Biography Research Guide:

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)   Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals.
• Biographies Plus (Wilson)   95,000+ biographies & photographs
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index   Citations to in-depth biographical sources.
• Biography Reference Bank (Wilson)   Contains biographical information on ~500,000 people, from antiquity to the present, with thousands of images. It contains the articles from >100 volumes of Wilson biographical reference books, including Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, & biographical books on musicians & composers. Also included are thousands of biographies from Macmillan UK, Greenwood, Houghton Mifflin, Harvard University Press and others.
• Biography.com   Biographies of contemporary popular figures.
• Distinguished women of past and present   Biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.
• Heritage Quest (UMI)   Assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.
• Nobel Prize Laureates   Lists all prize winners past and present in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics, physiology & medicine.
• ProQuest Direct (UMI)   Index to 4,000+ periodicals, many full-text. This link searches multiple databases, including Research Library, ABI/Inform, Dissertations & Theses, & ProQuest Newspapers.
• Public Papers of the Presidents   Digital version covers Presidents Hoover (1929-) to Clinton. University of Michigan.
• SIRS   Full-text articles on arts, humanities, government & general research.