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July 6, 2006
H.W. Wilson Announces Biography Index: Past & Present
All the Up-to-Date Content of the Reference Standard Biography Index
Plus Over 60 Years of Retrospective Content
H.W. Wilson has introduced a new version of Biography
Index that combines the resource's full six-decade history of in-depth
article indexing with coverage up to the present. Biography Index: Past &
Present <http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/bioind_retro.htm> delivers the
complete content of Biography Index from its 1946 inception, and continues
its timely indexing of current articles with daily updates. Versatile
WilsonWeb searching helps researchers find information about notable
figures throughout history, right up to today's newsmakers.
Valuable for students, scholars, media professionals,
and other researchers, the database covers people from across all
disciplines and areas of endeavor. Information on writers, artists,
statesmen, sports figures, politicians, religious leaders, actors,
business people and more is reflected in over a million article citations
from thousands of periodicals internationally, plus notable books indexed
back to 1946. New citations, some 22,000 per year, are picked up from
biographical content appearing in more than 8,000 journals and magazines
covered by other WilsonWeb specialty databases, plus indexing of some
2,000 books annually.
For researchers seeking insights on historical figures
that can come only from articles that reflect the sensibilities of the
times in which they were written, this is a perfect resource. Updated
terms for professions allow users to search using familiar, contemporary
vocabulary. Names used as subject headings are standardized throughout the
years of coverage to ensure retrieval of all records about an individual.
Citations for new articles about historical figures can be called up with
historical coverage, for all-in-one research.
The database can be searched seamlessly with Wilson's
acclaimed Biography Reference Bank database, providing full-text narrative
profiles for many of the people covered in Biography Index: Past &
Present.
Offered exclusively on WilsonWeb, Biography Index: Past
& Present is invaluable for literary and historical research. Free 30-day
trials are available to libraries and members of the press. The reference
standard Biography Index, with coverage from 1984 through the present,
remains available as a WilsonWeb database and in print. |
