Biography Databases

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Indexes, sometimes with abstracts (no full text).

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 additional journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

African American Biographical Database

Includes the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in other reference sources. These biographical sketches have been assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index to Citations

Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Biography Index

Offers references to autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews.

Biography Resource Center & The Complete Marquis Who's Who

The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.

Black Studies Center

Brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present, and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.

Dictionary of Political Biography from Oxford Reference Online

This dictionary covers many of the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Includes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspaper articles in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology disciplines. Some full-text. Searches may be restricted to refereed journals only.

LexisNexis Academic

Select Reference. Then select Biographical Information. Full text information on politicians, business executives and more.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online

Authoritative resource on all aspects of music.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content -- indexing, abstracts, and full text -- from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography provides access to 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000.

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