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African American Biography Database (Chadwyck-Healey) 
Access to this database ended July 1, 2009.
Coverage: profiles from 1790 to pre
With content from Black Biographical Dictionaries (1790-1950) and Black Biography (1790-1950): Cumulative Index, this resource includes portraits of well-known and everyday African American such as activists, business people, former slaves, artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, athletes, farmers, and scientists. As the database continues to grown, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added. |
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Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: bi-annually.
Provides citations from biographical dictionaries, volumes of literary criticism, and Who's Who for biographies of over 4 million people. |
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Contemporary Authors (Gale)
Coverage: 20th century authors. Updated: quarterly.
Includes biographical information, a list of the author's writings, awards received, and references to further information about the author.
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Grove Music Online (Grove)
Coverage: Early Middle Ages to present. Updated: monthly.
This online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music contains over 30,000 articles on every aspect of the music world including bibliographies on composers and musicians and hundreds of carefully selected and classified links to international musical sites. Now available through the Oxford Music Online gateway, Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition. Oxford Music Online also includes access to the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music
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Literary Index (Gale)
Updated: quarterly.
Literary Index is a master index which combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. Search this resource to find locate entries in the library's literature reference books: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, and Shakespearian Criticism. |
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Who's Who (Marquis)
Coverage: 1607 to present. Updated: daily.
Comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and more.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Resource Guide
Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: Daily.
Provides access to citations and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines and journals, with full text access to over half these titles. For scholarly publications, full text is available for more than 3,600 titles covering subjects such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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JSTOR
Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001.
Access to the full text of over 490 scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines. Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001. |
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LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
Over 5,600 full text sources.
News: 350 newspapers, 400 magazines/journals, 600 newsletters, broadcast transcripts, campus news, wire services.
Business: news, accounting literature, company information, directories.
Legal Research: secondary literature, case law, codes & regulations, tax law, international legal materials, patent research, career information.
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