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 UB Restricted - Off-campus remote access to this resource requires a UBITName and password. 
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| Description: |
Wilson Biographies provides biographical information about more than 38,000 persons from a wide range of fields including writers, musicians, composers, film directors, and Nobel laureates. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, date of death, and keyword.
Leads to full-text biographies from a variety of H. W. Wilson reference sources including Current Biography Yearbook and World Authors. Many of the biographies also include supplemental citations from Biography Index to update the articles. |
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| Dates Covered: |
Dates for source materials vary but people included can be from any time in history, antiquity to the present. Updated monthly. |
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| Print Counterpart: |
There is no equivalent print source, although the UB Libraries have many of the titles that make up the database, most notably:
Current Biography Yearbook
Lockwood Reference
Undergraduate Reference
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CT 100 .C8, 1940-present
World Authors
Lockwood Reference (1900-1985)
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PN 451 .W3 etc.
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| Related Databases: |
· Biography and Genealogy Master Index
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| Contact: |
Don Hartman |
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| Last Update: |
8/25/2008 |
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