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The World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online) promised to be one of the most comprehensive biographical databases, containing information published in reference works from the 16th Century to the present. Men and women from all centuries, from all regions of the world, and from all societies and professions are included.

WBIS Online is based on the digitization of the microfiche editions of K. G. Saur Verlag's Biographical Archives. For each individual Biographical Archive, the original texts of each biographical article from various reference works were taken, and facsimile reproductions were arranged alphabetically according to the person's name. These articles are reproduced in WBIS Online as exact copies of the original articles. WBIS Online provides access to biographical information published in reference works from the 16th Century to the present, not available as such an extensive collection in any library in the world.

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