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View articles from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography ADB , the largest and most successful cooperative research enterprise in the humanities and social sciences in Australia, represents the project's continuing revision process. The ADB going online in then seemed to be the major turning point.

At the time, it was the book reproduced online with a search function. The pace of change has quickened, however, since Volume 18 was published in Above all, the ADB Online now leads the process, with the hardcopy volume being published in its wake, rather than the other way around.

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Consideration of the implications this is having for the ADB hardcopy volumes brings to mind the thought experiment about the ship of Theseus. Gradually a ship's wooden parts need to be replaced by new ones. Over time every part might be replaced. At that point, is it the same ship or does it have a new identity? Let me review here the ways that the ADB hardcopy is being refitted.

The cover of this volume presents a new face, quite literally, as well as being soft rather than hard cover. It published 18 volumes, two volumes of the biographical register of notes of subjects, a supplementary volume of 'missing persons', an index to the first 12 volumes, a series of biographical registers on parliamentarians and some 'spin-off' collective biographies on 'diggers' and sportsmen.

It produced all of these past volumes to an impressively high standard of design. This change is disguised somewhat because the volume appears similar in many regards to its predecessors. In this way, the ADB 's long-standing visual identity, MUP's foundational design, lingers on thankfully by being incorporated in the new one. Our new publisher, ANU Press, has done a fine job, although the 'rare nine-point Juliana typeface' of earlier MUP volumes simply could not be replicated.