles in a unified manner, develops underlying concepts needed for sequential material, and progresses to more advanced topics. Computer software and multimedia, when appropriate and available, is included for simulation, computation, visualization and design. The lectures are organized by series and content is provided by downloadable PDF files.
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Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection (HS Talks)
Alternate title:HSTalks.This collection of specially prepared animated audio visual presentations from Henry Stewart Talks is regularly updated and growing with over 1,500 talks from leading scientific experts, including Nobel Laureates.
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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic (EBSCO)
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition offers journals which cover virtually every area of medical study. Topics include: clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. Includes over 100 full-text journals.
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BioOne
A Biological Sciences database. This database includes major research journals in the biological sciences. Full-text articles available for nearly 70 peer reviewed journals. Coverage is from 1998 to the present.
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Biotechnology Research Abstracts (ProQuest)
Covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, and wide-ranging environmental developments.
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Birds of North America Online
The Birds of North America is a comprehensive reference collaboration by the American Ornithologists’ Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Academy of Natural Science. This reference covers the life histories of 716 North American bird species and including illustrations, audio clips, and videos.
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BizMiner
BizMiner is a leading online provider of industry financial analysis and market research.
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Black Drama (ASP)
Black Drama from Alexander Street Press contains approximately 1200 plays by 215 playwrights, together with 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. Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area. Black Drama uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
The first two modules of ProQuest History Vault offer all levels of researchers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children, who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. From the founding of the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs in the last decade of the 19th Century to the riots that followed the verdict in the Rodney King police brutality case in the last decade of the 20th century, along the way researchers will encounter documentation on subjects like the Great Migration, the East St. Louis Riot of 1917, the activities of members of the Federal Council on Negro Affairs during the New Deal, the March on Washington Movement during World War II, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the 1963 March on Washington, and the protests in Selma, Alabama, that inspired the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Black Thought and Culture (ASP)
Black Thought and Culture contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material.
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Black Women in America
Women such as Venus and Serena Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Carol Moseley Braun, Ruth Simmons, and Ann Fudge have become household names for their remarkable contributions to sports, politics, academia, and business. In nearly 600 entries, Black Women in America celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history and highlights their ongoing contributions in America today.
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Black Women Writers (ASP)
With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. Presenting works from many different countries in three continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of black womens struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues that are, together, unique to this literature.
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BLASTN
Searches for sequence homology between your sequence and those in the databases. BLASTN will perform search in DNA sequences; BLASTX will translate your sequence in all 6 frames and perform a search in protein sequences.
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Bloomberg Tax (formerly called BNA Tax and Accounting)
Alternate title: Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) Tax Management Library, BNA Tax and Accounting. Restricted to BYU accounting faculty and students. Includes income portfolios, estates, gifts & trust portfolios, daily tax report highlights, tax insights and commentary, Tax Management Memorandum, and primary tax sources such as Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, legislation and much more. This database requires patrons to re-register their account every semester. If it asks for a login after clicking the link, come back to this page and click this link again.
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Bloomberg Terminal [at Social Sciences Desk]
Provides both current and historical activity on stocks and other securities for both domestic and international companies. BLOOMBERG also monitors government bonds, T-bills, etc. Available at Social Science Help Desk. Updated daily.
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Bloomsbury Design Library
Bloomsbury Design Library provides cutting-edge scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. It offers reference and book content, alongside a rich selection of museum object images. Its coverage includes graphic, product and industrial design, and important themes such as sustainability, globalisation and design futures. Users can also discover a vast array of content on crafts and making, ceramics and art history. It will support both students and academics by allowing them to explore the theory, history and context of influential design schools, people, periods, places, and disciplines.
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BNA Human Resources Library
Bloomberg BNA’s Human Resources Library provides practical, comprehensive, and timely coverage of workplace issues of interest to HR professionals, consultants, and attorneys. The service provides news, analysis, tools, and research aids to help employers comply with federal and state employment laws and regulations. If it asks for a login after clicking the link, come back to this page and click this link again.
