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  Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (Wilson) [Details]

Includes full-text profiles of persons, living and deceased, and prominent in many professions including literature, art, music, film, politics, education and history. The up-to-date bibliographies include links to book and articles about the person and in some citations there is a photograph of the person.

  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online [Details]

A reference work providing 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. State-of-the-art search options, ##extensive internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original DNB, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and important reference sites available online.

  Biography Resource Center (Gale) [Details]

A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 220,000 people from around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas and throughout history. Access to more than 330,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with full-text articles available from more than 250 magazines as well as more than 20,000 images, and in-depth coverage of key events.

  Who's who in the Twentieth Century (Oxford Online Reference) [Details]

This authoritative reference book provides biographies of men and women from different countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action of the twentieth century.

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  American National Biography Online [Details]

Biographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. All articles originally included in the ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995. Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in quarterly updates.

  Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) [Details]

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.

  Current Biography Plus Illustrated (WilsonWeb) [Details]

Contains the full text and all the images of the 23,000 biographies and obituaries of artists, politicians, business people, journalists, actors, writers, sports figures, scientists, and other people prominent in the news that have appeared in Current Biography Yearbook since 1940.

  Dictionary of Canadian Biography [Details]

15-volume series. This first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years

  Encyclopædia Britannica Online [Details]

Since the Encyclopædia Britannica's founding in 1768, Britannica editors have gathered and organized information on thousands of topics for easy retrieval.

  Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale) [Details]

Includes entries of approximately 7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods.

  Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale) [Details]

  Literature Online (Chadwyck) [Details]

A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

  Marquis Who's Who on the Web [Details]

Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. The database accesses current biographies that appeared in any one of the many Marquis print titles searching by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.

  Who's Who in American Art (Marquis) [Details]

Contains over 11,000 entries, including some 4,900 new and revised listings, detailed listings contain entrants’ dates and places of birth; education and training; commissions and exhibitions; museums holding their work; professional positions; awards; books and articles by and about them; the media in which they work; their dealers and representatives; and their mailing addresses.

  Who's who in American History (Marquis) [Details]

This database represents 400 years of biographical history which includes 110,000 "life stories" from 1607 to the present. Coverage of inventors, explorers, colonists, abolitions, important figures in business, government, the military, education, literature and other remarkable people who helped shape American history