It indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Coverage is from 1973 - present Documentation Sources Source Titles List for the Bibliography of the History of Art database at the Research Libraries Group web site. Subject encyclopedias, which include some biographical entries. Volumes of literary criticism, which may contain only a limited amount of biographical information but give critical surveys of a writer's works. The database is an online version of the print index with the same name.
Coverage is both retrospective and current.
Documentation Sources Help screens are available from all screens in the database by clicking on the word Help top button bar. Biography Index Description Indexes more than 3,000 English-language journals and newspapers, some 2000 books or chapters of books, and books of collective biographies each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews in all subject areas. Coverage is from July 1984 - present. Documentation Sources Help screens are available from most screens in the database by clicking on the word Help in the right blue bar.