Biography Databases
Biography Resource Center (2 concurrent users)
- Provides full-text biographies on over 380,000 people from around the globe.
- Sources include The Complete Marquis Who's Who, Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, the Writers Directory, magazine and newspaper articles, and more.
- Includes a "Biographical Facts Search" for searching based on nationality, gender, ethnicity, time period, place, and more.
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Marquis Who’s Who on the Web
- Profiles on over 1.4 million accomplished individuals from all fields of study.
American National Biography (5 concurrent users)
- Provides full-text biographies of over 17,000 Americans and others deceased prior to 1996 who made significant contributions to American history or culture.
- Includes thousands of illustrations, cross-references, and links to select web sites.
- Primary sources are often listed.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Provides full-text biographies of over 55,000 dead people from the U.K. and the British Commonwealth since the 4th century B.C.
- Includes illustrations, photographs, and bibliographies, and where known, details of wealth at death.
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Literature Resource Center
- Provides full text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of nearly 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers.
- Covers all time periods, genres, and nations.
- Includes Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Authors.
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New York Times Historical
- Provides full text of the newspaper from 1851 to three years ago.
- Includes many obituaries and feature articles on individuals.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (2 concurrent users)
- Indexes over 13.6 million biographical sketches from over 3400 sources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, collective biographies, journal articles, and biographical indices.
- Includes persons living and dead from all over the world and all time periods.
- To see if the Library owns the sources check the Library catalog for books, or Journal Finder for journal articles.
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Biography Index
- Indexes over 7,800 periodicals and 2,500 books that published biographies.
- Covers magazines, journals, autobiographies, individual biographies, and collective biographies.
- To see if the Library owns the sources check the Library catalog for books, or Journal Finder for journal articles.
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