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Biography:

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1. LicencedBiography Resource Center

Gale Group: This resource combines biographies from over 880 volumes of more than 135 Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers

2. 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

3. FreeAustralian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian National University: This is the Internet version of the ADB's traditional print volumes. The biographical articles are those found in the printed ADB: Volumes 1 to 16 in the continuing series and the Supplementary Volume. The articles are concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history. Also available in print in the Main Reading Room at RF 920.094 AUS.

4. LicencedAmerican National Biography

Oxford University Press: American National Biography is a fully searchable resource offering portraits of more than 18,000 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, who have made an impact

5. 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

6. FreeDictionary of New Zealand Biography

This website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It includes the collected biographies originally published

7. 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.

8. OnsiteCHRONICLES - The Australian Chronicles : An Index to Sources of Australian Biography

Informit: Resource designed to assist genealogists, historians and researchers locate biographical information on as wide a range of Australians as possible. Its entries point to biographical information in a wide variety of sources, including Who's Whos, biographical dictionaries, topical and local histories, and published family histories. Entries cover all periods of Australian history.

9. 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.

10. FreeAustralian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI)

State Library of Victoria: The database contains biographical information on over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s through to 1875, who were registered or qualified in Australia, or visited Australia in a professional capacity. There's also ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists included.

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Our subject guides

"Australian biography: print resources"

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