Databases by Subject
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Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) | ||
| Indexes current and retrospective biographical reference works. No full text. Includes contemporary and historical figures from every field of activity and all areas of the world. | ||
| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale) |  |
2nd ed., 2004 |
| Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| Grove Music Online (Oxford) | |
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| Now part of Oxford Music Online, a collection of online music dictionaries and encyclopedias. | ||
| In the First Person | |
1550s-2000s |
| Index to more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Contains references to diaries, letters, and oral histories. | ||
| Literature Online (LION) | |
Dates vary |
| English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Limited to 4 simultaneous users | ||
| Twayne Author Series (Gale) | ||
| Literary criticism of English, American and world authors. Critical introductions to lives and works of writers, history and influence of literary movements, or development of literary genres. Presents major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism. Includes chronologies, biographies, critical analyses, and annotated bibliographies. | ||
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