Selected Biographical Sources
These resources are available to anyone on campus. They are also available off campus to Chemeketa students and employees.
- Resources that are available to anyone, anywhere, are marked with a "world" symbol.
- Resources available to Chemeketa users are marked with an information button that links to more information about the database.
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• Biographies Polysearch Engine Search up to six biographical sources at once.
• Biography.com - http://www.biography.com The site for the TV program, "Biography." Has short biographical entries on thousands of persons.
• Dead People Server Answers the question, "Has [famous person] died?" Has dates of birth and death, and sometimes links to other biographical material.
• Discovering Collection Includes more than 28,000 biographies
• Distinguished Women of the Past And Present Offers biographies of many women throughout history, along with links to biographies on other Web sites.
• Encyclopedia of World Biography Covers persons from various cultures and time periods - Artists
- • Oxford Art Online (Grove Art Online) Numerous biographies of artists
• Union List of Artist Names Online Getty Research Institute listing; may point to possible source of information
- Authors, illustrators, editors, & publishers
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• Literature Resource Center Includes articles from Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Authors, New Revision. Over 135,000 persons are covered.
- Biography By Ethnicity
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• African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
• African Americans in the West Covers both modern and historical persons. In narrative form; use the search to find an individual.
• Dictionary of Jewish Biography Contains brief biographical information on over 3000 persons
• Great Lives from History: Latinos A three volume work covering over 500 Latinos in the United States from the 1700s to the present
• Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary - Musicians
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• AllMusic Guide Brief biographies of musicians.
- Politicians
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• Biographical Directory of the American Congress
• Hutchinson Dictionary of Modern Political Biography Brief biographical information for living and dead politicians from all over the world.
• IPL2 POTUS (Presidents of the United States of America)
- Regional
- • Liberators, Patriots, and Leaders of Latin America: 32 Biographies
- Scientists
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• American Men & Women of Science (Gale Virtual Reference) Profiles scientists living at the time of publication (2010).
• Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Gale Virtual Reference) In-depth biographies on scientists of all periods.
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs has many volumes on ebrary College Complete Life histories of deceased members of the Academy.
• Women in the Biological Sciences: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook Sixty-five women from different places and times - Women
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• Dictionary of Women Worldwide (Gale Virtual Reference) Brief biographies of over 20,000 women in all ages.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present Offers biographies of many women throughout history, along with links to biographies on other Web sites
• Women in the Biological Sciences: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook Sixty-five women from different places and times
• Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia (Gale Virtual Reference) A 17 volume collection of biographies from ancient times through the present.
Finding Additional Biographies
Search the library catalog for ebooks:
Chemeketa has more specialized biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias:
• Browse biographical dictionaries
Search within e-book collections (search within the texts of ebooks)
Search in Ebrary College Complete
Search in NetLibrary
Choose another e-book collection to search
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Address of this page: http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/virtual/biography.php
Updated: 21 March 2013
