Databases - B
Bankruptcy
Coverage: Contains commentary relating to New Zealand insolvency law, the rules applicable in the case of persons (debtors) who are unable to pay their debts. New Zealand
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Coverage: Operated by Bielefeld University Library, a search engine especially for academic open access web resources. Includes UC Research Repository content.
BBC Academy College of Journalism
Coverage: This website focuses on best practice in core editorial skills, and offers an overview of specialist areas as well as legal and ethical issues. Includes videos, audio clips, discussion pages, interactive modules, and text pages covering every aspect of TV, radio, and online journalism
Date range: Continuously updated
BestCase Library (WestlawNext.Canada.)
Coverage: A search engine platform. Contains Canadian law reports and renowned case summary services, including, among others, Canadian Criminal Cases, Dominion Law Reports, and Labour Arbitration Cases. Canada
Date range: 1880-
Publication types: Cases, law reports, summaries, articles
Bibliography of Asian studies
Coverage: Covers all subjects, humanities, science and social science as they relate to Asia.
Date range: 1971-Updated quarterly.
Publication types: Western-language periodical articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften and monographs (pre-1992 only).
Bibliography of the history of art
Coverage: Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present, including painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, popular and folk art.
Date range: 1975-1989 (RILA); 1990-2007 (BHA)
Publication types: Books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, journals
Bloomberg
Coverage: A leading global provider for business and financial market news. It provides both real-time and archived financial and market data, including global equities, fixed income, derivatives, foreign exchange, M&A, debt markets, commodities, energy, economics, earnings estimates, etc.
Note: Available on 1 PC outside room 210, Central Library and in the UC Trading Room on Level 1 of Meremere. For help contact the Business Subject Librarian.
Help: Click here for instructions on installing the Bloomberg Excel plugin.
Access: On-campus only. Maximum 1 concurrent users.
Bridget Williams Books critical issues collection
Coverage: This Collection is a growing set of titles on critical issues for Aotearoa, including climate change; government, trade and economics; housing; rights, justice and identity; inequality and child poverty; migration; science and health.
Publication types: books
Bridget Williams Books New Zealand history collection
Coverage: This Collection is a landmark digital resource from Bridget Williams Books (BWB). Designed and managed in-house at BWB, the Collection is primarily designed to: Make this acclaimed list of award-winning New Zealand historical scholarship available direct to libraries, schools and other institutions; Offer a clear, fast and responsive design, optimised for mobile and tablet devices; Deliver flexible and intuitive use of the books that avoids proprietary technology and instead acknowledges how readers and researchers use the web day-to-day; Evolve over time using a platform built on open standards and drawing on features
Connect to The New Zealand History Collection videos
Publication types: books
Bridget Williams Books texts collection
Coverage: Provides complete online access to this acclaimed series of short books on big New Zealand subjects by authors such as Shamubeel Eaqub, Rebecca Macfie, Morgan Godfery, Shaun Hendy, Veronika Meduna, Max Rashbrooke, Nicola Gaston and Kirsty Gunn providing a high-quality and accessible introduction to a different aspect of New Zealand life. Also available are the BWB talks series which feature videos of authors delving into their books from locations across Aotearoa. The videos correspond to specific BWB texts collection titles, complementing this collection.
Publication types: books
Bridget Williams Books The Treaty of Waitangi Collection
Coverage: This Collection is a landmark digital resource from Bridget Williams Books (BWB). It is primarily designed to: provide a new and authoritative home for Treaty scholarship online, with more books to be added over time; offer a clear, fast and responsive design, optimised for mobile and tablet devices; deliver flexible and intuitive use of the books that avoids proprietary technology and instead acknowledges how readers and researchers use the web day-to-day; evolve over time using a platform built on open standards and drawing on features - such as CrossRef - that are built to last. Also available are the BWB talks series which feature videos of authors delving into their books from locations across Aotearoa. The videos correspond to specific history titles and authors in this collection.
Connect to The Treaty of Waitangi Collection videos
Publication types: books
BriefCase - FindCase
Coverage: Component of BriefCase
BriefCase
Coverage: BriefCase is a comprehensive index of New Zealand case law which provides basic information on selected cases from 1847, summaries of selected cases decided since 1986, with more comprehensive coverage from 2000. The database now contains over 160,000 cases from New Zealand
Date range: 1847- Updated daily
Publication types: Case summaries, original transcripts
Brookers statutes of New Zealand. (Statutes of New Zealand)
Coverage: Contains: Principal acts (all changes fully consolidated) and related amendment acts, acts not yet or partly in force, repealed acts (since Jan. 1994, plus selected major acts repealed before 1994), imperial acts deemed to be in force in New Zealand, history and editorial notes. New Zealand
BSOL : British standards online
Coverage: UC subscribes to a BSI custom collection of up to 100 standards.
Publication types: Standards.
Business source complete
Coverage: Provides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 and full text journal articles in all disciplines of business. Full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Date range: 1886-; Updated daily
Publication types: Journal articles, books
Endnote: Adding records to EndNote
BWB Bridget Williams Books.
Coverage: For over three decades, books published by Bridget Williams have contributed to critical scholarship in New Zealand; they have told our stories, and deepened our understanding of what it is to inhabit these islands.
Publication types: books