BIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

DATABASES

American National Biography
Biographical information about 18,000 people who have influenced and shaped American life in all eras.

Biographical Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who.
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines approximately 250,000 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 based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

Biography Reference Bank
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Also includes: Biography Index Plus which is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases.

Cincinnati Executive Officers Biography
This is a biographical resource center for Cincinnati business leaders past and present. The biographies are from books, journal articles, web sites, company literature, and newspapers. Some of the online sources listed may be available only to UC students, faculty and staff.

Dun's Million Dollar Database
Information on 500,000 public and private U.S. companies. Searches can be done by SMSA, state, county, zip code, area code, sales, employee size, and import/export indicators, and SIC codes. The database also covers Dun's Reference Book of Corporate Management with biographical information on approx. 660,000 executives.

Leadership Library
Who's who in business, finance, law, government, media, foreign representatives, etc... You can search by criteria relating to people, organizations, or location.

LexisNexis
Click on "Reference". Then click on "Biographical Information".

S&P Net Advantage
Use "Publication Search", Choose "Register Executives", then search by "Company Name" or "Last Name" of executive. Approximately 70,000 individuals serving as officers, directors, trustees, partners, etc.

SOURCES

American Business Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. (Neil A. Hamilton, ABC-CLIO, 1999)
Profiles of more than 400 prominent American men and women who built businesses important to the national economy. In many instances these people created new industries, developed resources on a massive scale, or took their original ideas and molded them into enterprises that changed the way people lived.

American Women Managers and Administrators. (Langsam Library Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Biographical dictionary of twentieth-century leaders in business, education, and government. Each half-page article is followed by an extensive bibliography.

America's Labor Leaders. (Langsam Library--Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
500 labor leaders who made a significant contribution to the American labor movement.

Arbitrators' Biographies on LexisNexis(Traditional). (One Computer Station in Langsam Reference)
Biographies are in the LexisNexis(Traditional) Library "LABOR" in the File "ARBIO"

Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders. (Langsam Library Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Approximately 835 biographies on "historically most significant business leaders." from colonial times to the present. The biographies are about one page in length. Several indexes make this reference very useful.

Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. (Langsam Library Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Contains approximately 750 biographies on men and women who had a significant impact on the American labor movement. Living and deceased leaders are included. The second edition expands the scope to include more women, more radicals, and some rank- and-file leaders.

Dictionary of Labor Biography. (Langsam Library Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
British labor leaders (no living persons)

Gallery of Economists
Pictures and links to sites of biographical materials on famous economists.

Who's Who In America (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Biographical data on prominent living Americans. Supplemented by Who Was Who In America which contains sketches of deceased persons.

Who's Who in Economics. (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
A biographical dictionary of major economists both living and dead from 1700 to the present time. Includes publications and major contributions.

Who's Who In Finance and Business. (Langsam Library Latest Reference(Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Detailed information about the individual's business activities. Includes information on about 19,000 North American and international professionals in business and business related professions such as stock exchanges, union leaders, and selected government officials.

Who's Who In Labor. (Langsam Library Latest Reference(Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Biographies of living labor leaders.