Paul Robeson Library

More new databases available through Rutgers University Libraries:
Current Biography

Current Biography contains more than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries from all of the volumes of Current Biography Yearbook, from 1940 to the present. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, and keywords.

Marquis Who’s Who on the Web

Brief biographical information in directory format.  More than 20 Who’s Who books, including Who’s Who in America and its regional volumes, Who’s Who in Business and Finance and other volumes covering professions, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in American Politics, and Who’s Who in American History (featuring all of the 110,000 biographies from the Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607-1985).

World Biographical Index (WBI)

WBI is an index to the biographical articles collected from many different sources in the KG Saur microfiche collections known as biographical archives and the World Biographical Information System (WBIS) database that provides online fulltext from these archives. The entries in WBI do not link to WBIS fulltext, but they identify the individuals’ full names, country, profession, birth and death dates, and references for the print and microfiche publications where the articles may be found. There are biographical details on more than 5.24 million people from the 8th century BC onward.