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Research Databases: Biography & Genealogy

Off-campus access: the system will prompt you to enter your 14-digit library barcode number located on the back of your college ID/library card. No college ID or library card? Request a college ID or library card barcode number.

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  • Credo Reference
    (Credo) Includes materials from over 650 reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
  • Gale in Context: Biography
    (Gale) Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
  • Gale Literature Resource Center
    (Gale) Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources. Note: Use the Person Search and filter results to Biographies.
  • Oxford Art Online 
    (Oxford University Press) includes Grove Art  Full text art reference covering all the visual from prehistory to the 1990's with image links.
  • Oxford Music Online (LSC-Tomball & LSC University Park)
    (Oxford University Press) Online music reference source includes articles from the Oxford Companion to Music, Grove dictionaries of American music, jazz , opera, and musical instruments, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers 
    (ProQuest) Over 30 million digital pages of seventeen American newspapers dating back to the 18th century.
  • Texas Reference Center
    (EBSCO) Help
    Over 80 full-text journals & books on Texas history, culture, and life, biographies of important Texans, and more.
Link to Databases by Title Search for magazines, newspapers, and journals by title Find Databases by Subject

  1. Search the Library Catalog. Request any circulating items not in your local library using the "Place Hold" button. Login with your 14-digit library barcode number and PIN.
  2. Looking for a specific article? Search the Full Text Finder for newspaper, magazine, or journal titles.
  3. Search WorldCat to find books and articles from libraries worldwide, then apply at your local library for a TexShare card to borrow them directly or request specific books and articles through interlibrary loan.

 

TexShare databases Selected databases are funded, in part, through TexShare, a division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, utilizing grant funds provided by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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