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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)

• Grove Dictionary of Art/Oxford Art Online

  
  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/Oxford Music Online

  
  An extensive encyclopedia of music. (Full-text)

Multi-subject Databases Recommended for
Biography Research
 

• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

  
  Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects; Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995 (Some full-text)

• Academic Search Complete

  
  Provides more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, with indexing and abstracts for 10,900 publications. Content goes back as far as 1865. Covers many academic disciplines including art, music, literature, history, sociology, psychology, government, and science. (Some full-text)

• 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)

• 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)

• InfoTrac OneFile

  
  A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

• Project Muse

  
  This multi-purpose database offers the full text of over 300 scholarly journals covering the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Updates JSTOR. (Full-text)

• Wilson OmniFile

  
  A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)