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Academic Search Complete openURL Resource contains images Some full text available

The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.


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Includes biographies and full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers on people from all eras and fields of endeavor. It also includes tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites.


Newspapers
Links to all kinds of newspapers, old and new.
Readers' Guide Retrospective. openURL
Readers’ Guide Retrospective™: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.

Biographical Information

American Presidents: Life Portraits Resource contains images Resource contains audio Some full text available
Features basic biographical information and "fun facts" about the nations presidents. Includes videos and sound clips.
Biographical Dictionary Resource contains images Some full text available
Biographies of 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.

Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science : Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the mid-20th Century.
Print Location: Reference Q 141 B5285 2000 Some full text available
Biographical information for 2,500 women scientists from antiquity to mid-20th  century ( all are dead).  Give several paragraphs of information for each woman and bibliographic references.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
 A comprehensive index to biographical sources. One simultaneous user.
Biography in Context
Biography In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
Biography Reference Center Some full text available
A comprehensive collection of more than 460,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
Biography.com Resource contains images Some full text available
Has free brief full-text biographies

Contemporary Authors.
Print Location: Reference PN453 .C614

Current Biography.
Print Location: Reference CT 100 C8 Resource contains images Some full text available
Articles that are several pages in length about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment. Includes a bibliography
Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Print Location: Reference CT 103 E56 Resource contains images Some full text available
Has several page articles about the 7,000 most famous people of all time. Includes a bibliography.
Internet Public Library - Biography

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Print Location: Reference Q 141 N45 2008 Resource contains images Some full text available

the-artists.org Resource contains images Some full text available
Biograhies of major modern & contemporary visual artists.  Some links lead to fee-based content.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Credo Reference Resource contains images Some full text available
37 biographical encyclopedias on people from all walks of life.

Online Book Collection

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This EBSCOhost eBook collection provides access to over 138,000 titles covering a wide variety of subject areas. It is comprised of the following sub-collecctions:

      eBook Academic Collection
      eBook Clinical Collection
      eBook Community College Collection
      eBook High School Collection
      eBook K-8 Collection
      eBook Public Library Collection
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