Biography Resource Center

Quick Summary

Biography Resource Center is Gale's premier biographical online reference database, designed to meet the needs of public, academic, special and school libraries throughout the world. The information contained within Biography Resource Center is perfect for a multitude of subject areas such as, but not limited to, science, multicultural studies, business, politics, government, history, entertainment, sports, the arts, and literature.

Biography Resource Center contains more than 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people gathered from more than 1,000 volumes of more than 135 award-winning Gale reference sources as well as full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines specifically chosen for their value to biographical research.

NEW! Biography Resource Center now offers a contemporized interface, as well as new features that improve usability, emphasize currency, and offer new pathways to information. These include:

• Category Browse, which provides quick access to biographical profiles and other resources on individuals in more than 15 categories (and growing), including athletes, world leaders, multicultural groups and more
• Results lists that display and order full-length biographies by date last updated
• New eye-catching icon for Recent News updates
• Word counts following citations for individual full-length biographies on results lists
• Renamed reference content tabs for improved clarity and navigation
• More direct access to open Web addresses from the vetted Websites tab
• Marquis Who's Who results behind the Brief biographies tab instead of a separate tab