DATABASES & E-REFERENCE MATERIALS: B

Indexes over 50 bioscience research journals focusing on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full text access is available.

Provides access to journals, meetings, patents, and books in the areas of life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.

Formally known as Birds of North America, this database has expanded to include Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds, Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, and Bird Families of the World. Provides 10,721 species accounts from all 249 bird families.The platform merges comprehensive life histories of bird species with range maps, illustrations, photographs, and video and audio recordings from Cornell's Macaulay Library.

More than 550 works by authors of African and African-American descent, including personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, novels, essays, poems, and more.

Provides access to approximately 1,310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. This database also includes selected playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays.

Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource provides access to texts that document the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century from the perspectives of men, women, and children.

Black Life in America, Series 3 offers a window into African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent. Updated daily with new content, this database provides in-depth coverage of issues involved in America’s ongoing conversation on race, including coverage of historic changes such as Barack Obama’s election and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Black Studies Center consists of scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black Studies, and historic indexes. This resource includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database (formerly International Index to Black Periodicals), the Black Literature Index, and historical black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender.

Contains the non-fiction published works of over 1,000 leading African Americans, including artists, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, entertainers, and more. Resources cover over 250 years of history and include interviews, journal articles, letters, speeches, trial transcripts, and other materials. Full text is available.

Encyclopedia covering concepts and theories in social psychology.