AustLit
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AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature) is a national bio-bibliographical database of Australian literature. It is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, housed at The University of Queensland (UQ). The AustLit database comprises biographical and bibliographical records of Australian storytelling and print cultures, with over 1 million individual 'work' records, and over 75 discrete research projects. One such project, BlackWords, is a dataset within AustLit detailing the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers.
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature) is a national bio-bibliographical database of Australian literature. It is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, housed at The University of Queensland (UQ). The AustLit database comprises biographical and bibliographical records of Australian storytelling and print cultures, with over 1 million individual 'work' records, and over 75 discrete research projects. One such project, BlackWords, is a dataset within AustLit detailing the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers.
Changes in coverage over time
Over time, some inclusion criteria have widened: In 2007, oral histories and life story works were included as part of the development of BlackWords. The Australian Popular Theatre dataset led to the inclusion of burlesque theatre works. The Colonial Newspapers and Magazines Project added advertisements and works by international authors. Coverage of scriptwriters in the film and television industry, along with associated production history, was extended in 2010.
Use in research
AustLit is a key information resource for the study of Australian literature and related fields. Due to its comprehensive record of Australian publishing history, AustLit serves as an important source of data for analysing and understanding Australian literary history. Researchers use AustLit to develop datasets for specific fields of study. These projects include histories of books, magazines, and publishing; regionally-based surveys of publishing activity; and thematically-based subsets. Research into Australian popular and pulp fiction is supported, alongside research into theatre history, drama and multicultural writers.
Usage
AustLit subscribers include research and educational institutions, and libraries, which provide access for their members and subscribers. Guest usage is limited to volunteers and access under special circumstances, with the general public having access to five pages per day. Subscribers can electronically export data from AustLit. AustLit is archived by the National Library of Australia's PANDORA archive and the US Library of Congress has archived snapshots of the AustLit website since 2009. AustLit's copyright is licensed under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Australia.
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