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Indexes & Databases - By Subject

Biography

	Title	Access Notes
	American National Biography (5 user limit)	Univ
	Containing over 18,000 biographies, this resource covers deceased persons whose lives or careers directly influenced the course of American history. [more info...]
	Biography Reference Bank Select Edition (4 user limit)	Univ
	Containing over 236,000 biographical profiles, this is an excellent full-text resource for current celebrities, authors, historical figures, and others. [more info...]
	Dictionary of Scientific Biography	Univ
	Contains biographies of natural scientists and mathematicians from around the world and from all historical periods. [more info...]
	Discovering Collection	Univ
	A comprehensive, full-text database with in-depth reference content, including biographies, in the areas of literature, history, geography, science, and social studies. [more info...]
	Literature Criticism Online	Univ
	Contains the contents of four literature criticism titles: Children's Literature Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism [more info...]
	Marquis Who's Who on the Web (2 user limit)	Univ
	Provides access to current biographies of all individuals who appeared in any one of the many Marquis print titles since 1985. [more info...]
	Oxford African American Studies Center (3 user limit)	Univ
	This database is a comprehensive collection of over 7,500 biographical and research articles on African American history and culture. [more info...]
	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1 user limit)	Univ
	Contains 55,000 detailed biographical essays and over 10,000 pictures of people no longer living (from earliest times to present) who have had some significant connection to British history. [more info...]
	Oxford Reference Online (5 user limit)	Univ
	Provides over 185 fully-indexed, cross-searchable subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. [more info...]
	Salem History	Univ
	This is the online, full-text equivalent of three print resources: Milestone Documents in American History, Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, and Great Events from History: Modern Scandals. [more info...]