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Biographies
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  • American Men and Women of Science Authentication Required
    American Men and Women of Science is a biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological, and related sciences. Each edition includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses for each entrant where available. This resource is part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  • American National Biography
    Updates the Dictionary of American Biography with 7,000 new entries and 10,000 revised entries. Has occupational index.
    In addition to searching by sex, use the Special Collections Search This small, highly selective set of articles is recommended by Oxford editors to help students get started doing research in this massive, 19,000-biography collection
    • Location(s): Wilson Reference CT213.A68 1999
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  • Biography
    Read the journal Biography through Project Muse. From the site:” For over twenty years, Biography has been an important forum for well-considered biographical scholarship. It features stimulating articles that explore the theoretical, generic, historical and cultural dimensions of life-writing; and the integration of literature, history, the arts, and the social sciences as they relate to biography.”
  • Biographical Dictionary
    Produced by S9 Technologies, this website allows you to search its 30,000 biographical sketches of celebrated men and women worldwide. Searching the biographical dictionary is a snap--if you don't know the full name of the person you're search for, just type in the information you do have in the search boxes. Although some entries are fairly descriptive, others give little more than a complete name, occupation and birth and death dates.
  • Biography Reference Bank Authentication Required
    (Please note: this resource only allows four (4) simultaneous users. If you are denied access, please try again later)
    Biography Reference Bank combines the complete content of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated with the complete and enhanced content of Biography Index Plus. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Biography Index Plus is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books.
  • Contemporary Authors Authentication Required
    A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 100,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. Please note: our license only allows for one simultaneous user. If you are denied access please try again later.
    • Location(s): Also owned in print in Wilson Library's Reference Collection Z1224 .C65x
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  • Internet Public Library
    This metasite from IPL lists many biographical sites that are freely available on the web.

    The Internet Public Library is a project from the University of Michican School of Information, and offers a staggering amount of well-organized information sources, including reference materials (dictionaries, encyclopedias), subject collections from all areas of knowledge, and special collections (including literary criticism, Presidents of the United States, Native American authors and more).

  • LexisNexis Academic Authentication Required
    LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. Need some Lexis-Nexis searching help? Try our guided exercise on Searching LexisNexis Academic.
  • Marquis Who's Who
    Features comprehensive profiles on 1.2 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment,sports and more.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Authentication Required
    This reference work provides 50,000 specially-written signed 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.
  • Oxford Reference Online Authentication Required
    This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
Indexes to Biographical Information in Reference Books & Magazines
  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index Authentication Required
    A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Please note: BGMI allows only one U of M - TC user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait 15 minutes and try again.
    • Location(s): Also owned in print : Wilson (3rd Floor, non-circulating) QUARTO CT 214 .B51x
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