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Bridgeman Education
Bridgeman Education is a complete visual resource offering over 1,000,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilisations.
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Brill Databases
The green unlocked icons show the Brill databases available to BYU.
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Brill Open Access Content
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Brills Digital Library of World War I
Brill’s Digital Library of World War I is an online resource that contains over 700 encyclopedia entries plus 250 peer-reviewed articles of transnational and global historical perspectives on significant topics of World War I.
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Brill's New Pauly Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World
Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World is the best encyclopedia in English for classical studies. It covers both the ancient world and the reception of classics in the modern world.
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Britannica Online
Britannica Online is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative information databases on the Internet. It contains three encyclopedias, Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia. Itis continually updated to provide the most current information possible. Access to over 150 full-text journals is included at no additional cost with subscriptions to Britannica Online. Britannica Online features include: Over 73,000 articles from the printed Encyclopedia Britannica including more than 8,500 articles that are not found in the print set, plus 7,000 articles from the Britannica Books of the Year. Links to over 300,000 related sites on the Internet, selected for content by Britannica editors. Over 17,000 illustrations, maps and graphics. Thousands of sounds, animations and video clips covering topics ranging from rainforests to the Holocaust.
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (ASP)
A Historical Primary Source database. This database includes diaries and letters from British and Irish women. All types of women’s diaries are included. Features the writings of famous as well as “ordinary” women of the time period. Covers 300 years of personal writings.
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British Library Online Newspaper Archive (Gale)
This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
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British Literary Manuscripts (Gale)
Explore a digitized collection of manuscripts of British authors that includes poems, plays, novels, diaries, and more.
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British Newsreels, 1911-1930
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British Periodicals (PQ)
Hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
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British Politics and Society (Gale)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): British Politics and Society includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the long nineteenth century. Invaluable for historical scholarship, the archive includes a range of rare works that offer new avenues for research.
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British Theatre, Music, and Literature (Gale)
British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. Covering more than a century, British Theatre, Music, and Literature is without equal as a resource for 19th century scholars. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. This unparalleled collection provides a detailed look at the state of the British art world with, for example, not only manuscripts and compositions, but also documents such as personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes, and financial records, offering scholars an unmatched glimpse into the inner workings of the arts world and life in Victorian Britain.
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British War Diaries
British War Diaries from World War I covering the years 1914-1919. Materials scanned from the Imperial War Museum London in 2012. 13,500 digitized images.
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Broadcasting America
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BroadwayHD (ASP)
Filmed live theatre straight from Broadway
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Brockelmann in English: The History of Arabic Literary Culture (Brill)
Bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. It is divided in chronologically organized sections, which are subdivided by literary genre.
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Brockelmann in German (Brill)
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Business Cases (SAGE)
Access to more than 4,200 authoritative cases from over 100 countries. SAGE curates interdisciplinary cases on in-demand subjects such as entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, social enterprise, and more.
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Business Expert Press ebooks
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Business Source Premier - Enhanced Business Searching (EBSCO)
This alternative search interface for the Business Source Premier database makes it easier to find company and industry profiles, country reports, and market research reports. Unlike the traditional interface, it does not allow for searching across multiple EBSCO databases simultaneously.
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Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
Business Source Ultimate is a collection of popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review. Business Source Premier covers accounting, banking, finance, international business, management, marketing, real estate, regional studies, sales, trade and technology.
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BYU DNA Sequencing Center Resources
The DNA Sequencing Center (DNASC) at Brigham Young University has also created an online resource page.
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BYU Library Catalog
Only available on-campus. Library catalog keyword search.
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BYU Library Streaming Media
Course or BYU streaming videos for current faculty, staff and students.
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BYU Speeches Website
BYU Speeches from 1949 to the present. Includes transcripts, audio, and video.