The Yale University Library has now purchased the full-text portion of the World Biographical Information System (WBIS). WBIS includes almost 5.5 million biographical entries of men and women from all classes and professions, and from all countries and regions of the world, from the 8th century BCE to the present. Use the Basic Search option to look up an individual by name, or the Biographical Search to identify individuals by date of birth or death, occupation, or "archive" (i.e. country, region or culture). Many individuals are represented in more than one biographical archive; for example, Albert Einstein is included in the German Biographical Archive, the American Biographical Archive, and the Jewish Biographical Archive, among others. To read the full text of an article, click on "View Digitized Article(s) from Archive".
The WBIS is one more addition to a growing list of online resources for biographical data available to the Yale community:
The African American National Biography
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie/Neue Deutsche Biographie
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biography Index Past and Present
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
For more information about these and other databases, please contact smlref <at> yale <dot> edu.
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