Comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 275,000 people. Combines over 400,000 biographies from more than 700 volumes of over 90 sources.

This database contains the full text of the biographies and obituaries that have appeared in Current Biography yearbook since 1940. Over 15,000 biographical sketches and obituaries. Includes illustrations and photographs.

56,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles, including some illustrations. Includes the complete text of the original DNB and its supplements.

Citations to all original reference works in which information on the individual appears, and the location of the source work in the companion biographical archive microfiche collection. Over 3.6 million short biographical entries North and South America, Africa and Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.