May 3, 2011 – Gale Biography in Context provides nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. The database is a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content in context that's updated daily to meet the needs of today’s user. In it you’ll find:

• 600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals
• 170+ award-winning Gale reference titles
• 50,000 new or updated bios added annually in addition to daily updates to account for awards and events
• Integrated reference material, periodical information and multimedia content
• Hundreds of hand-crafted topic pages covering the highest-interest features

The included Lives & Perspectives Collection supports university coursework by providing multidisciplinary content on notable figures and the societal forces that have shaped their lives. The integration of this collection provides first-time-ever access to 160,000 bios drawn from:

• American Men & Women of Science
• Encyclopaedia Judaica
• Governments of the World
• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
• And nearly 40 other respected titles from Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale