AustLit

The AustLit team has started the new year by making plans for, and getting started, on a year full of activity that will build our content, deliver new services, and grow our community of users in Australia and internationally.

Watch out for:

– Direct links to full text in Informit databases. AustLit is now partnering with RMIT Publishing to deliver links to available full text. Researchers from subscribing organisations will see Informit links on AustLit records where full text is available making it easy to move from a contextualised AustLit record to an article, poem, or story. See AustLit's records for Meanjin, for example.

– AustLit's own collection of full text will be relaunched in February with new search, discovery, and downloading options. You'll be able to read our texts on your e-reader, search the texts for words and phrases and see where they appear in the text. There'll also be a new collection of Australian poetry drawn from the newspapers database

– In partnership with Copyright Agency, AustLit will deliver a new set of information trails for the Reading Australia project. If you're teaching an Australian text this year at primary, secondary, or tertiary levels, make sure you check out the rich collection of resources under development at the Reading Australia site.

– Rich content relating to the centenary of the ANZAC Gallipoli campaign.

– A new collection of AustLit user guides. If you're a journalist, a teacher, a bookseller, a librarian, an academic, or student, you'll get tips and a fresh look at how you can use this amazing resource.

– And, of course, we'll continue indexing and describing new Australian and Australia related publications throughout the year. We'll blog, tweet, and make more and more connections between and to the world of literature and storytelling.

Watch this space and get in touch to let us know what you'd like to see AustLit do.