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Current Biography
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- Description
- Current Biography contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400
obituaries from all of the volumes of
Current Biography Yearbook, from 1940 to the present. The biographies are searchable by
name, profession, title, place of
origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, and keywords.
Full-text searching of
biographies is supported. Coverage focuses on "living leaders in all fields of human
accomplishment," including politics,
science, the arts and entertainment, sports, and business. Most biographies run the equivalent of
about three print pages
and include a brief section on suggested reading. The Rutgers subscription does not include
photographs.
- Help
- Help is available through a link on the top right of every screen. The Help page also links to a
tutorial.
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- Dates covered
- 1940 to the present.
- Updating frequency
- Not specified; print was updated monthly.
- Sources
- Current Biography [monthly] and Current Biography Yearbook.
- Type of coverage
- Biographical essays.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Current Biography [monthly] and Current Biography Yearbook.
All print subscriptions at Rutgers libraries canceled as of 2009.
See IRIS for specific holdings.
- Producer/content provider
- H.W. Wilson Company
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- H.W. Wilson Company
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