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Vendor:

Thomson-Gale

Brief Description:

Provides biographical information on more than 275,000 people from throughout history and around the world, across all disciplines and subject areas.

Full Description:

Provides biographical information on more than 275,000 people from throughout history and around the world, across all disciplines and subject areas. Contains approximately 400,000 biographies and full-text articles  from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people by birth or death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine search fields. Subjects are worldwide but reference sources are almost exclusively US.

Coverage:

Current and retrospective reference sources

Number & Type of Contents:

Biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 427,000 biographies from nearly 1,000 volumes of more than 135 Gale sources from the past 50 years. [numbers current as of 10/06] Subjects are worldwide but reference sources are almost exclusively US.

Geographic Focus:

Worldwide

Tools Available:

An online list of sources indexed is available. An online research guide and  search tips are also available.

Formats:

Electronic Resource

Type:

Biographies, Abstracts, Databases, & Indexes

Subjects:

American History, Biography, General & Multidisciplinary, History

Liaison:

P. Sandstrom

URL:

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?locID=iulib_fw