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Journalist Resource organizes hundreds of topics by subject and provides links to valid information sources.

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Biography in Context
Over 600,000 biographical entries about more than 5,000 contemporary and historical figures. Provides information about both the person and the times in which they lived. Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text. From GaleCengage.
Biography Reference Bank
Over 700,000 full-text biographical articles, 35,000 images and additional abstracts from both academic journals and popular magazines. Search for individuals based on any combination of occupation, activity, gender, place of origin, birthday and lifespan. From Ebsco.
Biography Reference Center
400,000 biographical articles. Searcy by keyword or locate biographies by subject occupation, nationality, activity, gender, lifespan, birthplace, birthday, and more.
Source types that include concise and detailed biographies, interviews, obituaries and related articles. From Ebsco.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
300+ e-reference books in all subject areas. Use instead of Wikipedia.

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RefSeek
A search engine designed for students and researchers, RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. Results are narrower than Google's, giving greater emphasis to scientific and academic websites.