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The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history. The ADB project has been operating since 1957. Staff are located at the National Centre of Biography in the History Department of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Since its inception, 4000 authors have contributed to the ADB and its published volumes contain 9,800 scholarly articles on 12,000 individuals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us - Australian Dictionary of Biography )〕 ==Volumes== To date, the ADB has produced eighteen volumes of biographical articles on important and representative figures in Australian history, published by Melbourne University Publishing. * Volumes 1 and 2 (published in 1966–67) covered subjects who lived in the period 1788–1850 * Volumes 3 to 6 (published in 1969–76) dealt with the period 1851–1890 * Volumes 7 to 12 (published in 1979–90) dealt with the period 1891–1939 * Volumes 13 to 16 (published in 1993–2002) dealt with the period 1940–1980 * Volumes 17 and 18 (published in 2007-2012) dealt with those who died between 1981 and 1990 * A Supplementary volume of Australians not covered by the original volumes was released in 2005. * An index to Volumes 1 to 12 was published in 1991. In addition to publishing these works, the ADB makes its primary research material available to the academic community and the public. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian Dictionary of Biography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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