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Contains more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of famous persons (including historical and contemporary figures.)  The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.  Includes full-text biographical articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history.

Full-text biographical information on more than 250,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.  Biographies can be located by subject name or by one or more personal facts such as birth and death years, places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

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Provides full text for over 2,000 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and much more.  Coverage varies by publication.  Some full-text PDFs from 1985 to present.

Biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. This collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Comprehensive biographical dictionary focused on American history offering portraits of more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation.  Covering the diversity of American social political, cultural, religious, economic, scientific, and popular life the online edition is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency.  The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, and links to selected web sites.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Thumbnail biographies of everyone who has served in the House or Senate from 1774-1989.  Post 1989 only lists are provided.  Sketches include name, state represented, birth/death information, education, public service positions held, etc.

This database contains records for more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  Also included is the full text content for nearly 900,000 dissertations.  Includes extensive coverage of North American graduate schools, with coverage of some European universities beginning in 1989.  A separate database contains the subset of Marquette University doctoral dissertations in full text.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Coverage for nearly 400 newspapers.  The collection includes newspapers from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.  Specific newspapers covered in the collection include: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The London Times, The Atlanta Constitution, Indianapolis Star, Newport Daily News, The Bridgeport Post, and the Times (London).  Coverage varies by title.  Earliest coverage begins mid-1700s.  Database Coverage List

Coverage of 300 + National and International news sources including the following:  Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, New York Times, Star Tribune, Times of London, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin State Journal.

An online version of the 60 volume print edition containing 50,000 biographies of individuals affecting all aspects of British history.  The biographical entries contain bibliographies, and there are over 10,000 images.  One can search in the full text as well as by place, date, and fields of interest.  A guide for citing the biographies is included (four formats - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Chicago [notes], Chicago [bibliography], and MLA).  Covers the 4th century through 2000.

Indexing, abstracts and selected full text or full images of articles in a wide range of magazines and journals.  It includes general interest and news publications as well as selected scholarly journals.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles; some full text and full image articles.  Coverage varies by title with good coverage for late 1980's to present, some earlier coverage.

Wall Street Transcript is a journal (originally published in print, and it still is; it began publication in 1963) whose content consists of transcripts of interviews with CEO's and other high-level corporate executives, and transcripts of interviews with investment analysts and money managers.  The transcripts are generally 2000 - 4000+ words each (except for the analyst roundtables which are considerably longer).  1997 to present.

Combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  1980 to present.  VPN recommnded for off-campus access.

The Complete Marquis Who's Who is included in the Biography Resource Center.  This file contains more than 900,000 thumbnail biographies from 20 Marquis sources including Who’s Who in America, Who Was Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.