LibGuides: Biography Resources: UCNJ Biography Resources

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Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
Biography Reference Bank
Includes "biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). ...It covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images."
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors provides biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.

Gale Literature Resource Center

Gale Literature Resource Center provides up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

History Research Center

A searchable platform of all the Library's Facts on File History databases: African-American, American, Ancient & Medieval, and Modern World.

Master File Elite

This multidisciplinary database provides full text coverage of general interest subjects, and also includes reference books, image collections, maps and flags.

Video Collections

Academic Video Online: Premium
Academic Video Online: Premium consists of thousands of streaming videos from a large number of producers and distributors across a wide range of subject areas.
Films On Demand
Films on Demand is a streaming educational video resource. Many of the videos are close-captioned and/or have interactive transcripts.
Kanopy: Academic
Discover a vast collection of educational films, documentaries, and globally recognized foreign films, enhancing your classroom experience and beyond.

the following subject pages are available:

• Art and Architecture
• Business
• Education
• Everyday Health
• Film Studies
• Global Studies & Languages
• History
• Law & Criminal Justice
• Media & Communications
• Medicine
• Music, Theater & Dance
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sciences
• Sociology

eBook Collections

EBSCO eBooks
A number of books in electronic format covering a variety of subjects, from EBSCO.
Gale eBooks
Links to entire content of the Gale eBook titles that UCNJ has access to in this electronic library.
Infobase eBooks
Subjects include biographies, literary criticism, politics, science, criminology, women's studies, and more.
MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection
This eBook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports and travel.
ProQuest eBook Central
"A continuously expanding collection of multi-disciplinary eBooks...."