Database of the world's banks and financial institutions. Gives payment and settlement details, ownership, credit ratings and financials. For other company accounts, go to FAME.

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Provides detailed financial information, ratings, and ownership information for over 20,000 banks worldwide. Up to 8 years of information is included for each bank.

Note for off-campus use: To identify yourself type Bournemouth University in the search box or select Bournemouth University from the drop down list.

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Barbour Environment, Health & Safety online service offers full text documentation on legislation, regulations and standards from over 600 information providers, including HSE, Environment Agency and BSI, plus case law and prosecutions from key sources. The University has single user access to this service.

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The BBC Motion Gallery provides access to moving images from the BBC's extensive archive. This JISC negotiated licence permits the staff and students of the licensed institutions to access a vast collection of clips for use in presentations, lectures and coursework.

Note: Currently only available on-campus

BestBETs is a database of rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions principally in emergency medicine, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. The database also includes a significant number of BETs (=Best Evidence Topics) covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), is a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. The library currently consists of over 37,000 titles in digital format.

Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Located on Select a Database tab on Web of Knowledge.

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Online full text access to 26 core business and economics textbooks plus 250 critical viewpoints, matched to specific chapter topic.

Access to reference titles published by Blackwell Publishing in the subject areas of business and management, economics, psychology and sociology.

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British Nursing Index is a nursing and midwifery database, covering over 200 UK journals and other English language titles. A useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers. Coverage: 1994 -

The contents of this database are mostly covered by mySearch

Access to BNI is also available on Proquest. From 2012 BNI will only be available on Proquest.

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Access to e-books in business, finance, computing and IT. A one-off registration process is required.

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BoB or Box of Broadcasts is a service available to all Bournemouth University members of staff, researchers and students. You need to register first to receive a password. Using BoB you can record TV and radio programmes from Freeview, and request programmes that have been broadcast in the previous seven days. BoB uses an Electronic Programme Guide which means you can schedule requests for programmes up to seven days in advance. BoB is available off-campus. Requested programmes will play in your web browser. BoB is not available outside the United Kingdom [UK]. 
Note: Before using BoB, you must register on the BoB site using your Bournemouth University e-mail address.

BoB operates under a specific licence offered in the UK so you must ensure that you comply with the licence terms and conditions.

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BRAD is a comprehensive database of media in the United Kingdom including magazines, newspapers, radio, television, and out of home. BRAD provides information for advertisers including contacts and rates.

Please logout of BRAD when you have finished.

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Searchable database of publicly available breast cancer information. Includes factsheets, posters and other materials from a number of US government health organistations. With a largely US focus, this resource is fully searchable or can be browsed by categories including: treatment, prevention, risk factors, disparities in health care and clinical trials.

Bibliography of publications covering the archaeology of Great Britain and Ireland. Over 200,000 references to publications published between 1695 and the present day.

BEI, compiled by the University of Leeds, provides references to 350 British and European periodicals in education and training.
Coverage: 1975 - .

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The British National Formulary (BNF) provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines. It details medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.

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The British Pathe Film Archive covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. The database contains 3500 hours of moving image. Access to low resolution review material is free of charge. You are required to complete a registration form.

British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion it will consist of more than 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

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Searchable database of full text sets of British Standards (BS); British adopted European Standards (BS EN) and British adopted International Standards (BS ISO).

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The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
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Business and management research database, providing full text for more than 3,065 journals, including full text for more than 1,544 peer-reviewed business titles. Includes full text of Harvard Business Review since 1922. Updated daily.

The contents of this database are included in mySearch

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