Biography In Context  

one-stop source for biographies on hundreds of thousands of notable individuals from throughout history, as well as figures at the center of current events and popular culture.

Lexis Nexis Library Express        [Remote Access]

Provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. Access over 10,000 unique news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use Company Dossier to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria.  (NOTE: TO USE THIS DATABASE FROM HOME, YOU MUST CLICK ON THE "REMOTE ACCESS" LINK. AFTER CLICKING ON THE REMOTE ACCESS LINK, YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR YOUR 14-DIGIT LIBRARY CARD BARCODE)

Literature Resource Center  

 Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 140,000 authors from every age and literary discipline with this database.

Science Online  

Offers a comprehensive,curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats. It includes science experiments, articles, definitions, biographies and multimedia – videos, animations and images.

Scribner Writers Online  

Provides access to the esteemed Scribner literature content, including the American Writers Collection, British Writers Collection, European Writers Collection and World and Genre Writers Collection.

Twayne's Author Series  

This database provides literary critical interpretation and discussion of nearly 600 authors and their works, as well as literary movements and genres. Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library, federally funded by LSTA grants.

Virtual Reference Library (Gale)  

Electronic versions of many popular Reference books.