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  • American National Biography
    The American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. The ANB Online features over 2,700 illustrations, more than 80,000 cross-references, and links to select web sites.

    Congressional Biographical Dictionary
    A guide to all members of Congress, from 1774-present. Search by state, date of term, name, party, or position.

    Oxford Islamic Studies Online

    This comprehensive resource brings together over 4,500 articles from several authoritative reference works on Islamic studies, including the new Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (6 volumes, 2009), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Hanna Kassis's A Concordance of the Qur'an, two translations of the Qur'an published in the Oxford World's Classics series, and What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam. Also includes helpful resources like timelines, a glossary of Islamic terms, links to select websites, and primary sources.

    The Barber Library's access to this resource is provided by the NEH and ALA Muslim Journeys Grant.


    Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
    Everything you wanted to know about the presidents of the United States, including biographies, election results, cabinet members, and notable events.

  • From the Library's Encyclopedia Collection:

  • AccessScience
    AccessScience is the online version of the comprehensive McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. It includes the articles you'd expect in an academic encyclopedia, plus images and video, current news, definitions of scientific terms, and a study center for scientific topics.

    African American Almanac
    Provides a range of historical and current information on African American history, society and culture. Includes coverage of such topics as: Africa and the Black diaspora; film and television; landmarks; national organizations; population; religion; science and technology; and sports.

    Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
    Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

    Credo Reference
    More than 550 highly regarded, current reference works, including general and subject-specific encyclopedias, images, dictionaries, atlases, and directories; covers many subject areas.

    Literature Resource Center
    The world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database. Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.

    Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia
    Covers women of historical interest worldwide, from around 3100 BCE to the modern age, from every walk of life-artists, pirates, scientists, athletes, philanthropists, adventurers, politicians, pacifists, saints, and courtesans, even those famous for just being famous. Individual, collective, and joint entries (i.e. Astronauts: Women in Space, Egyptian Feminism, Siege Warfare and Women, etc.) are included.