World Biographical Information System WBIS This link opens in a new windowOffers short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Africa and Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. Useful for finding historical figures in older biographical sources. NUL has most of the source documents in various sets of microfiche, in cases where NUL doesn't own the original works, or the original has not been digitized.