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Bachelor DoKS (Document and Knowledge Sharing Application) contains digital versions of materials related to the Dutch Bachelor degree. The service uses DoKS software.

Ball State University Digital Media Repository provides a centralized, coordinated, and user-focused resource to serve the teaching, learning, and research needs of students, faculty, and researchers at Ball State and beyond. It serves as a means to bring together the digital collections and activities of the University Libraries in a single, cohesive, and accessible Web-based environment that also provides access to external digital resources to support the educational process.

The Baltic Marine Environment Bibliography covers bibliographic information on the Baltic Sea, i.e., all marine areas from the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia in the east and north to the Belt Sea and Kattegat in the west. It contains references to reports including "grey literature," journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, etc. The bibliography covers material from the year 1970. The Bibliography is produced from contributions prepared by all the surrounding Baltic Sea states. The Information Service of the Technical Research Centre of Finland is responsible for the compilation and processing of the bibliographic information as a consultant for the Helsinki Commission.

Barrel at Otaru University provides access to research from Otaru University. The repository uses DSpace open-access software, developed at MIT.

The Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ) hosts the Digitale Bibliothek at the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek. MDZ contains digitized books from the StaatsBibliothek collection.

BEACON eSpace at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a repository for digital copies of technical publications authored by JPL employees. It includes preprints, meeting papers, journal articles and other publications cleared for external distribution from 1992 to the present. The repository uses DSpace open-access software, developed at MIT.

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) EPrints Online Archive contains research publications from the print journal. Biology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology are topics covered in the publications. The ePrints service is running on eprints.org open archive software, a freely distributable archive system available from eprints.org.

The bepress (Berkeley Electronic Press) Legal Repository is a network of law-related research materials. Law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and other subject-appropriate groups post materials to specific publications (e.g., the USC Working Paper Series). This high-quality content may be downloaded freely by interested readers. The repository is hosted on the Digital Commons product from bepress.

Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) is an institutional repository containing research output from the University of Bergen, Norway. It contains full-text peer-reviewed journal articles, theses, dissertations and other digital research materials. It uses DSpace open-access software, developed at MIT.

Berkeley Electronic Press SelectedWorks is a web-based service that enables institutions to provide faculty with clean, elegantly designed scholarly publication pages. This repository contains records linking to the publication pages. The "Digital Commons" product is from ProQuest, also known as the bepress.com system.

The Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Publikationsserver contains electronic documents from researchers and staff at the Akademie.

The Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB) OPUS system was originated by the VdBD (Verein der Diplom-Bibliothekare an Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken) and hosts scientific documents of professional librarians. The materials are open access.

Biblios: Revista de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información is a librarianship and information science journal. The ISSN of this journal is 1562-4730. This is an Open Journal Systems (OJS) publication.

The Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Computação (BDBComp) Archive contains publications and annals of events happening throughout Brazil. The Archive is affiliated with the UFMG Database Group, which conducts extensive research on database related topics such as conceptual modeling, cooperative interfaces, database design, digital libraries, web and semistructured data management, and web information retrieval.

The Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertaçñes (BDTD) of the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) coordinates the integration of the existing thesis and dissertation systems in the Instituiçñes de Ensino Superior (IES) of Brazil. IBICT acts to provide new technologies of access to this information, and also to stimulate the registration and publication of theses and dissertations.

The Biblioteca Digital Jurídica (BDJur) is a project of the President of the Superior Tribunal de Justiça, in Brasília/Brazil, per Act No. 278/2004. This repository congregates, preserves and disseminates the intellectual and administrative production of the Court, as well as other documents of interest to the legal world.

The Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico is a cooperative project of the Ministry of Culture and the Independent Communities whose objective is the dissemination of digital facsimiles of collections of manuscripts and printed books that comprise the Spanish Historical Patrimony. This initiative will allow to consult without restrictions materials that, by their characteristics, are difficult to access.

The Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica is the result of a process of cooperative digitizing by the Ministerio de Cultura and the Bibliotecas Públicas del Estado as well as other memory institutions, whereby the intention is not only to preserve but also to offer access to bibliographic materials that are denoted for being unique copies and therefore not easily accessible.

Biblioteka Cyfrowa: Centralnego Osrodka Doskonalenia Nauczycieli provides access to materials from the National In-Service Teacher Training Center. It uses dlibra, a framework for building digital libraries.

Biblioteka Cyfrowa: Centralnego Osrodka Doskonalenia Nauczycieli provides access to materials from the National In-Service Teacher Training Center. It uses dlibra, a framework for building digital libraries.

Biblioteka Cyfrowa Politechniki Lodzkiej (eBiPol) contains digital materials (e.g., books, educational materials, journals, microfiches, PhD theses, scientific bulletins) from the Biblioteka Cyfrowa Politechniki Lodzkiej. It uses dlibra, a framework for building digital libraries.

Biblioteka Cyfrowa Politechniki Warszawskiej contains materials from the Warsaw University of Technology Library's holdings in digital form. It uses dlibra, a framework for building digital libraries.

