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Factual Database
Birds of the World (BOW) is a powerful research database that brings together deep, scholarly content from celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. BOW content is written by ornithologists all over the world and was amassed from four major celebrated works of ornithology: Birds of North America, The Handbook of Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World.
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Fulltext Database
Delivers online access to scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s award-winning Academic division. Spanning the humanities and social sciences, the site features the latest research publications from Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, The Arden Shakespeare and Hart Publishing, alongside scholarship from historic imprints Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press. The current MPI Crime, Security & Law subscription comprises following collections: * Criminal Law and Justice collection * Legal Philosophy collection * Constitutional and Administrative Law
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Book Collection • Fulltext Database
Bloomsbury Cultural History is a fully cross-searchable digital resource that engages with culture throughout the ages from antiquity to modernity. Thanks to its interdisciplinary nature and ever-expanding collections, this unique digital reference tool promises to be an essential resource on many courses from cultural studies and sociology to history and anthropology. With exclusive digital access to Bloomsbury’s Cultural Histories series as well as an extensive e-book collection, image partnerships with the Wellcome Collection and supporting features like lesson plans and an interactive timeline, it has never been easier for students and scholars alike to explore the cultural worlds that have shaped our own.
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Fulltext Database • Book Collection
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies (BECS) offers a systematic and comparative look at key education levels and the study of cognitive and psychosocial development through early childhood and youth. The Collection includes eBooks, policy reports, country overviews and helpful research tools, allowing researchers to study and build an understanding of education systems, policies, and the nature of childhood and youth experience in different countries throughout the world.
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Book Collection • Fulltext Database • Reference Work
Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method is an educational digital resource dedicated to historiography and the examination of historical theory and methods using a global approach. Currently included are 100 exclusive articles by authors based in 25 different countries, a 4-volume major reference work on the global history of historiography and more than 60 eBooks.
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Journal Collection
The resource grants access to the archival volumes of 29 medical journals (partly with high impact factor) published by the British Medical Journals Publishing Group, amongst others to the renowned British Medical Journal. Access to content before 2006 is enabled by the publisher at no cost, content is publicly available.
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External Library Catalog
BN-OPALE PLUS combines into one catalog the records for the printed, sound, audiovisual, and multimedia materials collected by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) from its beginnings to the present day. The BN-OPALE PLUS catalog contains records for: * Books and periodicals making up the heritage collections, stored in BnF's François-Mitterrand Library, * Microfiche and microfilm, mostly created from heritage materials, * A selection of books and periodicals from special departments, * Open-Access materials from all the BnF libraries, * Sound recordings, videos, multimedia, and electronic materials comprising the heritage collections * Printed material and periodicals digitized by BnF, mostly in image format, * Electronic periodicals of which BnF also has the printed version, * Still images digitized by BnF, * Special materials regarding performing arts (pamphlets, programs, manuscripts,...) and cinema (movie posters, photographs). In addition, this catalog offers authority records containing extensive information on access rights (intellectual property rights and copyrights, subject matter, certificates, brand names, and others).
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Reference Database
Book Citation Index--Science (BKCI-S) and Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH) The Book Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the literature of the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Database Coverage: 2005 (copyright year) to the present
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Fulltext Database
Book Sales Catalogues Online offers a comprehensive bibliography of book sales catalogues printed in the Dutch Republic before 1801, providing full access to some 4,000 digital facsimiles from ca. 50 libraries across Europe. These catalogues are a key primary source for research on the history of the book and libraries, the history of ideas, the history of collecting, the history of literature, and the history of art. The catalogues contain information on books from all over Europe in various languages, such as Dutch, French, and Latin.
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Reference Database • Factual Database
Bowker's Books in Print is a bibliographic database on the ProQuest platform featuring millions of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audio books, and videos from more than 40 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, as well as Spanish-language titles from Spain and Central and South America. Book descriptions available are extended by annotations, tables of contents, and publisher information.
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Journal Collection
Brill is an academic publishing house with a strong international focus. The main subject areas of Brill's publication program are Ancient Near East & Egypt, Asian Studies, Biblical Studies & Religious Studies, Classic Studies, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Middle East & Islamic Studies, Social Sciences and STM & Biology. Content available: 152 titles (part of DFG license).
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Book Collection
The subscription provides access to ebooks from the collections "Human Rights and Humanitarian Law" and "International Law" published between 2006 and 2014.
