Academic Reference
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Biographies
Biography.com.
Search for information on over 25,000 personalities.
Biographical
Dictionary.
Contains more than 28,000 entries and can be searched
by birth years, death years, positions held, professions,
literary and artistic works, and achievements.
Biographies
of Famous Women.
Biographies comprising educators, scientists, politicians,
civil rights crusaders, artists, writers, entertainers,
and more.
LitWeb.
More than 500 biographies of writers are included in
the Authors Index.
Lives, the Biography
Resource.
Directory of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs,
diaries, letters, narratives, and oral histories.
Who2 Biographical Database.
Who2 helps you find famous persons quickly with an A-Z
index and searchable database. The database is designed
to be "the Web's most direct guide to facts about famous
people", including date of birth and death, famous works,
and other details.
Gale Group
Biography Resource Center.
A one-stop biographical research system containing more
than 400,000 biographies on nearly 275,000 people. Requires
subscription.
Quotations
Bartlett's
Quotations.
Over 11,000 searchable quotations.
The
Quotations Page.
Classic and motivational quotations (even quotations
for the cynic.)
Land of Quotes.
Quotations by topic, by author, and literary quotations.
Famous
Quotes and Quotations.
Inspirational quotes, leadership quotes, it's all here.
See also GIGA,
a collection of 50,000 ancient and modern quotations,
aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and sayings.
Fagan Quote
and Proverb Finder.
This specialty engine for quotations may come close
to "having it all".
Style Guides
A
Guide for Writing Research Papers.
MLA style documentation.
APA
Documentation Style.
APA style guide from the University of Wisconsin.
Online!
Citation Styles.
MLA, APA, and Chicago style guides for the citation
of Internet resources.
The Elements
of Style.
William Strunk's classic reference book, searchable
and provided by Bartleby.
See also Academics and
Academic Research. |