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New version of Biography Index Combines Retrospective Coverage with
Current Indexing, Now Available. Search biographical material from ALL the WilsonWeb
periodicals databases with Biography Index: 1984 to Present, which
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more, some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are
cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise
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Besides biographies and
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Also available in print.
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New Version of Biography Index,
Combines Retrospective Coverage with Current Indexing, Now
Available Biography Index: Past and Present is a new version of
Biography
Index, containing retrospective indexing back to when it was
first published in 1946, combined with coverage right up to
the present. For comparison, Biography Index: 1984 to
Present provides coverage only back to 1984. The new version
of the database, Biography Index Past and Present, gives you
an additional 38 years of valuable Wilson indexing of
articles about people from all time periods in history,
combined with the current coverage that has made Biography
Index a reference classic. |
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