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To find contact info for people, organizations, or businesses, try some of these online directories in InfoTree. Notice the subtopics at the right of the screen (Businesses, Government, Organizations, People, Telephone)
Good resource for this course: JOUR233

For biographical information, try the sources in InfoTree under General > Biography. Be sure to read the “description” of a source before you use it, because biographical databases tend to be very specific as to whom they contain.
An example:
American National Biography – the description says this database contains information on “anyone who died before 1996” [...]

See the announcement below from the Library News Blog about new databases available at the library. Note that some other databases have changed or are no longer available.
New and Changed Databases

Some excellent sources for finding background info on companies, all found in InfoTree under Business and Finance > Business > Company Information:
Mergent Online
Search for a company and the first page will be basic info about that company. Then click on the tabs across the top of the page to see things such as History, Subsidiaries, [...]

New records are continually added to InfoTree by library bibliographers on a number of different subjects. To see the newest additions to InfoTree, click on the Newest Additions link at the top of the InfoTree home page.
Use the Day / Week / Month links to see items added within the last day, week or month.
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