Research Articles - Gale

Files Available from Gale

• Associations Unlimited
• Biography & Genealogy Master Index
• Biography Resource Center
• Business Insights
• Literature Resource Center
• LitFinder

Associations Unlimited

Contains information for several hundred thousand international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.

Business owners can use this database to find industry associations and trade journals. Students can use it to find association websites and information on scholarships offered by some organizations.

Associations Unlimited covers the following:

• U.S. national associations
• International associations
• U.S. regional, state, and local associations
• Associations' Materials for selected national associations
• IRS Data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books such as Who's Who, Oxford guides, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

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Biography in Context

Biography In Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes biographies from Gale reference texts and full-text articles from magazines and journals.

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Literature Resource Center and LitFinder

Literature Resource Center includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of thousands of authors from every age and literary discipline (including poets, novelists, playwrights, songwriters, and screenwriters). Contains information from magazines and journals, plus sources such as the Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, Scribners Writers Series, Twayne's English Authors, US Authors, and World Authors.

LitFinder contains nearly a million citations for poems, speeches, plays, essays, and other works. In some cases, the full text of the work is available.

You can use Literature Resource Center to find biographical information about an author, then use LitFinder to locate the exact text of the author's writings.

If the full text is not available in LitFinder, it may be available in books that you can check out or copy at the library. Please search the library catalog or ask a librarian for help locating the text.

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