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Biography Databases
Core Databases
AccessScience
Go to Biographies tab for more than 2000 biographies of well-known scientists.
American History Online
500 years of American political, military, social, and cultural history.
American National Biography Online
More than 18,000 articles about famous Americans no longer living.
Biography Reference Bank
Biographical full-text articles, page images, and abstracts.
Credo Reference
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.
Discovering Collection
Reference including history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
LexisNexis Academic
From the main LexisNexis page, choose "People."
Literature Online: Reference Edition
Literary criticism, reference and biography.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Collection of African American reference materials including Africana and the new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895. Fully searchable.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
50,000 biographies of deceased British history makers from 4th century BC to 2001.
Today's Science: Biographies @ FACTS.com
Scientific biographies linked by scientific disciplines.
World Almanac Encyclopedia: Biographies
Biographies listed alphabetically.
For more detailed descriptions of these databases, visit the Alphabetical List of Databases.