AustLit

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0:00 Begin by going to Advanced Search.

0:08 Then tick the box marked 'Full text available'.

0:11 If you run the search now

0:14 you'll get a very large number of results.

0:20 We recommend instead that you narrow down the search.

0:24 Limit the search by form

0:32 and / or by genre

0:42 to get a more manageable number of results.

0:47 You can go directly to the full text from the results page

0:51 using the blue tick or orange square.

0:54 Or go to the work record

0:56 and click 'Read Online'.

0:59 Your search is done!

AustLit is not exclusively a full-text database: not all of the records listed on AustLit contain full text.

Full text on AustLit is usually one of three alternatives:

• work published originally in digital format and linked from its work record.
• work digitised by either AustLit or a third party (such as the National Library of Australia's Trove) and linked from its work record.
• original work produced and published by AustLit.

If we include full text for a work, it will be apparent in two ways:

• either an orange square (for works digitised by AustLit) or a blue tick (for works published externally) next to a work's title in a search result.
• a 'Read Online' button on the top left-hand corner of a work record.

AustLit provides access to many thousands of full-text works: we recommend using filters to limit your search results when looking for full text.