Biographical Resources
Standard Biographical Resources in the Yale Stacks
(Yale site)
Pre-1800 European Book Trade Personnel
(Yale site)
World Biographical Information System
Biography Reference Center
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
American National Biography
Gale Literary Index
Authority Tools for Audiovisual & Music Catalogers
Oxford Music Online
(includes Grove)
Oxford Art Online
(includes Grove)
Getty Union List of Artists' Names
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
(for architects' obituaries)
American Friend Obituary Index
Newspaper Obituaries
Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
UMI Dissertation Express
Social Security Death Index
Index to the Neue Deutsche Biographie & the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective
by Ndlovu Sambulo (e-book)
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