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• Biographies Plus Illustrated

  
  Includes biographical coverage from Current Biography, the World Authors Series, the Junior Authors & Illustrators series and more. It features more than 140,000 narrative profiles and more than 30,000 images.

• Dictionary of Literary Biography

  
  Essays that outline the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarize the critical response to their work. (Full-text)

Multi-subject Databases Recommended for
Biography Research
 

• Discovering Science

  
  Encyclopedia-like coverage of natural sciences. (Full-text)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

  
  The online version of the standard encyclopedia, covering a wide range of topics. Also useful as a guide to the World Wide Web, providing links to rated sites. Provides some magazine articles as well. (Full-text)

• Grove Dictionary of Art

  
  Signed articles covering both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more). Also includes over 30,000 links to colour images from high-quality museum and other art sites, plus over 100,000 images from The

• Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians

  
  An extensive encyclopedia of music. (Full-text)

• Handbook of Texas Online

  
  A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin. (Full-text)

• Heritage Quest

  
  This genealogy database provides access to US Federal Census records from 1870-1930 and to over 25,000 family and local histories. (Full-text)

• History Resource Center -- United States

  
  Combines more than 1,000 primary documents with information from reference sources, plus full-text coverage of a selection of magazines and history journals. (Full-text)