Databases in Biography
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Database details Academic OneFile

Coverage: 1980-present
Scope: A huge and highly heterogeneous multidisciplinary mix of scholarly, journalistic, practitioner and popular sources, with much direct full-text included. Use the tabs to identify scholarly, newspaper or other sources as necessary.
Notes: Scholarly, journalstic, practitioner, popular sources. Thanks to Mel
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Database details America's Newspapers

Coverage: 1999 - present
Scope: Detroit News: 1/1/1999 to the present Grand Rapids Press: 8/1/2000 to the present Lansing State Journal: 1/1/1999 to the present
Notes: Three newspapers. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Biography & Genealogy Master Index

Scope: This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Notes: Thanks to Mel
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Database details Biography Index

Scope: It indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for biographical subjects from antiquity to the present.
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Database details Contemporary Authors

Scope: Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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Database details Dictionary of Literary Biography

Coverage: DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Seri
Scope: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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Database details Google Scholar

Scope: You can check the availability of article full text from within Google Scholar - see how!.
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Database details Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Scope: NEWS: full text access to newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, news wires, and transcripts. News sources are never scholarly, but they can give you up-to-date information on current events. BUSINESS: access to financial and business information for specific companies. It's most accurate when you limit your search by sources, such as Hoover's Company Reports, S&P Corporate Descriptions, American Markeplace, and Tax Analysts Publications. LEGAL: you can search for legal information such as court decisions, legal codes, legal news, and law journals. The coverage includes information both at the state level and at the federal level.
Notes: Some scholarly.
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Database details New York Times Historical

Scope: Offers full-text, full-image articles from1851 – 2003 of The New York Times. The database can be used to search national and international news, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, plus historical photos and advertisements. The documents are downloadable in PDF format
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Created on 11/15/06 by K. Condic; / Last updated on 10/21/09 by MG
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