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Fulltext Database
The Primary Sources platform consists of thematic collections of unique materials such as rare books and documents from around the world. These essential research tools in the area of humanities and social sciences are an integrated part of Brill’s product portfolio. Many of the collections are unique, as they are often the only source of rare documents outside of the source library itself. In addition to offering primary source material as collections, Brill also offer groups of collections as series.
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Book Collection • Reference Work
The platform provides access to Brill's reference works, including: * Brill's New Pauly and Der Neue Pauly have become a recognized standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. Now, the complete original Der Neue Pauly together with Brill’s New Pauly are offered online. New Pauly Online will allow the researcher to have the most complete database available. New Pauly Online is automatically updated whenever a new volume is published. * The Encyclopedia of Islam (New Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only on the religion, but also on the believers and the countries in which they live. * Lexicon Gregorianum Online is the most comprehensive Greek-German dictionary of the language used by Gregory of Nyssa. It is the only dictionary available specifically addressing the vocabulary of late Classical Greek. It documents Gregory's complete vocabulary, taking account of the syntax, meaning and connotations of every occurrence of a key word in his writings. Further reference works may be available due to local subscription.
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Book Collection • Reference Work
Brill Scholarly Editions is a text edition platform, providing access to selected Brill's reference works, including: * The Coptic Gnostic Library Online continues where the Dead Sea Scrolls left off. The main sources of information for the Gnostic religion are the so-called Nag Hammadi codices, written in Coptic. * Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online is the ultimate online critical text edition of Gregory of Nyssa's works based on all available known manuscripts, introduced with a complete discussion of the textual transmission and accompanied by extensive annotations on the biblical, classical and patristic sources, and indices. The platform provides interactive reading of text editions supported by critical editions, facsimiles, translations, commentaries, and is designed to display parallel texts side by side.
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Fulltext Database
ImageQuest offers more than 3 million rights-cleared images from the world's leading collections with a strong academic focus. The database includes photographs, maps, diagrams, clip art and other images from over 50 renowned collections around the world. ImageQuest provides proprietary educational imagery from a variety of subjects, such as life and medical sciences, geogrpahy, history, literature, art and mathematics.
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Miscellaneous
A 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
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Journal Collection • Fulltext Database
The database contains full texts of 426 British popular science, art science and literary periodicals from between the 17th and the 20th century.
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Fulltext Database
The Bundesanzeiger VergabePortal is the most complete, up-to-date and accurate database on public procurement law. It contains the entire procurement literature of the Bundesanzeiger Verlag (GWB, VgV, UVgO, VOL/A, VOL/B, VOB/A, VOB/B, SektVO, KonzVgV, VSVgV), including: *14 comments and manuals, * 28 practical guides, * 24 journals (VergabeNavigator, VergabeNews, VergabeFokus), * over 13,000 decisions and 400 standards from VERIS and * guidelines, checklists and working aids. -- Das Bundesanzeiger VergabePortal ist die vollständigste, aktuellste und treffsicherste Datenbank am Markt zum Vergaberecht. Sie enthält die gesamte Vergabe-Fachliteratur des Bundesanzeiger Verlags (GWB, VgV, UVgO, VOL/A, VOL/B, VOB/A, VOB/B, SektVO, KonzVgV, VSVgV). Hierzu gehören: *14 Kommentare und Handbücher, * 28 Praxisratgeber, * 24 Fachzeitschriften (VergabeNavigator, VergabeNews, VergabeFokus), * über 13.000 Entscheidungen und 400 Normen aus VERIS sowie * Leitfäden, Checklisten und Arbeitshilfen.
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Fulltext Database
On its website, the Federal Constitutional Court has published English-language versions of selected decisions since 1998. The decisions published on the website are anonymised and may have been abridged in consultation with the Justices concerned. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht veröffentlicht auf seinen Internetseiten alle wesentlichen Entscheidungen ab 1998. Dies sind alle Senatsentscheidungen (nicht aber Nebenentscheidungen wie z.B. Streitwertbeschlüsse und Kostenfestsetzungen) und viele begründete Kammerbeschlüsse. Betreffen mehrere Verfahren einen einheitlichen Sachverhalt und führen deswegen zu weitgehend einheitlichen Entscheidungen, wird nur das Pilotverfahren veröffentlicht. Die auf den Internetseiten veröffentlichten Texte sind anonymisiert, aber ungekürzt.