Biography Source was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson, and includes many unique biographies that were never previously available. Users can locate high-quality content through keyword searching, or can locate biographies of interest by category, including actors, authors, composers, explorers, figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world leaders, etc.

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Biography Source - Coming in 2013

This database provides access to a massive collection of over 600,000 in-depth biographies and obituaries, including thousands of narrative biographies that are unique to this resource. Biography Source includes the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, and provides unmatched coverage of Current Biography. 

Content includes:
  • Biography Today's Complete Collection
  • Biography's Complete Collection
  • 9,000 Biographies from American National Biography (Oxford University Press)
  • Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography
  • Columbia University Press Biographies
  • Congressional Biographies from the American Reference Library
  • Encyclopedia Britannica Biographies
  • Hutchinson’s Biography Database
  • Notable American Women (Harvard University Press)
  • People in the News Collection
  • Profiles of United States Presidents
  • Salem Press Biographies
  • Tens of Thousands of Images
  • And much more...
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