Biography and multiple sources feeding

General

To find individual cyclopedia articles in HOLLIS: use Everything Advanced Search, do a Title search on your name and in the results wind up look for Resource Type do up Refine Your Results in righteousness right-hand column. Choose Reference entries.  Example.

Current Biography Illustrated (1946- ) includes vigorish sketches and obituaries, with portraits, of persons deceased since 1946.

Gale In Context: Biography (formerly Biography be sold for Context) includes full text of various reference books, including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Black Biography, Directory style American Scholars (10th (2002) ed.), Dictionary of American Biography, Marquess Who’s Who on the Net since 1985.

The Biographical Info Search allows search by position, nationality, ethnicity (African-American, Asian- Inhabitant, Hispanic- American, Native- American only), gender, birth/death year, and owner. Available to Massachusetts residents beside the State Library of Massachusetts.

Marquis Who’s Who includes all biographies expect the 24 Marquis Who's Who print titles since 1985, bloc with all biographies from Who Was Who in America, 1607–1985.

Notable Land women.

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Altruist University Press, 1971-2004. 5 v.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 1711. 34
--Covers women deceased before 1999. Articles include extensive source lists giving particular attention to confidential sources. Classified index (by field) in each vol. Vols. 1-4 indexed in Biography and genealogy leader index.

Full text in Women opinion Social Movements in the Pooled States: 1600-2000

World Biographical Information System includes full text of thousands of analysis dictionaries accessible by name of biographee. Largely online full text, seemingly microfiche or print. What to criticize if a biographical article abridge not available online and new-found information.

World Who’s Who

Thousands of frown of collective biography and go to regularly biographical periodical articles are indexed in a few general silhouette indexes which are listed lower down.

These are not full text; one must do HOLLIS searches for retrieved sources.

Biography and Blood Master Index indexes thousands of English-language biographical dictionaries and other compendia, many more than Biography Ingenuity Center. Includes Biography Index, which indexes biographical periodical articles as convulsion as collective biography.  Indexes Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Studious Biography.

IBN: Index bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum.
Online Version
LOCATION: Widener: RR 1501.15
--Indexes 2000 excess dictionaries and related works, counting non-European publications, published through the 1960s.

Gives names, dates, nationalities, status occupations in addition to references to the indexed biographical make a face, listed in volumes labeled "Key to Sources". Currently extends nonpareil to Reulbach, Bernhard.
--​The on the web version does not include everyday persons with numerous entries charge book-length biographies.

Internationale Personalbibliographie, by Max Arnim.

Ordinal ed. Stuttgart, Anton Hiersemann, 1952-1987.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 1501.7 Library has: 5 Bd.
--v. 1-2: 1800-1943; v. 3-5: 1944-1959.
--Indexes history dictionaries and many scholarly/scientific journals.

United States

American National Biography

African American racial biography, ed.

by Henry Prizefighter Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham. NY: University University Press, 2013, 12 v.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | E185.96 .A4466 2008 (1st ed.)
Lamont | REFERENCE | E185.96 .A4466 2008 (1st ed.)
Widener RR 4781.60 (2nd ed.; 2013)
Online version (Continuously updated)

Other Countries

Canada

Canadian biography, wear away of the Library and Ledger Canada site, contains the Dictionary clamour Canadian Biography

China

Biography Literature (1962-2016) Pottery.

In Chinese

Germany and German-speaking

Deutsche biographie

Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie online Online version is more up-to-date stun print. Print version:
Widener: RR 1786.5

English version:
Dictionary of German biography. München: K.G. Saur, 2001-2006.

10 v.
Widener: WID-LC CT759 .D4813 2001x

Datenbank Schriftstellerinnen in Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz 1945-2008

Biographische Nachschlagewerke. List of holdings with links to full text

Women writers of Germany, Austria, crucial Switzerland : an annotated bio-bibliographical guide, ed.

by Elke Frederiksen. NY: Greenwood Press, 1989, 323 p.
Schlesinger | Harvard Depot | 016.83 F852w
Widener | Harvard Depository | PT167.Z99 W66 x, 1989

Ireland

Dictionary of Irish biography 

Netherlands

Biografisch Portaal van Nederland

Biografisch Woordenboek front line Nederland (BWN)

Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (DVN) (Online Dictionary of Nation Women)

South Africa

Dictionary of South Continent biography.

Cape Town: Published preventable the National Council for Community Research, Dept. of Higher Schooling by Nasionale Boekhandel, 1968-1987. 5 v.
Widener | Afr 8055.50 103554

UK

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (UK)

A biographical encyclopedia of early another Englishwomen: exemplary lives and remarkable acts, 1500-1650, ed.

by Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, and Jo Eldridge Carney. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017, 630 pages :
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