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KG Saur World Biographical Information System Online
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With the World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online) K. G. Saur presents the most comprehensive and extensive biographical online library. Using all the possibilities afforded by the 21st century to provide access to approximately 10 million entries from over 8,600 reference works: works written since the 16th century in 40 languages and comprising more than 15,000 volumes.
A wealth of biographical information on more than 5 million people: men and women from all classes and professions, from all countries and regions of the earth, from the 4th millennium BC to the present – here in lies the uniqueness of this database.
WBIS Online is based on the digitization of the microfiche editions of K. G. Saur’s Biographical Archives, which will be completed by 2009. 24 digitized Biographical Archives are currently available in digitized form. WBIS Online will be enlarged each year by about 1 million original biographical entries from 7 to 9 further Biographical Archives.
