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AustLit in 2010

AustLit in 2010. UQ Cyberschool 12 April 2010 Carol Hetherington. AustLit Today. News. Events. Milestones. What is AustLit?. A unique literary resource providing a record of the national literature from 1788 to the present

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AustLit in 2010

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  1. AustLit in 2010 UQ Cyberschool 12 April 2010 Carol Hetherington

  2. AustLit Today News Events Milestones

  3. What is AustLit? • A unique literary resource providing a record of the national literature from 1788 to the present • A not-for-profit collaboration between nine universities and the National Library of Australia, with substantial funding from the Australian Research Council, the ALTC (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) and NeAT (National eResearch Architecture Taskforce)

  4. AustLit covers • Literary and popular fiction in all genres • Drama • Poetry • Life-writing • Biography • Children’s and Young Adult literature • Essays • Literary criticism • Literary history • Reviews

  5. AustLit indexes • Books • Newspapers • Magazines • Scholarly journals • e-journals • Websites

  6. AustLit provides • Detailed and authoritative biographical information about Australian authors • Information about publishers and literary organisations • Full bibliographic records for Australian literary works across the full range of genres • Subject indexing and keyword searching

  7. AustLit caters for special interest areas

  8. Children’s Literature

  9. CLDR

  10. Black Words

  11. Black Words Concept

  12. Black Words Calendar of Events

  13. New to AustLit • AustLit Anthology of Criticism • Teaching Aust. Lit. Resource - TAL • Federated Searching -Beta • Searchable full text

  14. AustLit Anthology of Criticism

  15. AustLit Anthology • Targeted at upper secondary and lower tertiary students • Freely available from the Austlit site • Contains downloadable information about 18 Australian writers and 77 full text critical articles • Provides links to further resources within AustLit for subscribers.

  16. Teaching Aust. Lit. • Known by the acronym TAL • Affiliated with AustLit • Funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council • Designed to provide information and a forum for tertiary and secondary teachers • Database of courses teaching Australian Literature • Linked back to AustLit content and records for subscribers

  17. Teaching Aust. Lit.

  18. Most-taught authors

  19. Top texts

  20. Units studied – by institution

  21. AustLit supports flexible search options • Quick search: keyword, author and title options • Guided search: search on the most commonly used fields and is useful for combination searches eg. author + title or year of publication + subject • Advanced search: for complex queries or unusual field combinations. It supports searching on the full range of AustLit fields and allows you to select and deselect over 30 author and work search options. • Federated search –still in beta mode • Full text search –still in beta mode

  22. Quick Search – Author Simplest AustLit search James Moloney

  23. Author ‘Front Page’ James Moloney

  24. James Moloney – Awards

  25. James Moloney (cont)

  26. James Moloney Website

  27. Moloney Website – PANDORA

  28. Moloney Website

  29. The House on River Terrace

  30. The House on River Terrace

  31. The House on River Terrace – About

  32. The House on River Terrace – Holdings

  33. House on River Terrace – Holdings

  34. Quick Search – Keyword

  35. Quick Search – Keyword

  36. Quick Search – Keyword – Refine

  37. Quick Search – Keyword – Refine Limit to Poetry

  38. Quick Search – Keyword – Refine Refine search by form Sort by electronic resource

  39. Read Online Full text of poem available

  40. Genre Search – Guided Search

  41. Genre Search Series-Publisher Crime Detective

  42. Genre Search – Results Children’s crime series

  43. Genre Search – Results

  44. Genre Search – Results

  45. Federated Search Search for Mem Fox Select from these data sources

  46. Federated Search – Mem Fox

  47. Contact us • For a free trial • For searching help • With suggestions for improvement • info-austlit@austlit.edu.au • Comment links on each page • AustLit feedback form

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