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11. FreeDictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO)

University of New South Wales: Dynamic and scholarly, the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO) provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and images. Providing authoritative, contemporary information the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online facilitates, promotes and encourages scholarship on Australian artists. The foundation data focuses predominantly on Colonial artists; women artists to 1950; black and white artists; Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and the Sydney region. It is constantly being added to.

12. FreeDictionary of Australian Biography

Project Gutenberg of Australia: This resource is the online version of the Dictionary of Australian Biography by Percival Serle published in 1949. It contain 1030 biographies of Australians who were closely connected with Australia and who died before the end of 1942. The average length of the biographies is about 640 words, and they are roughly classified into the following groups: Army and Navy; Artists, including architects, actors, and musicians; Governors and administrators; Lawyers; Literary men and Notorieties; Pioneers, explorers, pastoralists, men of business; Politicians; Scholars, philosophers, clergymen; Scientists, including physicians, surgeons, and engineers; Social reformers, philanthropists, educationists; and Sporting men (cricketers and athletes). The number of women included is 42. Also available in print in the Main Reading Room at RF 920.094 S485.

13. OnsiteINDBIO - Indian Biography Database

Informit: INDBIO is a database containing details of 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. INDBIO provides a comprehensive dictionary of the men and women who have been India's legislators since 1977.

14. FreeIt's an Honour: The Australian Honours System

Information on the Australian Honours System, and a database giving names of recipients of Australian and Imperial awards.

15. FreeMusic Australia

National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive: This resource helps you to find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services from a single access point. You can find music scores, sound recordings, websites and a range of other music-related material held by a large number of Australia's cultural institutions or described by specialist music services. It includes all formats, styles and genres, and both heritage and contemporary music. Information about people and organisations is also included.

16. LicencedOxford Dictionary of National Biography

Oxford University Press: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.

17. FreeOzLife: Australian Biography Index

National Library of Australia: OzLife commenced in September 2000 (includes earlier articles from The Canberra Times) and provides web access until June 2005 to the citations for biographical articles selected from the following Australian major national and metropolitan newspapers: The Advertiser (Adelaide); The Age (Melbourne); The Australian; The Australian Financial Review; The Canberra Times; The Courier Mail (Brisbane); The Mercury (Hobart); The Sydney Morning Herald; and The West Australian. Articles on prominent Australians in all walks of life, including musicians, authors, politicians and business executives, are included. Until September 2002 OzLife also indexed book reviews on works of Australian fiction and non-fiction which appeared in Australian journals and newspapers.

18. FreePapers of Sir Joseph Banks

State Library of NSW: The present work is limited to those papers of Sir Joseph Banks which are held in the Mitchell and Dixson collections at the State Library of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. These amount to approximately 10,000 manuscript pages and include correspondence, principally letters received, but also reports, invoices and accounts, journals, plus a small quantity of maps, charts and watercolours. During the course of this Project, the papers of Sir Joseph Banks have been arranged into 96 series, mindful of Banks' original and subsequently dispersed arrangement. These series have been grouped together under nineteen section headings. The journal kept by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour (1768-1771) has been treated differently to all other documents for the purposes of this Project. A full transcription has been provided for this journal only, in addition to facsimile reproduction.

19. LicencedProQuest Asian Business and Reference

ProQuest: ProQuest Asian Business and Reference offers detailed information on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. A great deal of information on international trade is available as well. Coverage is from 1972- and includes: News and current awareness sources Frequently updated full-text coverage of political, social, economic, cultural, financial, and business news stories at national and regional levels from key newspapers, magazines, and journals. Country information and statistics Political, economic, social, and business profiles; guides and outlooks; core national and regional statistics; frequently updated economic, financial, and demographic series and analysis. People and institutions Organizational, directory, and biographical information for national government, the civil service, and business and cultural organizations. Policy and analysis National and regional level full-text archive of white papers, government documents, journals, and legislation, complete with selected topic analysis.

20. LicencedTimes Digital Archive [1785-1985]

Gale Group: The Times Digital Archive has millions of articles from the London Times. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

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"Australian biography: print resources"

The Library holds a large range of biographical material on Australians. This guide contains selected print works only.