Biography in context [electronic resource]
- Responsibility
- Gale Cengage Learning.
- Imprint
- Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, 1999-
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Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Gale (Firm)
- Gale Research Inc.
- Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. This database merges Gale's reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, keyword and full text--excerpted from the Gale Databases page on 24 Sept. 2010.
Subjects
- Subjects
- Biography > Databases.
- Biography > Periodicals > Databases.
- Database topics
- General and Reference Works
Bibliographic information
- Beginning date
- 1999
- Title variation
- Title on Gale list of databases: Gale biography in context + Marquis Who's who
- Biography in context
- Who's who
- Former title
- Biography resource center
- File characteristics
- Electronic bibliographic database.
- Access
- Access limited to subscribers.
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Included Work
- Merrian-Webster's biographical dictionary.
- Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary.