CSU Library Biography Subject Guide

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Databases and Journal Indexes

Databases and Journal Indexes

Biography in Context (Gale) DISCUS icon

Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. Merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Biography Index Past and Present (H.W. Wilson on EBSCOHost)
A comprehensive biographical resource. Includes over a million article and book citations, retrospective coverage from Biography Index back to its first publication in 1946, and coverage of present-day newsmakers.

Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson on EBSCOHost)
Provides in-depth, original profiles, full-text journal articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, obituaries, and more. Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images.

Credo Reference DISCUS icon

Provides access to more than 600 subject-specific encyclopedias, biographies, chronologies, dictionaries, and reference titles from over 80 publishers, covering every major subject. Offers over 200,000 images and audio files and nearly 100 videos. Over 10,000 Topic Pages present and organize a variety of information resources on a subject and act as a starting point for research.

Current Biography Illustrated (H.W. Wilson on EBSCOHost)
Offers the content of the printed monthly magazine Current Biography, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, in searchable, electronic format. Provides accurate, up-to-date biographies drawing information from newspaper articles, magazine articles, and books. Searchable by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, titles of works and key words for more than 25,000 articles and obituaries. In addition, profiles maintained in this database feature more than 19,500 images, and offer the subject's own views, attitudes and commentary as well as the commentaries of other journalists and colleagues. Includes profiles on celebrities, politicians, business people, writers, actors, sports figures, artists, scientists, and many others.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contains more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.

EBSCO eBook Collection
A collection of over 21,000 electronic books available in full text online. These titles may be searched in the library's catalog or directly in the EBSCO database. Formerly known as NetLibrary, titles in this collection cover all subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale Group)
The electronic books included in this collection are provided by the CSU Library and are in the categories of: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science. See also the GVRL ebooks provided by DISCUS.

General OneFile (Gale InfoTrac)
A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines ranging from architecture to biology and history to mathematics.

Points of View Reference Center (EBSCOHost) DISCUS icon

Intended for public, academic, and high school libraries, Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.

WorldCat
A shared catalog that provides information about books, periodicals, audio/visual materials, etc. from thousands of libraries around the world and indicates which libraries hold the items.