Databases for Research: Biography

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AccessScience - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (McGraw-Hill) Provides science & technology encyclopaedic entries, including recent research developments, biographies of scientists, and late-breaking science and technology news. More Info

Canadian Literary Centre (EBSCO) Provides access to Canadian literary resources including: biographies, criticism, essays and book reviews. More Info

Current Biography (H.W. Wilson) Provides access to profiles and obituaries that have appeared in the Current Biography Yearbook since 1940. More Info

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Library and Archives Canada) Provides access to authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada's past, including both detailed articles on Canada's major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages. More Info

Literary Reference Center and Canadian Literary Centre (EBSCO) Provides access to author biographies, literary criticism, book reviews, essays, plot summaries, poetry, short stories and novels. More Info

Literature Resource Center (Gale) Provides access to literary criticism, biographical information, interviews and reviews on more than 140,000 authors and their works. More Info

Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art Online) (Oxford University Press) Provides access to an extensive art collection including: Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. More Info

Pop Culture Universe (EDU Reference / ABC-CLIO ) A digital library of information and book content on American and world popular culture, past and present. Useful for research on the history, events, trends, and fads of specific decades or historical eras. More Info

Short Story Criticism (Gale) Online access to the print version of Gale's Short Story Criticism series, offering analysis of short stories and other works of short fiction. More Info

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