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Databases

Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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Cites biographical material appearing in periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Subject Coverage:
biographical information
Dates of Coverage:
July 1984 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 500,000 people
more than 36,000 images
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
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Designed specifically for public libraries, it provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags.
Subject Coverage:
numerous subjects
Dates of Coverage:
PDF content back to 1975
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
Nearly 1,700 full-text periodicals
MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
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Designed specifically for high school libraries containing full text for nearly 500 popular magazines and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. Information in other formats is also included.
Subject Coverage:
covers a wide range of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
January 1984 to presentJanuary 1990 to present (for records with full text)
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
full text for nearly 500 popular magazines
more than 360 full-text reference books
85,670 biographies
over 107,000 primary source documents
over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
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Is a unified search interface for several authoritative music reference works.
Subject Coverage:
composer biographies, performer biographies, styles, terms, genres, geographic areas, instruments, acoustics, notation, ancient music, church music, popular music, opera, and jazz
Dates of Coverage:
the most recent editions that are available online
Update Frequency:
three times annually
Size:
unknown
Note:
Includes:
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Grove Music Online
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition
The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Dictionary of Music

Streaming video for biographies

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Is a large multi-disciplinary collection of streaming video.
Subject Coverage:
numerous subjects and disciplines are covered.
Dates of Coverage:
unknown

Update Frequency:
new titles are added individually (about 600 annually)

Size:
more than 24,000 titles

Notes:
Closed captioning is available using Windows Media Player and Flash Player.

Other resources

Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present