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WISER: Focus on …Biographical InformationAn introduction to the variety of online sources available.
Elements of both historical and contemporary information will be demonstrated.
Aspects such as details of life and other people’s perspectives as well as the general usefulness of biographical research will be covered.
Isabel Holowaty & Sue Bird
Biographical Information
Biographical facts Birth/death years & places Gender Ethnicity Education Occupation Family Likeness
Biographical Information
Narrative biography In-depth analysis of a person’s life, influence, achievements, etc. Other people’s perspectives Historical trends in assessment of a person’s life
Writings (i.e. bio-bibliography)
Living Biography : 1
KnowUK http://www.knowuk.co.uk/goHome.do Online service developed to provide UK reference information. Over 100 reference publications provide a comprehensive resource not usually available elsewhere online. Updated more frequently than the equivalent print copy.
Biographies - Debrett's People of Today, Concise DNB, Who's Who, Who was Who, etc
Biography : Pure & simple 2
Already dead?Who was Who (KnowUK)
National biographies (Dictionary of National Biography)
World Biographical Information SystemHistorical Directories & registersObituaries & newspapers
DNBOxford Dictionary of National Biography 55,500 people — 63 million words — 12,500 contributors — 10,000 images — Continuously revised on-line
What is the Oxford DNB? An illustrated collection of specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2002.
Who is in it? Remarkable people in any walk of life who were connected with the British Isles—excluding living people. It includes not just the great and good, but people who have left a mark for any reason, good, bad, or bizarre.
World Biographical Information System (WBIS)
Biographical information on people since 4th century B.C. Famous people, but also those regionally/locally known, for
their profession, peculiarities, etc. Index to biographical data and biographies published in
reference sources since 1559 Useful for biographical information & historical trends
WBIS cont.
Brief entries for 4+ million people; 3.85 digital facsim. articles; biographies of 2.38 million people
Covers most European countries, Turkey, Latin America, North America
Future countries to include biographical archives of Africa, China, Australasia, etc.
Historical directories & registers
Historical Directories (http:/www.historicaldirectories.org/)
Crockford’s clerical directory (current via KnowUK)
Physicians and irregular practitioners in London, 1550-1640 (via IHR website)
Office-holders in Modern Britain (via IHR website)
Obituaries & newspapersAll via OxLIP
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 Palmer's Full-Text Online / Index to The Times 1790-1905 Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980 Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2003 Lexis-Nexis News Service Westlaw Dialog News Service
Newspaper obituaries
Lexis-Nexis News Service
http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/business/home/home.do?
rand=0.8159166803865621 (within Oxford)
Coverage mainly from early / mid 1990’s but major titles are likely to be from late 70’s or 1980’s.
Other Sources
Biography Index (BiographyInd)
via OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)http://firstsearch.oclc.org/
COVERAGE: More than 2,700 English-language periodicals. More than1,800 books added each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews. July 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
Biobibliography
OLIS (inc. sw=bio-bibliography)
Standard searches in bibliographic and abstracting databases.
Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge
http://portal.isiknowledge.com/ Citation searching
Material published before the start of most on-line abstracting services
Non-English language material
Lesser known academic publications