The website Deutsche Biography - German Biography is a joint project of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Bavarian State Library, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, in the years 2007 to 2009. The website offers online access to thousands of biographies of historical individuals from all spheres of German public life. it currently includes the digital full text of more than 46,000 historical and biographical articles of the General German Biography (ADB, 56 volumes, 1875-1912) and the New German Biography (NDB, 23 volumes to date online, since 1953) as well as links the library resources of the Bavarian State Library, the Bavarian Union Catalogue and the German National Library.