The biographies are enhanced with recent citations from Wilson's Biography Index . Also in the database are obituaries of people who were profiled in Current Biography . An index of people profiled in Current Biography since 1940. The Current Biography databases feature both keyword searching of the full-text of the articles and controlled vocabulary searching.
Examples illustrate searchable data elements.
The date of the subject's birth. Search qualifier BB Examples jan. Searchable as a phrase. You may search for month, day, and year or just month and day, or just year. The date may be expressed by searching on variant forms.