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Biography Databases
 
Subscription Databases
Available Only to the WSC Community:
Biography
Resource Center.
Includes full
text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search by nationality, birth or
death year, ethnicity, occupation, gender - or combine criteria for a highly
customized search. Includes the full text of standard
reference titles such as Webster's Biographical Dictionary,
Encyclopedia of World Biography (25 vols.),
Dictionary of American Biography
(20 vols.), Newsmakers
and 20 titles in the
Who's Who
series.
Note: Access to
the Gale Thomson Group of databases is made possible by the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners, and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
This project is funded by the state of Massachusetts.
Encyclopedia
Britannica - information from the encyclopedia, plus links to
selected web sites.
Grove
Art Online - Contains over 45,000 signed articles on the visual arts,
and links to over 130,000 images. On the main page, under "Advanced
Search" click the link for the biography search engine.
Lexis-Nexis
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Full-text biographical
articles culled from journals, magazines and newspapers..
Other Web
Resources - selective list of free sites
- Awesome Library
- great site for kids; categories such as heroes, composers, ethnic
groups, politicians, scientists etc.
- The Biographical Dictionary - covers
more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from
ancient times to the present day
- Biographical Guide to Congress -
standard in most library reference collections in print form; online
edition covers 1774 - present. Search by name, state, party, year or
Congressional session. Also guide to research collections where
presidential papers are housed.
- Biography Center
- multi-lingual
biographical dictionary; 11,011 biographies - also links to other
sites
- Biography.com - 25,000
of the greatest lives past and present. Presented by A & E
Television Networks
-
Dictionary of Canadian
Biography - Flash version or HTML; searchable
- Distinguished Women of the Past and
Present - search by name or subject (chronological before the 20th
century). Profiles of women who contributed to our culture in many
different ways
- From
Revolution to Reconstruction - historical persons related to
American history from the colonial period until modern times.
- History
of Mathematics -Biographies - University of St. Andrews,
Scotland, School of Mathematics and Statistics. Alphabetical and
chronological indexes; also search just female mathematicians
- In
the First Person - Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories,
and Other Personal Narratives. Access scholarly
material freely available on the Web. Ordinary people from all walks of
life alongside those of the well-published and famous.
- Info Please - 30,000
biographical profiles and special features about newsworthy people
around the world; searchable by name or subject category
- Noble Prize Winners - Nobel
Prize winners, by date or category; full biographies
- Presidents of the U.
S. - from the White House history site
- POTUS:
Presidents of the United States - background information, election
results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest
on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents,
audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included
to enrich this site from the Internet Public Library
- Well
Known People Who Happen to Be Canadian - actors, artists,
journalists, etc.
- Women's International Center - brief
biographies, most with color picture
- World
of Scientific Biography - search by branch of science, gender,
nationality, historical periods.
Links to Other Biography Sites on
the Web
- BUBL
Link - annotated catalogue of Internet Resources
- Biography
Search Engines - links to a multitude of sites; useful for specific
categories such as Americans only, presidents, celebrities, deceased,
women, British monarchs etc.
- Internet Public Library
- annotated
links to biography sites around the Web
- Library Spot -
general biographies, by type (artists, authors, etc.) or ethnicity
- Ref
Desk - links to 34 of the best biographical sites, including
many sites specifically by subject categories
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