Coverage of more than 18,000 people who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Please note, only one patron may access this database at a time.
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Subject Areas: U.S. History, People
American National Biography Online (ANB) is a biographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. Also included are over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History, which provides information on the landmark events in U.S. history and gives context to the lives included in ANB Online.
All articles originally included in ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995. Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in quarterly updates, but coverage of people in this category is not yet complete.
Format: Reference Works Update Schedule: Quarterly. Database Producer: Published by Oxford University Press, under the auspices of the The American Council of Learned Societies.
Contains the full text of biographies and obituaries of more than 500,000 people, ancient times to present.
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Subject Areas: All
Biography Reference Bank combines the complete content of Wilson's Biographies Plus Illustrated with the complete and enhanced content of Biography Index Plus.
Contains the full text of biographies and obituaries of more than 500,000 people. This includes all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history.
Also includes 36,000 photographs of individual subjects and bibliographic citations (with some abstracts and full text) of relevant material in periodicals indexed by other Wilson databases.
Format: Reference Works
Dates of Coverage: Ancient times to present
Update Schedule: Regularly
Database Producer: EBSCO / H.W. Wilson
Literary biographies of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights.
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Subject Areas: English, People
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online includes all volumes of Gale's reference set, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the main series, as well as Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. It features comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series concentrates on major literary figures with in-depth essays and related images such as manuscript pages and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors' lives. The Documentary series allows for further study of major literary figures through critical and biographical source materials.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series is annual compendium which includes original material covering a given year's literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and children's books we well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature.
Cross-searchable with the Literature Criticism database. Also features a link to the Literary Index.
Format: Full Text Journal, Reference Works Database Producer: Gale Cengage
Full text of 400 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
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Subject Areas: General
Oxford Reference combines Oxford Reference Online and Oxford Digital Reference Shelf to provide full text of 400 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press. Link directly to:
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