A-Z and Subject Databases: Biographical Works

Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,700 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals. The database features PDF content going back as far back as 1887.

Provides biographical information on a wide range of people

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Provides selected full-text of biographical information on authors and critical analysis of literary texts.

This combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.