Finding out about famous (and infamous) people is easy through the following links:
Biography Resource Center
This comprehensive database contains biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas. It combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources and also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals . You can search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
This website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have made their mark on this country. It does not include people who are alive, so you will not find people like Helen Clark or John Key, but you will find people like George Nepia or Michael Joseph Savage. The site includes the collected biographies originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biography series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga Tangata Taumata Rau. The 'Our Land, Our People' section includes material from the New Zealand Historical Atlas. It presents snapshots of places, times, events and trends in New Zealand history, linked to the biographical content.
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online comprises volumes 1 to 16 in the continuing series, and the Supplementary Volume, of the printed ADB. The over 10,000 biographical articles are concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history who died before 1980. Print publication details, including the year, accompany each article.
Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica Online offers over 73,000 encyclopaedia articles, both short and book-length. Other content includes over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, today's news headlines from the NZ Herald and BBC News, and links to relevant websites.
Discovering Collection
Designed for the secondary school student, the Discovering Collection includes biographies, criticisms, overview essays and timeline entries, images/multimedia, and primary source documents. Also searches Merriam Webster's Biographical dictionary.
MasterFILE Premier
This huge database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals covering a range of subjects including current affairs, business, entertainment, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. Also features full text from 88,000 biographies.
ProQuest ANZ Newsstand
This database offers full text access to national and provincial newspapers in Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand titles include The Dominion Post, The New Zealand Herald, The Press (Christchurch), Sunday Star-Times, Truth, and past issues of The Evening Post and The Dominion. Many titles can be searched going back several years.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online has more than 45,000 encyclopaedia-style articles on the visual arts, including more than 21,000 biographies of artists and craftsmen. While it is particularly strong on European art up to the 20th century, other cultures, countries, and regions are represented from pre-history to today.
Oxford Music Online
This database is the leading online resource for music research and features more than 50,000 articles on musicians, composers, musicologists, and much more.
All Music Guide
This excellent resource provides searching ability for artists, albums, songs, styles and labels. Extensive biographical details for artists are included.
Literature Resource Center
Includes biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on more than 120,000 authors and their works. Features include Scribner Writer's Series of 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres, as well as the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.
Business Source Elite
This database provides full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, it offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,800 journals. Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Forbes, California Management Review plus New Zealand Business. This database includes full text (pdf) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies. Content is updated daily.
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