Australian Literature: Home

APAFT brings together over 550 journals covering Australia's political, economic and social affairs. Developed in partnership with the Australian Public Affairs Information Service produced by the National Library of Australia, the collection holds scanned images and articles on topics such as current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

Provides bibliographic and biographic references to Australian authors and their works, references to criticism, correspondence, interviews and theses dealing with Australian literature.

A searchable full text database of 18th, 19th and early 20th century Australian prose and verse. Access to more than 220 literary and historical texts.

View clips from Australian film and television produced over the last 100 years, with curators notes and other information about each title.

Access to articles, recent book, film and theatre reviews from national and international newspapers. Good coverage from mid 1980s to present

The full-text of the Koori Mail, a national fortnightly newspaper that focuses on the Indigenous people of Australia. 1991- present.

References international films and provides bibliographies of particular films.

Cross-searches the two major film studies databases, FIAF: International Film Archive Database via Proquest (1972 - present) and Film Index International

Searches academic information on the internet and may allow access to publications subscribed to by the University of Sydney Library.

JSTOR includes top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources in the humanities.

Searches the combined catalogues of Australian libraries and can also provide access to the British Library Catalogue, Library of Congress Catalogue and OCLC WorldCat.

References scholarly works on Australian literature, literary theory and criticism, linguistics and film studies (some full text).

One of the largest Humanities and Social Sciences databases, also provides citation analysis of authors and journals.