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Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. It contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies and includes images of artists’ signatures, monograms, and stamps.

The Berg Fashion Library is now part of Bloomsbury Fashion Central. It is the authority on world dress. It is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more.

Offering the in-depth, original profiles of Current Biography and World Authors series, the thorough periodical coverage of Biography Index, and the specialist biographical content of Junior Authors & Illustrators, this database contains biographical full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals—providing the most current coverage of an individual’s life and work.

With Biological Abstracts, you can easily discover the critical non-journal coverage you need to prepare research projects, grant proposals and follow trends in the life sciences. Coverage of meetings and conferences, literature reviews, U.S. patents, books, software and other media help you explore relevant disciplines from botany to microbiology to pharmacology.

Approximately 200 peer-reviewed science, technology and medicine journals. Documents are open access – free to view, print and download.

BIR Entertainment provides information on about 450,000 music titles and 200,000 DVD/video titles, with more being added regularly. With BIR, your patrons can find music or videos featuring a favorite artist or performer, or a specific genre.

Black Studies in Video 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.

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

Book Index with Reviews (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles. Fiction and non-fiction titles are included in the database, in all genres.

Book Review Index Online Plus is a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews.

Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.

Browse company profiles, country reports, industry profiles and market research reports.

Business Source Elite 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. Additional content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, and investment research reports.