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Digital archive for The Baltimore Sun from 1837-1993. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

A comprehensive and definitive resource for artists’ biographies, published since 1911. Includes 149,000 biographies as well as exhibition histories and over 11,000 images of artists’ signatures and stamps of sale.

Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

A biography database of in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index, and specialist content from Junior Authors & Illustrators.

Provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments. Includes just under 400 titles, with more than 325 available in full text. Also part of ProQuest Central.

BIOSIS Previews is the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. It also covers references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, clinical research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms.

Book Review Index Plus includes more than 5 million book reviews, allowing users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. It contains the entire backfile of the Book Review Index print content from 1965 to the present; indexed publications include American Journal of Education, Belles Lettres, Books in Canada, Children’s Book News, Choice, Essence, German Quarterly, Irish Literary Supplement, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Middle East Policy, Mother Jones, New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Times Literary Supplement, Village Voice, Women’s Review of Books, World Literature Today, Yale Review, and many others.

Use this site to search book reviews, read about the latest releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events.

What is BrowZine?

• BrowZine allows you to browse scholarly journals available from Randall Library or from open sources in a web browser or on your tablet, iPhone or Android smartphone.
• Access thousands of scholarly journals anywhere you have WiFi access.
• View complete issues of journals including the table of contents.
• Save and organize selected journals on online bookshelves.
• Be alerted when a new issue of a journal is published.
• Save articles on your mobile device to read later--even when you’re offline.
• Download BrowZine articles to Dropbox, Mendeley, Zotero, and other services to help keep all of your information together in one place.
• Supported publishers include Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Cambridge, Oxford, American Chemical Society, ACM, Project Muse, and more.

Business Insights allows researchers to use in-depth information on U.S. businesses, industries, and products. The database includes

• 300 sources for investment research/brokerage reports
• 1,000 SWOT reports, updated quarterly
• 2,200 corporate chronologies
• 3,900 full-text periodicals
• 11,500 market research reports
• 14,000 industry research reports from Datamonitor
• 15,000 company histories
• 50,500 articles from Market Share Reporter
• 70,000 associations
• 80,000 articles from Gale's Business Rankings Annual
• 465,000 company profiles including 2,000 with deep links to related content and statistical data