US History: Industrializing America Biographies Project: Databases

More than 8500 magazines indexed. Complete articles from more than 4600 magazines. Some magazines cover dates earlier than 1975. Science, engineering, theology, language, literature magazines are included.

Resource Type: 
Articles- full text, Articles- peer reviewed, magazine articles

Use this database to find:
• Publications that contain biographies on a person of interest
• Biographies contained in a certain publication
• Family members of a person of interest.
• Biographies of people who are local notables such as business owners, civic leaders, and members of professional groups.
• Citations of biographical information, such as "What is the birthday of Ernest Hemingway?," "Where can I find a portrait of Dwight Eisenhower?," or "Is Charles Schulz dead?"
BGMI is a citation-only database covering a wide range of biographical entries in numerous publications. Citations can be located by first and/or last names, birth and/or death years, and/or professional title. The resource helps you narrow by name when only a first or last name is used. This is an excellent resource to locate biographies in other reference books or in periodicals.

Resource Type:
Articles; Indexes; Biographies

Use this resource to answer questions like:

• Can I get a list of famous mathematicians?
• Where can I find information on well-known people from France?
• I need a biography of J.K. Rowling.

Find biographies and images for more than 525,000 people. You can search by name, country, ethnicity, job, or birth or death date.

Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Biographies

Use this resource to look for:

• The biographies of all the Nobel Peace Prize winners
• A list of the important figures during World War II
• The biographies of famous Latino writers
• Historic and current biographies of people in the arts

This resource offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. In addition to keyword searching, users can also locate biographies of interest by browsing more than 30 genre categories, including actors, authors, composers, explorers, figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world leaders and many others.

Resource Type:
Biographies, Encyclopedias

Use this resource to find information in books, journals, and media. eLibrary was designed as a starting point for students interested in researching current topics. Search across many formats at once: magazines, newspapers, books, television and radio transcripts, maps, images, multimedia files and web resources.
Browse Research Topics created for students: popular research topics such as global warming, Martin Luther King, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Each provides critical background information on a topic, while highlighting some of the most compelling photographs, articles, and video clips in eLibrary.
• Transcripts from recent television and radio interviews
• Clips from television news shows
• Biographies with images
• Reference materials by topic and reading level
• Images, video, eBooks, and 100% full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals.
Features:

• Formats include maps, transcripts, audio files, graphics, interactives, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, timelines, slideshows, editorially created research pages, and hand-selected websites.
• Use My eLibrary to save lists of images, articles, video clips, or any other kind of content in eLibrary. You can also take notes on documents, tag what you want, and create timelines and slideshows. Anything you annotate, tag, or create in My eLibrary can be shared—simply set up a "My eLibrary" account (e.g., MsSmith'sClass) and distribute username and password to everyone in your group.
• Easy bibliographies: export information you gather for papers in MLA or APA citation style formats.
• Send articles to your email address, save, or print.

Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Broadcast transcripts - television and radio, Maps, Photographs & images

This resource:
• Contains more than 9,000 full-text titles from Gale and more than 80 other publishers, most of them very helpful for homework assignments
• Includes an interface that is available in more than 30 languages
• Has ReadSpeaker technology (text-to-speech functionality) for 19 languages
• Has the ability to download articles as PDFs to e-readers or MP3 players
• More than 1,400 reference e-books, plus every Gale information database at Multnomah County Library.

Resource Type:
Biographies, E-books, Encyclopedias

Use this database to answer questions like:
• Could I find research on Giuseppi Mazzini and the Risorgimento?
• I need information in trench warfare in WWI.
• Is there any info on the colorful career of Martin Frobisher?
Provides English-language abstracts of scholarly literature on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). Covers approximately 1800 journals in over 50 languages. A special emphasis is placed upon the inclusion of English language titles published around the world. Includes abstracts of scholarly journal articles and citations to books and dissertations that are of interest to researchers of the history of the world from 1450 to the present.

Resource Type:
Articles - indexes, Trade publications

Use this resource to research questions like:

• What happened around the world on my birthday?
• My great uncle died in Portland in 1935. Can I get a copy of his obituary?
• What was the price of bread during the Great Depression?
Search the full text of The Oregonian from 1861 to 1987. Includes photographs, illustrations, advertisements and articles from local and international news. View scanned pages of the original newspaper.

Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Newspaper articles, Oregon resources

Use this resource for questions like:
• My grandmother was from near Burns and she died around 1910. Can I get her obituary?
• I want to read more about the debate about moving the state capital to Salem in the 1850s.
• Are there pictures of the Bull Run watershed preserve from the early days, when Portland first got its water there?
Historic Oregon Newspapers is an archive of newspapers from all over the state, originally published from the 1840s to 1922. Several are from the Portland area: The New Northwest (Portland), the Oregon Free Press (Oregon City), The Oregon Journal, the Oregon Spectator (Oregon City), The Oregonian, the Portland New Age and The St. Johns Review.

Includes images of each newspaper issue cover to cover, including photographs and illustrations. Search for any word in articles, headlines, public notices or advertisements.

This archive is a growing collection. Additional newspaper titles (including recent issues of a growing selection of contemporary Oregon newspapers, like Willamette Week and the St. Johns Review) are added to Historic Oregon Newspapers regularly.

Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Newspaper articles, Oregon resources

Use this resource to answer questions like:
• I'm looking for an article on Howard Hawks written by the film director, Walter Hill.
• I'd like a list of articles to get me started. I'm looking for anything that discusses the play Dinner with Friends.
A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Indexes and abstracts articles from 400 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art, dance, drama, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism and communications, music and performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

Resource Type:
Articles - indexes, Trade publications

JSTOR is a digital archive of full-text academic and scholarly journals published around the world from the 1600s to the present. It also includes primary source materials such as letters, images and pamphlets.

Use this resource to answer questions like:
• I need the text and the names of the people who signed the "Mayflower Compact."
• What is being done to preserve the unique environment of Madagascar?
• How does television violence affect children?
Designed for high school students, this resource contains magazine articles, primary source documents, reference books, and photos, maps and flags.

Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Facts & figures, Primary sources

Use this resource to answer questions like:
• Where can I get a map of Aztec sites?
• Where can I find a specific issue of National Geographic?
• I need articles about the pyramids of ancient Egypt.
Search for articles, images, maps and advertisements found in National Geographic from 1888 to 1994.

Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Photographs & images

Use this resource to access:
• Thousands of primary documents
• Hundreds of plays and poems
• Multimedia content, that includes video and audio clips, and thousands of flags, maps, seals and photographs
• Thousands of topic overviews, biographies, plot summaries and pieces of literary criticism
• Content level recommendations (Basic, Intermediate and Advanced) to help readers choose appropriate content for their abilities
• Research Tools and Research Guide that tie information literacy skills to use of the resource
• More than 1,700 study guide questions to promote understanding

Aimed at middle school and high school students, this resource includes content based on national curriculum standards in major subject areas such as history, literature, science and social
studies.

Resource Type:
Audio, Biographies, Photographs & images, Primary sources

Use this resource to find:
• Results of public opinion polls on gun control
• Magazine articles about school violence
• Short biographies of people associated with the field of genetics and cloning.
Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Biographies, Statistics & demographics

Use this resource answer questions like:
• Who was Philo Farnsworth?
• Who are the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and what are they often called?

Resource Type:
Articles - full-text, Encyclopedias, Primary sources