Current Biography Provides biographies and obituaries of prominent individuals worldwide since 1940. Profiles cover politicians, business people, artists, actors, writers, sports figures, etc. This FirstSearch database provides indexing and some full-text of articles from journals published in many different subject areas. Indexes scholarly and some popular periodicals in a large number of subject areas. Full-text is provided for many of the indexed articles.
Subjects covered include current events, the humanities, general sciences, and the social sciences.
Indexing for the latest six months of The New York Times is covered. Includes related disciplines, such as multicultural studies, psychology, religion, political science, etc. Provides worldwide coverage of the journal literature in history, selected book reviews, and references to dissertations. Covers literature published from 1955 to present. Project Muse Offers 45 full-text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press covering the humanities and social sciences.