Balkan Insight is a publication of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), that focuses on news, analysis, commentary and investigative reporting from the Western Balkans Region: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. [info]

Coverage:  2005 - Present

Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy, Sr when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy’s daughter) and female sportswriters, the paper’s contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Through the decades, the newspaper fought for equal employment rights, urged African-American participation in politics, and advocated state-funded higher education for blacks. [info]

Coverage:  1893 - 1988

The Baltimore Sun (1837-1985) is among the most distinguished newspapers in American journalism. [info]

Coverage:  1837 - 1985

This 19 part video streaming version of the 4th edition provides the foundation for performing physical examination and taking the patient history. [info]

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This electronic edition reassembles all of the Tapestry in a continuous scrolling format, and presents annotations of scholarship precisely keyed to relevant sections of the textile. [info]

Full profiles provide an instant guide to the history, politics, and economic backgrounds of countries. [info]

Updated:  Continuously

Streaming video of full length classic dramatic performances of 37 Shakespeare plays produced by BBC and Time-Life films. [info]

BCC Research provides global market research reports for ten areas—Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Energy and Resources, Environment, Healthcare, Information Technology, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Safety and Security—which cover market intelligence, five-year forecasting, statistical and analytical data, key players, market share, industry structure and dynamics, and technology trends and shifts. [info]

The InteLex Past Masters database Benedict de Spinoza is the complete electronic edition of the complete works of Spinoza in Latin and Dutch based on a corrected version of the authoritative edition of Carl Gebhardt. [info]

Language:  Dutch,Latin

This database will eventually include up to 200 peer-reviewed open access journals. [info]

Coverage:  2007 - Present

This database includes the 10 published volumes from the definitive Bentham Project, which is ongoing. [info]

This database contains Bentham's published and unpublished works from the definitive and ongoing Bentham Project. [info]

This database contains all Berkeley's texts included in the 9-volume T E Jessop and A A Luce edition. [info]

This collection contains twenty versions of the Bible. [info]

Coverage:  990-1970

The Bibliografía Mesoamericana, jointly supervised by John Weeks of the Museum Library of the University of Pennsylvania and Sandra Noble of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. [info]

Coverage:  1514 -
Updated:  Continuously

This is the premier bibliography covering Western-language studies of German language and literature. [info]

Coverage:  1980 - present
Updated:  Annually
Language:  German

This publication describes books and serials published, printed or distributed in France and received by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France through legal deposit. [info]

Language:  French

As of February 2004 this database contains over 49,000 citations from over 400 English language and multi-lingual journal and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African Continent and represents Africana materials from over twenty nations within North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. [info]

Coverage:  1950s-
Updated:  Continuously

The Bibliography of American Literature (9 vols, Yale University Press, 1955-1991) provides nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. [info]

Coverage:  American Revolution to 1930
Updated:  Completed set of works, no updates planned

Citations to articles published worldwide from 1971 for East, Southeast and South Asia. [info]

Coverage:  1971-present (substantial publication lag)

The Bibliography of British and Irish History covers over 600 journals for articles, as well as books and collections of essays. [info]

Note(s):  Please click on the 'Enter Databases' link. Then select 'Bibliography of British and Irish History'. Limited to 3 users at a time.
Updated:  3 times per year

'The Bibliography of Slavery is a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European languages on slavery and slaving, worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times. [info]

Updated:  Annually

The most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. [info]

Coverage:  1973 - 1999
Updated:  Quarterly

BiblioMap, the EPPI-Centre database of health promotion research, has been compiled over a number of years as a result of searching and coding research for inclusion in systematic reviews. [info]

Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina Online comprises an ever-growing collection of critical editions of Latin texts from the Roman Republic to the medieval period. [info]

Language:  Latin

Points to places to find biographical information for over 5 million people, living and dead. [info]

Updated:  Semi-annual

This resource identifies over 620,000 books and articles with biographical information about famous, and even infamous, people from the ancient world to 1983. [info]

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Coverage:  1946 - 1983

Offers a comprehensive collection of 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. [info]

Updated:  Continually

Bioline provides access to quality research journals published in developing and transitional countries. [info]

Coverage:  2000 -
Updated:  Continuous
Language:  Various

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. [info]

Note(s):  Click here for a list of all open access and subscribed titles available from UNC. Our institutional membership, renewed June 2008, currently provides a 15% discount on article processing fees for UNC-Chapel Hill authors.

