Reference:BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

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BIOGRAPHY (HISTORICAL AND CURRENT SOURCES)

See http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/vrd.shtml#biographies and http://dometest.sdsu.edu/research/databases/biography_new.shtml

Some useful biographical sources include:

Biography Index (Ref CT214 .B55)

Who's Who in America (Ref E663 .W56)

Current Biography Yearbook (indexed in Ebsco Academic Search Premier) (Ref CT100 .C8)

American Men and Women of Science (Ref Q141 .A474) (also online)

Also see the CT section of Reference and a good number of ebooks.

Other places to look include

Contemporary Authors (Ref PN453 .C63 and online)

American National Biography (CT213 .A68 Ref -- also online)

Dictionary of American Biography (E176 .D563 Ref)

Dictionary of National Biography (British) (DA28 .D4 Ref -- also online)

Also see general and specialized encyclopedias like Britannica or the Encyclopedia of Psychology, as well as Lexis Nexis under "Reference."

American Biographical Archive (C-2387)

World Biographical Index at http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/wbi_en/ or http://www.saur-wbi.de/

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress: http://bioguide.congress.gov/

Find a Grave: http://www.findagrave.com (obituaries, death notices, etc.). Also see "Who's Alive and Who's Dead" at http://www.wa-wd.com

Obituary resources: Lexis Nexis, New York Times Obituaries Index, "Obituaries" in the PAC.

San Diego Public Library (SDPL) has an online resource called Biography Resource Center, and so does San Diego County Library (SDCL). (Requires SDPL library card for remote access).

Scientific biographical sources: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~harkanyi/resources/pages/scibiography2.html (also see http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/hungarian/scientists.shtml ).

Other biographical information: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/refshelf/refshelf-bio.html

See also Biographies of Writers and Autobiographies and Latino Biography

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