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American Men and Women of Science
Profiles living persons in the physical and biological sciences, as well as public health, engineering, math, statistics, and computer science.

Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)
A database with biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, and obituaries for over 500,000 people, as well as over 36,000 images.
Biography Reference Center
A comprehensive collection of more than 460,000 full-text biographies, as well as thousands of narrative biographies.
Biography Reference eBook Collection
A large selection of biographical eBook titles with the full-text available.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Articles on the professional lives of scientists from classical antiquity to modern times.

Gale Literature
A full-text database that provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Provides concise, illustrated biographies of over 57,000 people associated with the British Isles, from the 4th century BC to the 21st century. This is the first place to go for British biographical information and bibliographies of additional biographical sources.