
The Australian Literature Resource
AustLit aims to be the premier resource for Australian literature so it is gratifying to hear when we have met – or exceeded – our clients' needs. Here is a sample of the comments received by AustLit from our subscribers, enquirers, authors and other users:
Congratulations on a fascinating database! I've been glued to it for a couple of days ... Thanks again for many enjoyable hours! (May 2007)
AustLit is the most authoritative source of info on all things literary and Australian - I rely on you guys so much. (February 2007)
I LOVE this database. The fact that I can easily track down reviews on the novels I'm discussing in my PhD-thesis on WWI in Australian novels is priceless. (November 2006)
I want to say a big thank you for your gracious and generous offer of the guest pass for AustLit to research [an Australian woman writer]. The biographical information AustLit had was absolutely invaluable and made all the difference in profiling her. No other source of information had the important details that AustLit had about her. I am very grateful to you for allowing me to use AustLit ... Thank you again and again. (October 2006)
Thanks for the wonderful database, it is absolutely indispensable, and seems to get better each time I use it. Lecturer, University of Western Australia (December 2005)
May I say that [AustLit] is a fantastic resource, many congratulations! Academic, University of Melbourne (June, 2005)
[AustLit] offers unparalleled coverage of Australian literature ... AustLit is an indispensable tool for research into Australian literature. Bert Almon, Professor of English at the University of Alberta, Canada, in a review of AustLit published in the American Library Association's journal, Choice, 14.11 (2005).
AustLit is a fabulous thing; and indispensable for doing Aus Studies outside Australia. (2005)
Thank you very much, I really appreciate your assistance. The information you provided will help me understand the value and importance of my uncle's extraordinary career. (2005)
A thousand thanks for this wonderful resource! (2005)
Lots of thanks for the info which, working from France, I had no chance of finding by myself. You have been very helpful. (2005)
I must say how exciting it was first to be able to track a friend's poetry and early writing through this database, and then to find my own tentative footsteps into Australian writing here recorded (much to my surprise and delight). Thank you so much. (October 2007)
Keep up the good work, please. Aussie writers need a database like yours. Short story writer (June 2007)
Thank you for your amazing website and all the detailed, accurate information which you provide. Poet (April 2007)
AustLit is a wonderful resource. Thank you for making it happen ... Looking through the information about me, I was amazed to be reminded of so many articles and reviews which I have written but completely forgotten about! Essayist and reviewer (January 2006)
AustLit is of course a God-send! (June 2005)
I have now had the pleasure of browsing for the first time through AustLit's considerable not-for-profit resource and congratulate you on the provision of such a valuable national data base. I was quite astonished (and, of course, pleased) to find that my own work was noted in some detail... Novelist and playwright (January 2006)
What a great resource this is. The librarian in me is thrilled. (2005)
I must compliment you again - and your colleagues - on producing so wonderful and valuable a research resource as AustLit. May it long prosper! (2005)
Keep up the jolly good work. (2005)
AustLit is a marvellous resource and I admire your work on it enormously. (2005)
[By the way,] I love the AustLit database. I use it all the time. It's an absolute gem. Thanks for all the work you and your colleagues put in to it. (2005)
Thanks very much for giving me the password so I could go in and have a look at this rich resource. It is terribly impressive and better than any CV I've ever put together. (2005)
Thanks for AustLit: such an incredibly useful and inspiring data base. (January 2007)
I am so incredibly glad that this website exists. It has everything a person could want to know about contemporary Australian literature on the one site. Thankyou. (2005)
I believe your endeavours with AustLit to be of huge importance and aid to amateurs such as myself, and I value it highly. (2005)
You have been an amazing help to us and we thank you most sincerely. (2005)
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