http://www.lib.vt.edu/alumniportal/databases/research-starter.html en Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:44:39 -0400 webmaster@lib.vt.edu webmaster@lib.vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/B/background-notes.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/U/S_usds.jpg" alt="United States Department of State" height="153px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2003" title="Background Notes (U.S. State Department reports)" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2003')" shape="rect">Background Notes (U.S. State Department reports)</a> </span></h2><p><i>Background Notes</i> include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of <a href="http://www.state.gov/s/inr/states/">independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty</a>. <i>Background Notes</i> are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's <a href="http://www.state.gov/countries/">regional bureaus</a>. <span class="majax-erm-advisory" title="e1000708"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/B/background-notes.html">Full record</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:42:13 -0400 http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/B/background-notes.html Countries and cultures Freely accessible databases http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/B/biodiversity-heritage-library.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/B/S_biodiv.jpg" alt="Biodiversity Heritage Library" height="136px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/advancedsearch.aspx" title="Biodiversity Heritage Library" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/advancedsearch.aspx')" shape="rect">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a> </span></h2><p><i>BHL</i> contains scanned, historic, biological literature from major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions: books, journals, and more. 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