Australian literature

AustLit is a collaboration between eight Australian Universities and the National Library of Australia providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day. AustLit indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of print and electronic information sources. It also makes available selected critical articles and creative writing in full text. Researchers, bibliographers and librarians, working around the country, gather information about Australian writers and writing, providing authoritative information on and facilitating access to Australian literature--URL: http://www.austlit.edu.au/about.

Bibliographic database that indexes published material on Australian social sciences and humanities. Source documents include periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers, and books. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Inclusive coverage from 1978 to present.

This worldwide database provides comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information on authors from all genres including fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, and television. Current writers, as well as the most studied literary figures of the early 20th century, are featured.

Expanded Academic ASAP contains citations and many full-text articles on current events, general sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Designed primarily to support undergraduate-level research, the database is useful to anyone seeking information on these topics. Journal coverage is from 1994 to the present, and backfiles (1980-1993) are available for some journals.

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Factiva provides access to full text coverage of Australian newspapers, including The Australian Financial Review and BRW, and newspapers and news wires from around the world. Factiva also includes brief company and industry profiles, financial information for listed companies worldwide, and global coverage of financial market data.

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Contains detailed inventories of more than 85 manuscript collections in six major Australian libraries. It covers more than 65 Australian authors, including Peter Carey, Miles Franklin, David Malouf, Kenneth Slessor and Christina Stead. The collections can be browsed by author, and each guide can be browsed by table of contents. The complete collection, and the individual guides, can also be searched by keyword.

A master index to the major literature products published by Gale and the imprints Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press and Twayne Publishers. It combines and cross-references more than 135,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and over 165,000 titles into one source.

The literary magazine is an important part of Australia's literary and cultural heritage. Some of these magazines are now being offered in the Informit Literature & Culture Collection, including Meanjin, Quadrant, Island, Wet Ink, Griffith Review and Southerly. The Literature & culture collection provides a rich source of the fiction, poetry, cultural politics, commentaries, debate and ideas that have helped define the unique Australian identity. It was created in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts.

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This bibliographic database indexes the international literature in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts (including theatre, film, music and media culture). It contains more than 2 million records. The classified listing and subject index are compiled by the staff of the Modern Language Association Department of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. The Bibliography first appeared in 1926, as a section within the journal PMLA, and became a separate publication in 1969. The electronic version first appeared in the late 1970s, and for a long time only covered volumes from 1963 onwards; as of April 2006, the entire print run is included, from 1926 to the present.

"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text ... includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637."--Publisher description.

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The Source is a searchable bibliographic database of children's books, poetry, short stories and literary awards. Where a poem or short story is out of copyright, the full text is included. Short biographical details of authors, illustrators and poets are also included.

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