Biblioteka Cyfrowa Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego in Poland provides access to digitized historical documents, educational collections and exhibitions concerning the most interesting materials selected from resources of the University Library.

The Virtueller Medienserver (virtual media server) of the Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ BW) was developed in 1995. It is a central document management system for digitized media, associating primarily with participant libraries of the Südwestdeutschen Bibliotheksverbund (SWB) , the South West German library group. The BSZ is a state institution providing service for libraries, museums, and archives. The BSZ operates the Cataloging Union in South Western Germany, the SWB, local systems, the Regional Union Catalog (ZKBW), and the Digital Library.

Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (BVH), with funding from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), digitizes materials from the Renaissance. The materials show in both text and image formats, and over 2000 are planned to be digitized.

The Bichler and Nitzan Archives contain Shimshon Bichler's and Jonathan Nitzan's publications as well as related items. Shimshon Bichler teaches political economy at colleges and universities in Israel, and Jonathan Nitzan teaches political economy at York University in Canada.

The purpose of the BICTEL/e project is to gather in a common repository and to make freely accessible on-line, in full text, the production of the research (theses and e-prints) of the nine universities of the French Community of Belgium.

The Bielefelder Text Archiv Server contains digitized monographs and journal articles housed at Universität Bielefeld in Germany.

BieSOn (Bielefelder Server für Online-Publikationen) is a service of the University Library for Universität Bielefeld, where scientific research of faculty of Universitat Bielefeld can be published free of charge. Research includes essays, proceedings, research papers, reports, theses, etc. The work is durably archived by the University Library, and enhanced with the help of the authors by qualified descriptions.

Biodiversity Informatics publishes articles in all areas related to information regarding biodiversity: creation of electronic data sets, and their management, integration, analysis, interpretation, and understanding. Manuscripts are welcomed representing significant and original results that extend the understanding of biodiversity informatics.

Bioline International (BI) is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal is reducing the South to North knowledge gap, crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. BI contains peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. BI makes bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community world-wide.

BioMed Central (BMC) publishes biology and medicine articles from individual authors in a number of peer-reviewed online journals. Once an article is accepted by BMC, it is published on BioMed Central immediately and subsequently in PubMed Central, where it is also indexed.

BioOne is the product of a collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web an aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and until now have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides access to an information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Birkbeck ePrints is an online archival database hosting the full text of published research done at Birkbeck College. Material stored in the archive is freely available to anyone over the Internet. Birkbeck ePrints is not a publishing mechanism, nor is it a substitute for peer-reviewed journals. It has been developed to host material that has already been, or is about to be, published elsewhere. The archive is running on GNU EPrints open archive software, a freely distributable archive system developed by the University of Southampton, England.

The Electronic Research Archive at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in the southeastern part of Sweden contains scientific documents produced at the Institute since 1990. About half of the digital documents are avaialable in fulltext. The Institute profile is Applied Information Technology and the research focus is on Software Engineering, Signal Processing and Telecommunications.

The Caltech Library System manages the Books by Caltech Authors collection, a repository containing books written by Caltech faculty and staff members. This archive is running on eprints.org open archive software, a freely distributable archive system available from eprints.org.

BORA CMI (Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI)) contains research from CMI at BORA. CMI is an independent centre for research on international development and policy. CMI conducts both applied and theoretical research and has a multidisciplinary profile anchored in four thematic research groups: Rights, Democracy and Development; Peace, Conflict and the State; Poverty Reduction; and Public Sector Reform. It uses DSpace open-access software, developed at MIT.

Borås Academic Digital Archive (BADA) contains scientific publications, student theses and other digital objects from the Högskolan i Borås. The repository uses DSpace open-access software, developed at MIT.

Bournemouth University EPrints is the institutional repository for Bournemouth University. The archive runs on e-prints, open archive software available from eprints.org.

The Bristol Repository of Scholarly Eprints (ROSE) is the digital research repository of the University of Bristol. ROSE offers open access to the full text of a growing proportion of the academic research of the University. It complements IRIS, the University's Integrated Research Information System.

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, it aims to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. The IHR has shown its commitment to promoting the study of history by publishing these resources for their historical value, cross-searchable, in one place, and free of charge.

The British Library Research Archive is a database of papers and articles focusing on non-affiliated reader research carried out in the Library's Reading Rooms. The archive also contains papers by British Library staff, papers from conferences hosted by the British Library and papers on research carried out within the Library.

The British Women Romantic Poets Project (BWRP) at the Shields Library, University of California, Davis is an electronic collection of poems written by British women between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. The texts are tagged using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) makes research post-prints, electronic theses, images, grey literature, audio files, presentations, electronic journal articles, and the results of digitisation projects from BURA faculty and staff available via the web. The repository uses DSpace open-access software, developed at MIT.

The aim and scope of the Bulletin of Applied Mechanics is to convey scientific progress in applied mechanics to those concerned with application of this knowledge for the engineering practice. The Bulletin publishes original contributions in the field of experimental and numerical mechanics, mechanics of materials, biomechanics and review articles by experts on new developments in theoretical mechanics and advances in experimental techniques. The Bulletin is published by the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Its ISSN is 1801-1217.