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AustLit in 2010. UQ Cyberschool 12 April 2010 Carol Hetherington. AustLit Today. News. Events. Milestones. What is AustLit?. A unique literary resource providing a record of the national literature from 1788 to the present
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AustLit in 2010 UQ Cyberschool 12 April 2010 Carol Hetherington
AustLit Today News Events Milestones
What is AustLit? • A unique literary resource providing a record of the national literature from 1788 to the present • A not-for-profit collaboration between nine universities and the National Library of Australia, with substantial funding from the Australian Research Council, the ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) and NeAT (National eResearch Architecture Taskforce)
AustLit covers • Literary and popular fiction in all genres • Drama • Poetry • Life-writing • Biography • Children’s and Young Adult literature • Essays • Literary criticism • Literary history • Reviews
AustLit indexes • Books • Newspapers • Magazines • Scholarly journals • e-journals • Websites
AustLit provides • Detailed and authoritative biographical information about Australian authors • Information about publishers and literary organisations • Full bibliographic records for Australian literary works across the full range of genres • Subject indexing and keyword searching
New to AustLit • AustLit Anthology of Criticism • Teaching Aust. Lit. Resource - TAL • Federated Searching -Beta • Searchable full text
AustLit Anthology • Targeted at upper secondary and lower tertiary students • Freely available from the Austlit site • Contains downloadable information about 18 Australian writers and 77 full text critical articles • Provides links to further resources within AustLit for subscribers.
Teaching Aust. Lit. • Known by the acronym TAL • Affiliated with AustLit • Funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council • Designed to provide information and a forum for tertiary and secondary teachers • Database of courses teaching Australian Literature • Linked back to AustLit content and records for subscribers
AustLit supports flexible search options • Quick search: keyword, author and title options • Guided search: search on the most commonly used fields and is useful for combination searches eg. author + title or year of publication + subject • Advanced search: for complex queries or unusual field combinations. It supports searching on the full range of AustLit fields and allows you to select and deselect over 30 author and work search options. • Federated search –still in beta mode • Full text search –still in beta mode
Quick Search – Author Simplest AustLit search James Moloney
Author ‘Front Page’ James Moloney
Quick Search – Keyword – Refine Limit to Poetry
Quick Search – Keyword – Refine Refine search by form Sort by electronic resource
Read Online Full text of poem available
Genre Search Series-Publisher Crime Detective
Genre Search – Results Children’s crime series
Federated Search Search for Mem Fox Select from these data sources
Contact us • For a free trial • For searching help • With suggestions for improvement • info-austlit@austlit.edu.au • Comment links on each page • AustLit feedback form