Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

Biography Index
Index to a wide range of biographical material.  more info

Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Citations to sources of biographical information.  more info

More Databases

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, and reference publications.  more info

Wilson Select Plus
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

Biographical Dictionary
A service of S9 Technologies.  more info

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Biographical info of the U.S. Congress from 1774 to the present.  more info

Biography
From the Librarians' Index to the Internet.  more info

Biography resources
Finding information on the famous, infamous, and obscure.  more info

Biography.com biography find
Biography.com database for over 25,000 individuals.  more info

Catalog of the scientific community in the 16th and 17th cen
Collection of 631 detailed biographies on scientists of the 16th and 17th centuries.  more info

Internet Library for Librarians: Biographies
Provides links to biographical resources on Internet.  more info

POTUS
Presidents of the United States.  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

American national biography.
Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography.  more info

Biography and genealogy master index.
From 1980.  more info

Biography index.
From 1946.  more info

Current biography
From 1940.  more info

American biographical index
Edited by Laureen Baillie.  more info

Chambers biographical dictionary
Editors, J.O. Thorne, T.C. Collocott.  more info

Encyclopedia of biography
Edited by C.S. Nicholls.  more info

Webster's biographical dictionary
A dictionary of names of noteworthy persons.  more info