A body of texts digitised by AustLit as part of several research projects is housed within the database. These texts are identified by the AustLit Full Text symbol. This body of texts is fully searchable and can be downloaded for research purposes; it includes the following material:

• Australian fiction and poetry
  More than two hundred works of Australian fiction and poetry have been digitised with the support of the University of Sydney's SETIS program. These works range from the early nineteenth century to the 1930s. The texts were selected on the basis of academic and teaching staff surveys and advice. These have now been incorporated into the AustLit Full Text collection. More works will be added to this collection as they become available. Click here to browse the full collection of Australian fiction and poetry.
• The AustLit Anthology of Criticism
  The AustLit Anthology of Criticism provides biographical information and authoritative articles by leading scholars on major Australian writers and their works. The critical articles have been incorporated into the AustLit Full Text collection. Click here to browse these texts.
• Other Criticism
  AustLit has digitised a number of important critical articles, reviews and surveys by Australian literature scholars relating to significant Australian authors, their works and other general literary subjects. As a special project of AustLit during 2002/2003, many of these were digitised by the University of Sydney's Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) program. These have now been incorporated into the AustLit Full Text collection. Over time, more texts will be added to this collection to provide increasingly richer search results. Click here to see the full list of critical articles.
• Children's Literature Resources
  The Children's Literature Resources collection in AustLit contains a selection of primary and secondary resources that have been digitised by AustLit, through cooperation with various Australian libraries, as part of the Children's Literature Digital Resources (CLDR) project. Click here to see the full list of texts in the CLDR project.

Find AustLit Full Text using the Full Text Search screen and the Full Text Browse screen.

AustLit locates and provides pathways to other full-text resources or internet publications, identified by the symbol, through links to:

• full text services such as SETIS and Project Gutenberg
• electronic archives such as the Internet Archive and PANDORA (The National Library of Australia's electronic archive of relevant Australian web-based publications and websites of organisations and individuals)
• a wide range of repositories such as state and university libraries
• freely available internet publications such as open access periodicals and newspapers

• There are approximately 48,151 full text works available through AustLit including:

  • 17,806 poems
  • 3,513 short stories
  • 272 novels
  • 1,952 criticisms
  • 4,297 reviews

• All full text works available within AustLit are identified by the symbol or the symbol
• AustLit Guided search and Advanced search screens both allow limiting a search to full text material by ticking the 'Limit to full text' box
• The Federated searchincludes results from a range of full text resources such as Google Books and Australian Digital Theses.

For those works not available electronically AustLit can show which Australian libraries hold particular monographs and journals by interacting with The National Bibliographic Database via Libraries Australia. The holdings information provided through AustLit is by kind permission of the National Library of Australia.

Library Holdings results are returned by clicking on the Library Holdings link next to the title of a work. They show libraries holding the work, sorted by state, and the call number for the work.