Basic Reference Sources : Biographies

Start with these resources. For more in-depth coverage of resources of this type, see the Biographical Information research guide. For more resources of this type, search for biographies in the Subject field of Advanced Search screen of the Library Catalog.

Oxford Reference Online contains more than 130 subject dictionaries and reference works of Oxford University Press. ORO covers general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professional subjects.  It includes English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian as well as Oxford Companions and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

For additional resources and in-depth assistance, see the following reference research guides: