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Biography Reference Bank features:

• Full-text coverage of more than 246,000 individuals.
• Substantive narrative profiles of about 3,000 words each, written by in-house experts and subject to H.W. Wilson quality standards.
• Links to over 380,000 related full-text articles, as well as abstracts and images from thousands of periodicals covered by other Wilson resources, for the most current coverage of an individual’s life and work.
• Over 36,000 images—more than any competing resource—with more added all the time.
• Book review excerpts and full-text reviews from Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus, which help patrons find and select print biographies.
• New! Graphical interface, including a more graphical look and feel to the Search screen, more prominent links to additional content, image explosion, and new paragraph spacing to make onscreen text easier to read.
• New! Suggested searches on the Search screen, including Born on this Date, Featured Biography, Recently Added, Topic of the Month, plus links to four randomly chosen profiles.
• Precision searching by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, titles of works, or keywords.
• Language translations, allowing patrons to convert articles from English into 11 other languages.
• My WilsonWeb customization.
• Periodicals coverage added daily, and up to 1,500 in-house narrative profiles added every year.
• Licensed profiles from other leading publishers, selected for accuracy, completeness, and reference reputation.

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Other biographical resources might promise coverage of many thousands of individuals, but they often deliver little more than vital statistics. Our biographical profiles are either written in-house by experienced biographers or taken from trusted biography reference sources. Most are more than 1,500 words in length, and they present the rich, narrative life stories that researchers expect to see.

Biography Reference Bank Select encompasses all the trusted Wilson resources plus profiles licensed from the high-quality publishers listed below.

H.W. Wilson
American Authors 1600-1900
American Composers Today
American Reformers
American Songwriters
Authors Today & Yesterday
British Authors Before 1800
British Authors of the 19th Century
Composers of Today, 2nd Edition
Composers of Yesterday
Composers since 1900
Composers since 1900 1st Supplement
Current Biography 1940-Present (all vols. from 1940-Present)
Current Biography International Yearbook (all vols.)
European Authors 1000-1900
European Composers of Today
Great Composers 1300-1900
Greek and Latin Authors 800 B.C.-A.D. 1000
Junior Authors & Illustrators Series, 9 vols.
Leaders of the Information Age
Living Musicians
Living Musicians 1st Supplement
Musicians since 1900
Nobel Prize Winners
Nobel Prize Winners Supplement 1987-2001 (3 vols.)
Old Worlds to New
Popular American Composers
Popular American Composers 1st Supplement
Spanish American Authors
World Artists 1950-1980
World Artists 1980-1990
World Authors 1900-1950
World Authors 1950-1970
World Authors 1970-1975
World Authors 1975-1980
World Authors 1980-1985
World Authors 1985-1990
World Authors 1995-2000
World Film Directors, 2 vols.
World Musicians

Chambers Harrap
Chambers Biographies

Congressional Directory
Selected biographical information and contact details

Fitzroy Dearborn
Computer Pioneers
Dictionary of Woman Artists, 2 vols.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 19th Century
Encyclopedia of Interior Design, 2 vols.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Encyclopedia of Mexico
Encyclopedia of Television
Encyclopedia of the Essay
Encyclopedia of the Novel, 2 vols.
International Dictionary of Black Composers, 2 vols.
Reader's Guide to Russian Literature
Who's Who in British History, 2 vols.

Garland Publishing
African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary
European Immigrant Women in the United States
Handbook of American Women's History
Hollywood Songsters: A Biographical Dictionary
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary
Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe

Greenwood
Biographical Dictionary of American & Canadian Environmentalists
Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians
Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders, 2 vols.
Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences
Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators
Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists
Biographical Dictionary of Public Administration
Biographical Dictionary of the Union
Biographical Dictionary of U.S. Secretaries of Treasury, 1789-1995
Biographical Dictionary of WWII Generals & Flag Officers
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Executive Branch, 1774-1989
Brainard's Biographies of American Musicians
Dictionary of American Religious Biography

Harvard University Press
Notable American Women, 4 vols.

Helicon
Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography

Houghton Mifflin
Encyclopedia of North American Indians
The Great American History Fact-Finder
The Reader's Companion to Military History
Who's Who of Sports Champions

James Clarke & Co.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Encyclopedia of the Early Church

Oryx
African American Political & Governmental Leaders
African Americans and Civil Rights, from 1619 to the Present
Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century
Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics
Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting
Encyclopedia of Television News
Encyclopedia of Women & Sports in America
Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics
Lives and Legacies: Scientists, Mathematicians & Inventors
Outstanding Women Athletes
Storytelling Encyclopedia
Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners

Oxford Publishing, Ltd.
A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
A Dictionary of Architecture
A Dictionary of Astronomy

A Dictionary of Biology
A Dictionary of British History
A Dictionary of Buddhism
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
A Dictionary of Chemistry
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
A Dictionary of Ecology
A Dictionary of English Folklore
A Dictionary of Physics
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
A Dictionary of Political Biography
A Dictionary of Scientists
A Dictionary of Shakespeare
A Dictionary of Sociology
A Dictionary of the Bible
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
The Oxford Companion to British History
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
The Oxford Companion to The Earth
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance
The Oxford Dictionary of Popes
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints

Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 4 vols.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 20 vols.
Grove Dictionary of Art, 44 vols.
Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, 2nd Edition, 23 vols.
New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 vols.
New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 4 vols.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics & the Law, 2 vols.

Note: All the profiles from the Wilson titles listed above are included in Biography Reference Bank. Profiles licensed from other publishers include a selected list from the titles noted.