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Article: Setting the record straight: bibliography and Australian literature.
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- Australian Literary Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The AustLit Gateway is the result of a collaboration between eight Australian universities and the National Library of Australia. It began in 1999 'when a group of Australian universities, which had developed general and specialist Australian literature databases over the previous decade, decided to pool this knowledge into a single web-based information service' (AustLit Homepage). The project was a response to a perceived need for a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of the national literature that positioned itself to exploit advances in electronic technology and the flexibility of the online environment. This paper has no intention of tracing the history of ...