• Click on EBSCOhost.
• Click on EBSCOhost Web.
• Click on Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.

• Connect to the Owens Library Web Page.
• Click on Library Catalog.
• Click on subject.
• You may also choose to search by the person's name or for subject headings such as biography, united states biography, or religious biography.

America: History and Life
1964 to present
Article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present are included in this index.

Biography Index
1st Floor, Reference 016.92 B61b
1946 to 2003 is available on the index tables in the Reference area on first floor.
This index is a guide to biographical materials appearing in periodicals, as well as current books of individual and collective biography. Biographical material indexed includes obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, and bibliographies. All biographies are American unless otherwise indicated.

Humanities Index
1st Floor, Reference 016.0013 H91m
1974 to 1991 is available on the north wall of first floor.
Earlier editions of this source are under the following titles:

• International Index to Periodicals, for the years 1907-65.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Index, for the years 1965-1974.
  
  Archaeology and classical studies, area studies, history, folklore, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and theology are covered in this index of periodical literature.

In Black and White
3rd Floor, Reference 920.009 S76i
This reference work provides citations for magazine articles, newspaper articles, and books concerning more than 15,000 Black individuals and groups.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives .
"In the First Person is a new library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases."

International Index to Periodicals
1st Floor, Reference 016.3 S67s
1907 to 1965 is available on the north wall on first floor.
Magazines not indexed in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature for this time period are covered here. This work evolved into Humanities Index and Social Sciences Index.

JSTOR
Date varies by from 1800's to the last few years.
"The JSTOR database is unique because the complete archives of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. New titles and fields are being added regularly."

New York Times Index
1st Floor, Reference 016.07 N53n
1851 to the present on the north wall of the first floor of the library.
This index covers the contents of the New York Times from 1851 to the present.
From June 1, 1980 through today full-text is available via Search for Articles.

•  Click on LexisNexis Academic
•  Click on Guided News Search
•  Step One choose General News
•  Step Two choose Major Papers, then click on Source List
•  Select New York Times, then click Paste to Search
•  Step Three enter person's name
•  Step Four change to preferred date
•  Search

Readers' Guide Retrospective
1900-1997 to present via Search for Articles.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
1st Floor, Reference 015.05 R28r
1815 to the present on the north wall of the first floor of the library.
Articles about popular topics and current issues are indexed here. Three separate titles identify this source over time:

• Pooles Index to Periodical Literature covers 1815-99.
• Nineteenth Century Readers Guide to Periodical Literature covers 1890-99.
• Readers Guide to Periodical Literature covers 1900 to the present.
  

• International Index to Periodicals for the years 1907-1965.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Index for the years 1965-1974.

Anthropology, area studies, community health & medical care, economics, geography, gerontology, international relations, law & criminology, minority studies, planning & public administration, police science & corrections, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work & public welfare, sociology, and urban studies are areas covered in this periodical index.

Social Sciences and Humanities Index
1st Floor, Reference 016.3 S67s
1965-1974 is available on the north wall of first floor.
An earlier edition of this source is available under the title International Index to Periodicals for the years 1907-1965.

Anthropology, area studies, classical studies, community health & medical care, economics, geography, gerontology, international relations, law & criminology, minority studies, history, folklore, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion, planning & public administration, police science & corrections, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work & public welfare, sociology, theology, and urban studies are areas covered in this periodical index.

• Access Search for Articles.
• In the "Databases" box, scroll down and click InfoTrac or EBSCOhost
• Click on One File in InfoTrac or Academic Search Premier in EBSCOhost.
• Search for the name of the person you are researching.
• It is possible in InfoTrac and EBSCOhost to search for articles in Current Biography, one of the premier sources for biography of people who are alive or recently deceased. To do this, follow the steps listed above and type Current Biography in the limit "to the following journal" box.