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Biographical research

The databases listed below are excellent resources to use in order find background information about the person you are researching.

Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine and journal articles, primary sources, and multimedia content. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers.

Explora (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Reference, magazine, newspaper, perspective and peer-reviewed articles on all subjects.

American National Biography (Oxford) This link opens in a new window "Offers portraits of more than 19,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- who lives have shaped the nation."

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) This link opens in a new window Biographies and portraits of famous, infamous, and fascinating people from every period of British history.

CREDO This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature.
ProQuest Academic This link opens in a new window ProQuest Central Student is a multi-disciplinary database providing abstract & indexing with select full text for many core scholarly journals as well as popular press periodicals. Why use this resource? ProQuest Student is a large, multi-subject database which is an ideal place to begin research. What's included? ProQuest Central covers all major disciplines, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities. Includes full text newspapers.  
Search multiple databases on the ProQuest platform including: Academic Video Online, Coronavirus Research Database, Ebook Central, ProQuest Central Student, ProQuest Professional Education, and Publicly Available Content Database.

Britannica School This link opens in a new window
An integrated resource that not only provides articles by school level, but also links to newspaper and magazine articles, websites, primary resources, and e-books! Includes images, videos, and a dictionary.