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Marquis Who's Who on the Web
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- Description
- Brief biographical information in directory format. Common features include birth date and place,
family, education and
degree(s), career history, creative works, awards, military history, achievements, current
memberships, interests/hobbies,
and contact information. Includes more than 1.4 million biographies. Supports complex searches
combining fields like
political affiliation, degrees earned, birth year and place, gender, occupation, state or country,
etc.
- Help
- Help available on the left side of each screen. Includes detailed search tips.
- User tools and features
- Allows printing and downloading of biographies; does not support e-mailing or direct export to
database management tools.
- Dates covered
- 1985 to the present with historical biographies dating back to 1607.
- Updating frequency
- Daily.
- Sources
- More than 20 Who's Who books, including
Who's Who in America and its regional volumes,
Who's Who in Business and Finance
and other volumes covering professions,
Who's Who of American Women,
Who's Who in American Art,
Who's Who in American Politics, and
Who's Who in American History (featuring all of the 110,000 biographies from the
Who Was Who in America
volumes from 1607-1985).
- Type of coverage
- Brief biographies in directory form.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- More than 20 Who's Who books, including
Who's Who in America and its regional volumes,
Who's Who in Business and Finance
and other volumes covering professions,
Who's Who of American Women,
Who's Who in American Art,
Who's Who in American Politics, and
Who's Who in American History (featuring all of the 110,000 biographies from the
Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607-1985).
All print subscriptions at Rutgers libraries canceled as of 2009.
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