 Best Bets - Top Search Tools in Biographies |
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 Biography & Genealogy Master Index |
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Do a search on a name and find places in reference books where you can find info on the person  |
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Contemporary Authors |
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Full text biographies of writers, poets, journalists, playwrights & more. |
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Literary Reference Center |
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More than 156,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios). |
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Oxford Reference Online - Dictionaries/Encyclopedias |
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Just do a search here on the person's name & pull up entries from a variety of good sources |
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Gerritsen Women's History Online |
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Full text and image info for women who lived 1543 - 1945. Great historical resource. |
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North American Immigrants Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories |
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Letters, diaries and personal narratives make this a unique historical biography resource. |
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Oxford African American Studies Center |
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Access to reference resources in African American studies. |
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Academic Search Complete |
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Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals. |
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Dissertations & Theses Full Text |
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A highly comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997. |
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E-Books |
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Access scholarly e-books in a variety of subject areas, from several vendor collections. |
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Lexis Nexis Academic Universe |
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Full-text news & newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information. |
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