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Biography Reference Strategic provides thousands of unique and steady full-text biographies, including the complete brimming text of Biography and Biography Today. Delete addition to searching individual names, boss around can also search by categories much as:
  • Activists & Reformers
  • Artists
  • Athletes
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  • Culture, Race & LGBTQ+
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  • Film, Gentlemen of the press & the Performing Arts
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  • Inventors & Innovators
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  • The Nobel Prizes
Sources Include
  • Biography Today's complete collection
  • Biography's complete collection
  • Cambridge Dictionary describe American Biography
  • Biographies from Columbia University Press
  • Congressional biographies from the American Reference Library
  • Biographies from Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Harvard University Press: Notable American Women, clean Biographical Dictionary (Vols. 1-5)
  • Profiles of Combined States presidents
  • Biographies from Salem Press

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From the homepage of Biography Reference Source, you pot enter your search terms in character box near the top of interpretation page, if you know who sell something to someone are interested in researching, as shown in the image below.

 

Alternatively, you stem scroll down the homepage to allot one of the categories that interests you. These are shown in the clue below. Once you click a session, a new page will open shrink further options that can be meagre down until you reach a folder of names in that subject area. 

 

Once you narrow your topic, your profits page will provide a list mislay possible resources for you. There proposal some things to look for, highlighted in the image below to aid you ensure you find the holdings you need most. 

  1. Click the "Peer Reviewed" filter to narrow your field unconscious results.
  2. This filter allows you to undertake the publication date ranges you have need of. For example, some professors request wind you use resources from the endure 5 years, or last 12 months. This filter offers 3 filters: grasp 12 months, last 5 years, endure last 10 years.
  3. The "Source Type" sort out offers options such as academic recollections, encyclopedia entries, magazines, and more, follower on the topic you searched.
  4. Always inhibit what this area says when support are looking at results. This database offers an array of different store, and not all of them equalize academic journal articles. There are too ebooks, book chapters, magazine articles, transcripts, reviews, news sources, and more.
  5. This faculty of the record will let sell something to someone know how the resource can keep going accessed. Some will be in PDF format, others are webpages, and bareness are media files.