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Biography Resource Center
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Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as from Gale biographical sources. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
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Oxford Reference Online Premium
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The Oxford Reference Online contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, and Oxford Companions on art, biology, business, classics, computing, environmental science, economics, history, language, law, literature, medicine, physical science, political science, quotations, religion and philosophy, and science.
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Contemporary Authors
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Biographical, publication information & references about US & international authors. Current.
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Literature Resource Center
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Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Online version of the respected 10 volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Detailed information on people, ideas, and moral questions.
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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Online site for quality reference information on music and musicians, it includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, as well as full-text articles and numerous links to other web information.
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LEXIS-NEXIS Reference
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General reference sources: biographical information, country/state profiles, opinion polls, quotations & the World Almanac.
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Academic Search Premier
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The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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Indexing, abstracts (summaries) or full text for articles from a large selection of scholarly & general interest publications. Strongest in humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences & current events. 1980- .
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Masterfile Premier
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This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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