A-Z and Subject Databases: Biographical Works
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Biographical Works Databases
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Academic Search CompleteAcademic 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.
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Biography (Gale in Context)Provides biographical information on a wide range of people
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Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
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Literature Resource Center (Gale)Provides selected full-text of biographical information on authors and critical analysis of literary texts.
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WorldCatThis combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.