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Showing 61–80 of 85 Databases starting with ‘B’.

  • Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982

    Reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this Retrospective database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Virtually every major idea that shaped the 20th century found expression in books. The reactions to those ideas are reflected in the reviews of those books, and this database makes it easy to search this vast record of information.

  • Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library

    Originally the personal library of the Brazilian diplomat, historian, and journalist Manoel de Oliveira Lima--the Oliveira Lima Library--has long been regarded as one of the finest collections of Luso-Brazilian materials available to scholars. Spanning the “long” 19th century, this collection turns the spotlight on Latin America’s largest and most influential power, covering 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.

  • Bremer-Kovacs Collection: Historic Documents Related to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946

    The Bremer-Kovacs Collection: Historic Documents Related to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 is a comprehensive collection designed to make the APA’s history more accessible and understandable. The Collection begins in 1929 with the APA’s first predecessors: bills to regulate administrative procedure that were introduced in Congress but never enacted. The Collection’s coverage expands in 1933, tracking heightened interest in administrative reform following President Roosevelt’s first inauguration and spurred on by the New Deal expansion of the federal administrative apparatus. The Collection includes a comprehensive legislative history of the Walter-Logan Bill of 1940, which Congress approved but President Roosevelt vetoed, as well as later bills that culminated in the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA).

  • Brepolis Library of Latin Texts

    Formerly known as CETEDOC, this database for Latin texts, contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature and works of later Latin, including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis are included. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum and Teubner series and other editions. 

  • Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies

    Combined search of International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale (BCM) and Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance (IBHR) that provides access to 14 centuries of European history from 300 to 1700.

  • Brepols Database of Latin Dictionaries

    The aim of the database is not only to integrate different types of Latin dictionaries, whether modern, medieval or early-modern, but also to build in links between these different tools. Where the dictionaries provide Latin terms and vernacular equivalents or explanations (whether in contemporary or historic forms of English, French or German), searches will be possible on both the Latin lemmata and the English, French or German lemmata. This database will provide an unsurpassed tool since all Latin word-forms that appear concretely in texts will have a link to entries in relevant dictionaries and from there the user can go and read the selected dictionary entry.

  • Brepols Latin Cross Database Searchtool

    The Cross Database Searchtool (CDS) enables the user to search two or more full-text Latin databases that are part of ‘Brepolis Latin’ simultaneously. ‘Brepolis Latin’ consists of the following full-text databases: the Library of Latin Texts (Series A and B), the electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica, the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature and the Aristoteles Latinus Database.

  • Brepols Monumenta Germaniae Historica

    The Monumenta Germaniae Historica was founded in 1819 by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlands ältere Geschichtskunde. It is without doubt one of the most prestigious editorial undertakings for the critical publication of medieval historical texts.

  • Brepols Online

    Brepols Online is the central platform for Brepols’ scholarly eBooks and eJournals, providing access to high-quality research in the humanities, with a particular focus on history, archaeology, history of the arts, language & literature. Be aware that JHU does not have access to all Brepols publications on this platform. In addition, JHU has subscription access to selected Brepolis databases. Use this link to access the Brepolis Online databases landing page. Those databases include:

    • L'Année philologique
    • Bibliography of British and Irish History
    • Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale
    • Bibliographie Annuelle du Moyen-Âge Tardif
    • International Medieval Bibliography
    • International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance
    • Clavis Clavium
    • Library of Latin Texts
    • Monumenta Germaniae Historica
    • Database of Latin Dictionaries
    • Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
    • Lexikon des Mittelalters (IEMA)
    • Europa Sacra

  • Brill Online Reference Works

    Brill has a collection of major reference works with world renowned titles. Subscription access includes:

    • African Research Online (2 titles)
    • New Pauly Online (2 titles)
    • New Pauly Online Supplements I (13 titles)
    • Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World
    • Brill's Medieval Reference Library (4 titles)
    • Jesuit Historiography Online
    • Catalog of Catalogs Online
    • Encyclopeadia of Judaism
    • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
    • Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
    • Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics
    • Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity
    • Rosenne's Law and Practice of the International Court: 1920-1915
    • Brockelmann (2 titles)
    • Christian-Muslim Relations (2 titles)
    • Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
    • Encyclopaedia of Islam (7 titles)
    • Quranic Studies Online (6 titles)
    • Storey Online

  • Brill Scholarly Editions

    A research environment allowing easy access to authoritative text editions, commentaries, and translations of ancient works, fragments, papyri, and inscriptions. Brill’s Scholarly Editions is a digital academic platform specifically designed to meet the needs of the modern researcher. It enables the detailed study of texts next to one another, providing convenient links between them. JHU only has subscription access to: Jacoby Online; Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online; Flavius Josephus Online; Eustathius of Thessalonica Commentary on the Illiad; Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey; and, The Literary History of Medicine (OA)

  • Brill.com

    Discover Brill ebooks in both English and German. Please note that JHU does not subscribe to all content.

  • Britannica Academic

    Since the Encyclopædia Britannica's founding in 1768, Britannica editors have gathered and organized information on thousands of topics for easy retrieval.

  • British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500-1950

    Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters: primary materials spanning more than 300 years.

  • British Library Newspapers

    Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These newspapers, more than 240 titles, emerging during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history. Subscription includes: Parts I-V: 1800-1950 ; Part VI: Ireland, 1783-1950 ; and, Part VII: Southeast Asia, 1806-1977.

  • British Literary Manuscripts Online

    British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900, presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.

  • British Newsreels, 1911-1930

    This video resource comprises around 6,000 early twentieth century Topical Budget newsreels drawn from the British Film Institute and Imperial War Museums. Topical Budget was one of the major British newsreels of the silent era. These silent films offer insights into British life, culture and society with subjects ranging from the First World War, the Royal Family, and domestic and international politics through to sport, leisure and fashion.

  • British Online Archives

    BOA providea students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. Subscription includes: Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907 ; Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953 ; Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners, 1686-1860 ; South Africa in records from colonial missionaries, 1819-1900 ; The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade, 1759-1832; Slavery: Supporters and Abolitionists 1675-1865; The West Indies in records from colonial missionaries, 1710-1950; and Sierra Leone under colonial rule, in Government reports, 1893-1961

  • British Periodicals

    This database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

  • Broadcasting America

    Discover how the expansion of radio and television technology, and the rise of mass media empires, accelerated America's transformation into a consumer-based society through the lens of pioneer David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and other industry papers. The rise of large media corporations transformed radio from a one-to-one communication tool to a means of broadcasting ideas and information to the masses. The papers in this resource provide insight into the impact of broadcasting innovations on advertising, consumer culture, global conflicts, and the Space Race. The bulk of the material spans the 1920s to the 1970s, representing the decades of David Sarnoff’s career at RCA. Some additional content covers pre-1920s broadcasting developments, and the final years of RCA before its sale in 1986.