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Indian Biography Database - INDBIO
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Access
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Informit Access INDBIO
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Coverage
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1977
- April 1996
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Subject
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The
members of India's lower-house (the Lok Sabha) of Parliament elected
between 1977 and 1991. The database includes biographical information
provided by the members of parliament, and includes death dates, references
to obituary notices, and notes about recent events in legislators'
careers.
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Geographic coverage
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India
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Includes
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Fields
for elements such as personal name, religion, date of birth, political
party and the parliaments in which a person served.
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Non-electronic version
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Authentication
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IP
address or password authentication
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User guide
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Truncation: (*) serves as a substitute for any string of zero or more
characters,e.g. tax* finds tax, taxes, taxation, taxing
Within a word (*) serves as a substitute for one character or none. Multiple asterisks (***) replace tup to that number of characters. e.g. colo*r
finds color or colour. dra***t finds draft of draught
Once logged on select Database Information for description
of the database, select Help for description of the search
software.
Informit Search - Quick Reference Guide (pdf) - on Informit website
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Number of users allowed
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Not limited
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Publisher
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School
of Politics, La Trobe University, Melbourne
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Notes
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It
is important to be sensitive to spelling when using INDBIO. The variety
of accepted spellings of Indian names make it important for users
to think widely about how an organization or person may be styled.
Whether, for example, "Subhashini Ali" will be alphabetically listed
under "S" or "A" is not predictable. Similarly, to omit one of the
two "h's" in "Subhashini" will result in a search that fails to turn
up the 1989 MP for Kanpur.
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Revised:
10-Jul-2007 14:39
:: Content by: Electronic Services Librarian |
