A new resource for biographies

“Information Gathering” researchers and other journalism students will be glad to hear of a new library resource for biographies. The Biography Reference Bank, available at http://www.hwwilson.com/_promotrials/amigos/login.cfm, allows online access to basic biographical information on over 500,000 people, including over 60 contemporary journalists.* You can read more about the database at http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/biobank.htm.

To access the current trial version of Biography Reference Bank, sign-in using the password bracken@bsu.edu.

To use the database, select the Biography Reference Bank from the list of databases on Wilson Web, and type in your search criteria, as shown here (click image to enlarge):

Then, choose the correct reference from the list (click image to enlarge):

And view the additional information (click image to enlarge):

The University Libraries' trial of the Biography Reference Bank database ends on December 31, 2006. Please consider purchasing this resource with your department's library funds if you wish to continue using it.

For more information or to schedule a training session on using this database, please contact
Stacy.

(*Data from a search for journalists born since 1970.)