Biography in context tutorials

          Access Training Materials for Gale In Context: Biography..

          Best for: Assignments needing information on authors, scientists, politicians, artists, celebrities, historical figures, etc.

        1. Best for: Assignments needing information on authors, scientists, politicians, artists, celebrities, historical figures, etc.
        2. This tutorial shows you how to use topic pages in Gale In Context: Biography to research people from all times, regions, and fields of work or study.
        3. Access Training Materials for Gale In Context: Biography.
        4. 9 years ago more.
        5. Users can browse or search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by.

          6. Database Tutorials

          Reading Results and Articles

          Results

          Results pages vary in BIC, but if you've searched for someone of relative importance or notoriety, like Robert Capa below, your screen will look something like this:

           

          At the top of the page are some quick facts about the person - dates, a photo, the beginning of a biography.

          On the right side of the page is a list of all the documents about that person by type: biography, photo, audio, video, news articles, websites, magazine articles, etc.

          This list will change depending on what is available for that person.

          The rest of the page is separated by those content type categories with a previews of 3 articles of each kind. To see all the documents, click on the title of the content type you wish to look at.

          To see a document in full, click on its title.

           

          Articles

          All of the articles in our Gale databases are full-text, so you don't have to worry about using Interlibrary Loan here!