BioOne provides integrated access to a linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. [info]

Coverage:  Varies

BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive biological sciences product that is available via the ISI Web of Knowledge® platform. [info]

Coverage:  1926 -
Updated:  Weekly

The Birds of North America Online is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. [info]

Updated:  Continuously

Provides detailed industry analysis and market research reports on more than 16,000 lines of business in national and local markets. Types of reports: -Industry Financial Profiles -Market Research Reports -Area Demographic Profiles -Business Failure Rate Index -Sole Proprietor/Startup Profit & Loss -Local Market Vitality Profiles [info]

Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. [info]

Coverage:  Mid 1800s to present

Black Studies Center is the major indexing and fulltext database for African American studies. [info]

Coverage:  1902 - present
Updated:  Updated continuously

This searches the full text backfiles of several major black newspapers, including The Chicago Defender, founded in May 1905 as a weekly newspaper and later expanded to daily publication, and the New York Amsterdam News, founded as a six-page weekly covering local news by James Henry Anderson in 1909. [info]

Coverage:  Varies by publication -

Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. [info]

Coverage:  To 1975

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology comprises about 1800 commissioned entries on all aspects of the discipline of sociology. [info]

Coverage:  Current information only
Updated:  none

Bloomberg Law provides primary and secondary legal content and company and market information and news, including BNA products [info]

Note(s):  Law faculty & students, contact the reference desk at 962-1194 to request a user ID.

BNA publishes print and electronic news, analysis, and reference products, providing intensive coverage of legal and regulatory developments for professionals in business and government. [info]

Note(s):  Also available to UNC-CH Law Library and School of Law faculty, staff and students via Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw.
Coverage:  Varies
Updated:  Varies

An index to book reviews from 1905-1983, this database was purchased with funds from the Howard Holsenbeck Endowment. [info]

Coverage:  1905 - 1983

Booksinprint.com contains records for millions of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming book, e-book, audio, and video titles. [info]

Coverage:  1970 - Current
Updated:  Updated daily

Full text access to 20 selected medical texts. [info]

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. [info]

Coverage:  1936-1938

Brill's New Pauly Online is the current standard scholarly encyclopedia for Classicists and other students of ancient Greece and Rome, often used in conjunction with the earlier standard edition known as Paulys Realencyclopaedie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1894-1972 (Davis Reference DE5 .P33). [info]

Language:  English,German

Core records of the British Cabinet from 1915 to 1980 have been digitised, and their full text is searchable online from these web pages. [info]

Coverage:  1915 - 1980

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. [info]

Coverage:  11th Century - 19th Century
Updated:  Irregular

British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. [info]

Coverage:  (Part I: Medieval/Renaissance) - (Part II: c.1660 – 1900)

This site is generated from Hansard, the Official Report of Debates in Parliament. [info]

Coverage:  1803 - 2005

British Periodicals I and II includes the searchable full text and facsimile page images of 500 periodicals published between 1681 and 1921, a significant time not only for British history, but, given the growth and dominance of the British Empire for most of that period, world history. [info]

Coverage:  1681 - 1921

This database contains the complete texts of Hobbes, English Works; Locke-Berkeley-Hume; Economics, Smith to Mill; The Utilitarians; Francis Bacon's Novum Organum (in English and Latin), the Selby-Bigge two-volume edition of The British Moralists (with excerpts from Butler, S. [info]

Language:  English,Latin

Burger's offers broad coverage of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery for new or experienced medicinal chemists, biologists, pharmacologists and molecular biologists. [info]

For many years, the Business Periodicals Indes was the premier business journal index, preceded by the Industrial Arts Index. [info]

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Coverage:  1913 - 1982

Business Source Complete provides full-text business journals and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business; marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. [info]

Updated:  Continually