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Credo Reference

362 full-text reference titles with over 3 million entries from 60 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine. Credo Reference contains 17 biographical resources including a number of Marquis Who's Who...

LexisNexis Biographical

Use the the LexisNexis Biographical search form to find information on directors, politicians, celebrities and other leading figures in their field. The information returned may contain data such as positions, date of birth, education, achievements and interests.

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Includes the Marquis Who’s Who Biographies.

Literature Resource Center - LRC

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from various time periods
and genres. NOTE that the critical analyses tend to be book
reviews. To find references to scholarly literary criticism, search MLA Bibliography.

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Covers more than 100,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,400 of the most-studied authors.

Twayne Authors Series

Provides the content of nearly 600 books (each covering a single author or special topic) that comprise three print series - United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors. Provides critical introductions to the lives and works of the writers covered.

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netLibrary

8,000 recently published books, including scholarly, reference, and professional titles. More than 3,400 classic titles are also available.

You may actively view the full-text eContent (turning pages, searching within the full-text, etc.) in 15-minute increments. If you are not actively viewing an item, it returns to the collection for someone else to view.

If you create an account you may make a list of Favorites, make notes in individual full-text eContent items, and customize your account preferences.

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Encyclopedia of World Biography

7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods. Includes thousands of photos.

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Famous Sociologists

A long list of prominent Sociologists, containing names not often seen in other biographical websites. Some entries include links to primary documents. This page is sponsored through SocioSite.

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Great Social Theorists

Contains biographical information, bibliographies, related links, and a special quotes section from the prominent social theorists themselves.

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Biography resources - Finding information on the famous, infamous, and obscure

Websites sites chosen for the depth of their articles or the sheer bulk of biographical materials available.

Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles