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Austin Public Library, Reference Databases

BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY

AccessScience (McGraw-Hill)
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AccessScience includes the full text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Weekly late-breaking science and technology news articles and comprehensive and current science biographies are also provided. The Student Center offers study guides, bibliographies, and suggestions for essay topics.

Ancestry.Library Edition (Ancestry.com and Proquest)
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With more than four billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry.Library Edition is a comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical research. Census records; birth, marriage, and death records; immigration records; vital and church records; military records; and court, land, and probate records are included. Popular databases include the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930, Social Security Death Index, Civil War records, U.S. Public Records Index, American Genealogical-Biographical Index, and slave narratives.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who (Gale)
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The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines approximately 330,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from the complete Marquis Who's Who. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people using name, birth dates, death dates, places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender. Criteria can be combined to create a custom search.

Britannica Online School Edition
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Britannica Online School Edition includes the complete Encyclop�dia Britannica Online, as well as Compton's by Britannica for middle school students and Britannica Elementary for elementary school students. Search results include magazine and journal articles from Ebsco. The Britannica Book of the Year covers notable events and people annually back to 1993. The encyclopedias also include videos, timelines, a world atlas, and illustrations including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags.

Handbook of Texas Online
Web Access
The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin. It contains over 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories.

HeritageQuest Online (ProQuest) $Texshare logo$
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HeritageQuest Online is designed to help amateur and professional genealogists, local historians, and public library patrons to search and use data from the U.S. Federal Censuses from 1790 to 1930, more than 20,000 full-text family and local histories, and PERSI, a subject index of 6,300 local history and genealogy periodicals. The database also includes Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land-warrant application files, as well as the Freedman�s Bank Records, an important resource for African-American genealogical research. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, and probate records.

Literature Resource Center (Gale) $Texshare logo$
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Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes, or combine criteria to create a custom search path. Resources included are

Contemporary Authors Online
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in the CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Selected material from Gale's For Students series
Selected material from Gale's Literature Criticism series

See also the Gale Literary Index, an author and title index to 40 major literature series published by the Gale Group. Many of these series are available in print form at the Austin Public Library.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) $Texshare logo$
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A multidisciplinary database, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 2,000 periodicals and general reference publications with information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier includes nearly 500 full-text reference books, including thousands of biographies and primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of thousands of photos, maps, and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

netLibrary eBooks $Texshare logo$
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netLibrary is a comprehensive collection of online books (eBooks) and resource materials. Using netLibrary, you can access a wide range of materials entirely online. You can search every word in the entire collection, as well as search within a particular eBook. The Texas State Library provides access to thousands of titles. There are also more than 4,000 public domain eBooks that are free to everyone in the Public Collection.

You must have an Austin Public Library netLibrary account to access the eBooks remotely. Create an account now!

Oxford Reference Online
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Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference books, including an encyclopedia, into a single cross-searchable web database. Search the whole database or limit your search by subject or by book. Broad subject categories included are general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional. The breadth of information contained in Oxford Reference Online allows you to explore words and ideas from a variety of different perspectives at once. Search results can be displayed by relevance, by size of entry, by book title, or alphabetically.

See a complete list of works included in the database.

Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
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Readers' Guide Retrospective contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The database covers the years 1890 through 1982. See Academic Search Premier or MasterFILE Premier for indexing and full-text articles from more current material.

ReferenceUSA Residential Directories (infoUSA)
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The ReferenceUSA database contains detailed information on 120 million households. ReferenceUSA's residential information is compiled from more than 3,900 White Page telephone directories. Each listing appears in the database exactly as it appears in the phone book. Information is available eight to 12 weeks after it appears in the phone book, and the file is processed through U.S. and Canadian National Change of Address records on a monthly basis. Each U.S. residential listing also contains information from the most recent U.S. census, including median household income, median home value, latitude/longitude and percentage of owner-occupied housing.

You may only print or download 50 records at a time in the library and ten records at a time remotely. See ReferenceUSA help pages for search hints and technical advice.

Student Resource Center Gold (Gale) $Texshare logo$
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Student Resource Center Gold provides reference material, overviews, critical essays, primary source documents, and full-text periodical articles from Gale's literary, science, history, health, and biographical databases. Search by subject, keyword, people, literature, and timeline event, or create a custom search. Results are returned by document type.

The reference databases are provided by the Austin Public Library and TexShare $Texshare logo$ , a program of the Texas State Library & Archives Commission.

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