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The Australian Literature Resource
This page features tools and services developed by the Aus-e-Lit Project (2008-2011) and provides links to other freely available online tools.
With a steadily increasing amount of online resources, researchers and students can take advantage of tools that are designed to deal with the ‘digital deluge’ of online information. Strategic use of these tools has the potential to support a research commons for AustLit users.
Developed by the Aus-e-Lit Project (2008-2011) to support independent and collaborative scholarship online, LORE enables users to collect and share internet resources, annotate web-pages and export collections of internet resources in a variety of formats, including AustLit Trails.
LORE is an extension to the Firefox Browser. To install LORE in your Firefox browser, please visit Mozilla Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lore/
To create annotations or resource maps, you will need to sign up for a new user account here.
Open LORE by clicking on the 
icon in the browser status bar, or select 'LORE' from Firefox's Tools menu. Resource Maps are displayed in a panel at the bottom of the browser, while Annotations appear in the sidebar to the right. You can view a manual for using the Annotation tool under the 'Using Annotations' tab in the Annotation sidebar. A manual for Resource Maps is available under the 'Using Resource Maps' tab in the Resource Maps panel.
Watch the video tutorials for demonstrations of LORE's capabilities.
With an increasing amount of full-text freely available on the internet, web-based text-analysis applications can be very useful. Voyeur Tools enables you to add text in a variety of ways and quickly generate reports and queries.
Google Maps enables you to create customised maps for teaching and research purposes. Create the map yourself or collaborate with others.
To bring colleagues and students together for online meetings and consultations, the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) has developed a free desktop video-collaboration service. Simply register for an account at the EVO@AU web-site and you can start organising video collaboration immediately.
Omeka is a free, open source publishing system for online digital archives. It allows users to publish cultural heritage objects and curate online exhibits with digital objects.
