UFV has access to more than 60,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper titles online, and about 500 current titles in print.
If you wish to know more about biography in general try searching for biography as literary form as a subject search.
Historiography—the writing of history—is a similar concept to biography. Try searching: historiography and [insert your topic here]. E.g.
Examples of subjects in the library catalogue:
Although librarians have carefully compiled these sources, there is no substitute for your own evaluation. Use the following guides to help you.
When searching for biography on the Internet try searches similar to the subject searches in the UFV Library Catalogue or in the research databases. Try your favourite search engine, Google or Google scholar, reversing the name is not strictly necessary, but try it different ways for different results, e.g.
toni morrison biography
morrison tony biography
Also try ‘biographical sources’ along with a discipline or area, e.g.
biographical sources science
