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For over 60 years, researchers have depended on Biography Index to find reliable information about people.
Biography Index: Past and Present is a new version of the database, containing retrospective coverage from
Biography Index back to when it was first published in 1946, combined with coverage right up to the present. This database offers information about people from all all time periods throughout history and right up to the present in a single, easy to use database.
Biography Index: Past and Present cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus select other titles. What’s more, some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books.
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In addition to biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews.
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Citations to nearly a million article and book
citations.
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Information on individuals that reflects the
perspective of the time.
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Indexes interviews and profiles of
history-makers.
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Covers asked-about public figures including
writers, artists, statesmen, sports figures, politicians, religious
leaders, scientists, educators, military leaders, teachers, actors,
business people, and more.
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High-quality Wilson indexing of biographical
information from and international range of thousands of periodicals
and an average of some 2,000 English-language books each
year.
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Saves time, effort, and shelf-space: search the
equivalent of 29 printed volumes.
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Useful for students, scholars, media professionals,
book clubs--(one em dash)any patrons seeking reliable information about
people.
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Invaluable for literary and historical research.
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Covers people throughout all periods of history,
right up to today's history-makers.
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Personal names used as subject headings are
standardized to ensure retrieval of all records about an individual.
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Updated terms identifying professions allow you
to search using familiar, contemporary terms.
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Produced by an in-house staff of librarians and
subject specialists with consistent bibliographic standards.
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WilsonLink SFX-powered technology links citations with
full text on your OpenURL compliant databases, including JSTOR, at no
additional charge.
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Link to your OPAC with our library holdings
indicator to let users know if they’ll find cited articles on your
shelves.
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Available exclusively on WilsonWeb.
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Now
Featuring WilsonLink SFX-Powered Technology
When you search
Biography Index: Past and Present on WilsonWeb, you get
seamless links to full text articles on any of your library’s
reference databases that are OpenURL compliant—at no
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Just
click a special WilsonLink icon for
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additional hardware—WilsonWeb integrates your
electronic collection with a supplemental search
of all OpenURL compliant resources. In
addition, WilsonLink provides extended services
including an Internet search and document
delivery options.
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Biography
Reference Bank
Wilson’s ultimate biography product combines all this in a single biographical powerhouse: the entire content of
Current Biography, Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, the
World Authors series, Junior Authors & Illustrators series, other Wilson biographical works, over 80,000 licensed profiles from major reference publishers, the complete coverage of
Biography Index: 1984 to Present, plus links to thousands of citations and full text articles from other Wilson databases.
- Covers 500,000+ people, with 36,000+
images.
- Available exclusively on WilsonWeb;
updated daily.
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Biography Index:
1984 to Present
This database sites biographical material appearing in
thousands of periodicals by other Wilson databases, plus
additional journals and some 2,000 books each year.
Updated daily on WilsonWeb, quarterly on WilsonDisc. Also
available in print.
"Invaluable…should be in all libraries."
—Reference Books Bulletin
"A dependable and time-tested source…basic
in reference collections."
—American Reference Books Annual
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