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Library Subject Guides
Biography
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A Selective Guide to the Library's Resources on This Subject
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| Subject Headings |
| These subject headings may be used to locate books in the Pellissippi Library Catalog and netLibrary eBook collection. |
| Also search for Biographies under ethnic and individual groups: |
| Call numbers for browsing |
| Use this call number to browse the circulating and reference collections: |
| Databases |
| For a complete list of databases: Databases A-Z |
| Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. Access Science - (online) - Electronic version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: includes biographies. AP Multimedia Archive (Associated Press) - AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive contains approximately 700,000 photos. (Best viewed with Internet Explorer.) Discovering Collection- Covers various fields and individuals from the areas of history, science, social science, and literature. LexisNexis Academic - LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and general reference information. It includes full text newspaper access to local (Knoxville News Sentinel), regional, national, international, and foreign language news periodicals. Updated frequently throughout the day. Oxford Reference Online - provides searchable access to 100 dictionary and reference titles published by Oxford Press. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (online)offers over 72,000 narrative profiles of figures from antiquity to the present. * You may access online databases from off-campus computers by entering your general computer account username and password (used for PSTCC e-mail). NOTE: Enter your username in this format example: s_jmdoe. It is not necessary to add "@pstcc.edu" for this application. |
| Reference Books |
| American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. REF CT 213 .A68 The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.(all campuses) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. REF CT 103 .C26 1994 Current Biography. New York: H.W. Wilson. REF CT 100 .C8 Published annually and covers prominent figures each year. Dictionary of World Biography. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press. REF CT 104 .D54 1998 Ancient world through present. Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Scribner's. REF Q 141 .C55 2000 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill. REF CT 103 .M27 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Washington, DC: Macmillan. REF ML 100 .N48 1988 Tennessee Biographical Dictionary. St Clair Shores, MI: Somerset. REF CT 261 .T46 2000 Women in World History: a Biographical Encyclopedia. 17 vols. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications. REF HQ 1115 .W6 1999 |
| Web Resources |
| Biography.com (http://www.biography.com) The A&E channel's popular, award-winning documentary series includes 25,000 biograpical entries of past and present notable subjects. WWW Virtual Library: General Reference, Biographical (http://home.istar.ca/~obyrne/biog.html) - Contains links to many biographical resources. |
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