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| A standard source for U.S. historical biography, it includes over 17,400 biographies. The database is fully searchable and includes illustrations, cross-references, and links to external web sites. ANB Online is considered a successor to the print reference resource titled American National Biography (24 volumes ; published in 1999). The online version also includes new articles on persons omitted from the printed version or deceased since 1999. | |
| This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who, find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people. | |
| Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. | |
| Includes 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002. |