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Further Expansion
for H.W. Wilson's Biography
Reference Bank
New Entries from Oxford University
Press, Congressional Directory, and James Clarke Enhance Acclaimed
WilsonWeb Database New York, New York, April 28th, 2004
With
the addition of over 14,000 licensed biographical articles, Wilson's
popular
Biography Reference Bank
now covers some 490,000 individuals, H.W. Wilson announced today.
Licensing agreements with Oxford University Press bring new, high
quality content from some 39 distinguished titles. These include Concise Oxford Dictionaries
covering literature, theater, music, politics, religion, and
mathematics; and Oxford
Companions to Shakespeare, philosophy, poetry, and art.
Other licensed profiles are drawn from the Oxford Dictionaries of
earth science, chemistry, physics, folklore, and sociology.
Also included in
the new expansion of Biography
Reference Bank are profiles licensed from James Clarke &
Co., from the Encyclopedia of
the Middle Ages and the Encyclopedia of the Early Church.
A complete list of source volumes, including Wilson biographical
resources and those licensed from other renowned publishers such as
Greenwood Publishing, Grove's Dictionaries, and Harvard University
Press, is available at www.hwwilson.com.
Additionally, some
540 entries from the U.S. Congress's Congressional Directory
have been incorporated, bringing researchers handy information about
the backgrounds and electoral districts covered by their
congressional representatives, including contact information.
Reaching
one's congressman about community issues has just gotten easier—with
a keyword search of a zip code, users can find out what
representative to contact, the address to write and number to call,
the website to visit, plus all the various committees and
subcommittees on special issues on which the congressman has served.
Besides in-depth
narrative profiles, Biography
Reference Bank also offers some 30,000 photographs, and
links to more than 175,000 related full text articles drawn from the
complete range of Wilson databases. The database also features book
review excerpts drawn from Wilson's Book Review Digest Plus
(at no additional charge), and incorporates all content from the H.W.
Wilson databases Biography Index
and Wilson Biographies Plus
Illustrated.
Biography Reference Bank
has been honored as a “Best Reference Source” by both Library Journal and Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin.
Free 30-day trials
of Biography Reference Bank
are available to librarians and members of the working press.
Contact:
Roseward Sky
Phone (800) 367-6770, x2272
Email: rsky@hwwilson.com
Eileen Sutter
Phone (800) 367-6770, x2312
Email: esutter@hwwilson.com
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