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Find Articles: Indexes and Databases:
World Biographical Index (WBI)
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- Description
- WBI is an index to the biographical articles collected from many different sources in the
KG Saur microfiche collections
known as biographical archives and the World Biographical Information System
(WBIS) database that provides online fulltext
from these archives. The entries in WBI do not link to WBIS fulltext, but they
identify the individuals' full names,
country, profession, birth and death dates, and references for the print and microfiche publications
where the articles may
be found. There are biographical details on more than 5.24 million people from the 8th century BC
onward. Various search
languages (including English) are available. Basic Search enables you to search for names or parts
of names, Biographical
Search permits multiple-field searching in many different biographical categories, and
Bibliographic Search allows you to
search bibliographic entries of reference works that were used to compile the biographical archives.
Index links for each
search field enable you to select available terms. Records can be downloaded or emailed.
- Help
- WBI provides online help screens.
Opening screen says World Biographical Information System (WBIS) Online but our access is
only to the WBI subset.
- Dates covered
- References are to articles published from 1559 to the late twentieth century.
- Updating frequency
- Updated as additional archives are added to WBIS.
- Sources
- Citations refer to articles in the more than 5300 reference works that have been combined in over
40 different biographical archive microfiche sets.
- Type of coverage
- Citations only.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Rutgers owns five of the microfiche biographical archive sets to which WBI
citations refer:
- Archives Biographiques Françaises,
- Archivo Biográfico de España,
- Portugal e Iberoamérica,
- Archivio Biografico Italiano,
- British Biographical Archive, and Deutsches Biographisches Archiv.
In addition, we own many of the printed reference books identified in the citations.
- Producer/content provider
- K. G. Saur Verlag
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- K. G. Saur Verlag
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