Australian Dictionary of Biography
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The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is a multi volume project published by Melbourne University Press. The first volume was published in 1966.
The project has been operating since 1957 with staff from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. 4000 authors have contributed to the project. Indexes and reference material compiled during the project are available to researchers.
Volume 16 was published in November 2002 and completed the series (volumes 13-16) for people who died between 1940 and 1980. Volumes 17 and 18 will cover people who died between and 1990. A Supplementary volume of Australians not covered by the original volumes was released in 2005.
On 6 July 2006, the online version of the Australian Dictionary of Biography was launched by Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia.
The project should not be confused with the much smaller and older Dictionary of Australian Biography by Percival Serle first published in 1949.
