Biographical Resources: A Research Guide: National and International Biographies

Oxford, 2012.
Available online and in print (Africana Library Reference CT 1920 .D52 2012).
"From the pharaohs to Frantz Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa’s history." --Publisher's description

Oxford, 2016.
Online only.
"a comprehensive overview of the lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically significant..., unprecedented in scale, covering the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish."

[Los Angeles, CA]: USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
Online only.
Contains more than 54,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide, recorded in 63 countries and in 40 languages since 1994. Most testimonies have been terminologically indexed at one-minute segments. Aside from Holocaust testimony, the resource includes (as of 20 July 2018) testimonies from the Armenian Genocide (1915-23), the Nanjing (China) Massacre (1937), the Cambodian Genocide (1975-79), the Guatemalan Genocide (1978-83), the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan. Also included are testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.

Online version of the standard national biography of the United States. Profiles of more than 23,000 notable American women and men from all eras of U.S. history who are no longer alive. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, thousands of hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and archival sources. Articles are updated and added regularly. The ANB supersedes the Dictionary of American Biography, the previous standard national biography of the United States.
For persons not listed in the ANB, check the less authoritative, older National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (Olin Library Reference CT 213 .N27) and the K. G. Saur index and microfiche collection of biographical dictionaries.

Berkshire, 2014.
Available online and in print versions
Print title: Berkshire dictionary of Chinese biography / 宝库山中华传记字典 (Kroch Asia Reference DS 734 .B47 2014).
"In 135 entries, written by some of the world's leading China scholars, the Dictionary takes the reader from the important figures of ancient China to Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping." [catalog summary]

Online version of the standard Canadian national biography. Full coverage for individuals who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years. Additional biographies cover 1940 to 2000. Annotated bibliographies include substantial listings of archival collections.

Available online and in print
Print title: Dictionary of Irish Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002 (Library Annex CT 862 .D53 2009).
9 volumes.
Contains over 9,000 signed biographical articles on the careers of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution from the earliest times to the year 2010 in Ireland and abroad in all fields of endeavor. Also includes articles on people born outside Ireland who had noteworthy careers in Ireland. Online articles may be searched by name, gender, birth or death place, birth or death dates, religion, occupation, contributor, or keywords. Articles will be added each year online to cover people who died since the previous update.

Also known as Deutsche Biographie. Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche biographie (ADB) and Neue deutsche Biographie (NDB). "Certified information on more than 730.000 personalities and families in the German speaking areas from the Middle Ages to the present; namely 50.000 biographies (ADB and NDB) and links to more than 230 online resources (literature, dictionaries, source editions etc.)." [database home page]

A continuously updated online version of the standard print British national biography, Dictionary of National Biography (Olin Library CT 773 .D55 1921 and supplements), which was originally published from 1885-1901 in 66 volumes and updated with decennial supplements. Over 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000 (newer entries in the online version). Portraits and citations to archival collections and major biographies of the subject. See also the K. G. Saur index and microfiche page.

Online, including entries from the Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Print volumes through volume 18 (1981-1990): Library Annex CT 2801 .A93 +.
Online version covers persons who died through 1995. Entries for persons who died from 1996 to 2000 are in progress.

The Austrian Biographical Dictionary lists important personalities who were born, lived or worked in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy or in the respective Austrian state association. Biographies that are not in the foreground of general awareness were also deliberately selected. The print edition of the ÖBL only includes people who died between 1815 and 1950. The online edition, the "Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815", which has been published since 2011, contains all printed biographies as well as supplements, corrections and additions. For this online edition, people who lived until 2010 are also considered. [Home page (translation)]