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Biography Reference Bank
H.W. Wilson
New York, NY
1999-
URL: www.hwwilson.com/databases/biobank.htm
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Last visited: December 2004
Keyword Biographies
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120510604418
H.W. Wilson Company calls Biography Reference Bank its "largest database yet!" Extending from antiquity to the present, this is indeed an immense collection of biographical information. Biography Reference Bank merges Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated and full-text articles, images, and abstracts from the other Wilson databases. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated currently consists of more than 30,000 images and links to full-text articles from biographical reference resources from Wilson and those licensed from other publishers. Biography Index provides citations to more than 3,000 periodicals indexed by Wilson and approximately 2,500 books of individual and collective biography. Thus, this newly enhanced product now links to biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, obituaries, book reviews, performance reviews, and speeches in nearly all of the WilsonWeb databases, including Current Biography and the world artists, authors, composers, songwriters, musicians, and film makers series and the Junior Authors and Illustrators Series.
New additions to Biography Reference Bank include titles licensed from Oxford University, James Clarke, and the Congressional Directory. They join reference resources from Houghton Mifflin, Grove's, Garland, Greenwood, Oryx, Harvard University Press, Chambers Harrap,...