Located at Curtin University, the api network is one of the best starting-points
for any foray into Australian cultural and literary studies on the web.
The website presents new books, offers free downloadable reviews, allows
access to all major academic journals with Australian content, and informs
about conferences in the field of Australian studies.
The Australian Studies network sees itself as "central point of contact"
for all those involved in Australian studies centers, associations, programs
etc.
Their website has links to Australian Studies groups all over the world
and is well worth a visit.
The Menzies Centre sees itself as an Australian cultural link
in Britain. The Center organizes public lectures, conferences, seminars,
briefings and literary readings about Australian topics.
The website features information on their activities, scholarships,
publications etc.
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The Australian Studies Centre Barcelona wants to "promote and facilitate
exchange; promote research and interdisciplinarity in the field of Australian
studies; provide information on activities in Catalunya and abroad; provide
a website."
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The Australian Studies Centre was set up in the Faculty of Arts of University
College Dublin in 1996.
The website mainly presents the Centre's program and its members.
Situated at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, the Australian Studies
Centre (ASC) wants to disseminate "knowledge on Australia in Thailand."
The website is a gateway for Thailand's Australian Studies.
Gateway to Australian Studies in Japan.
Their websites require browsers with Asian fonts.
Listing of Australian Studies Centres in China with descriptions of
their programs.
This website also requires browsers with Asian fonts.
Located in Berlin Mitte, the Australien Zentrum seeks to promote
Australian-German relations and to showcase Australian knowledge, expertise
and dynamism in academic, cultural and policy fields.The website offers
an overview over the centre's conferences, publications.
Website of Australian Studies in Lampeter, Wales. Their website introduces
the visitors to Australian studies courses at the University of Wales,
symposia organized by the Centre, as well as an extensive collection of
links and resources to Australian Studies.
The Centre for Australian Studies, the first in Canada, was established
at the University of British Columbia in 1997.
The website presents the centre's activities, mainly the organization
of seminar, conferences, and Canadian-Australian academic exchanges.
Academic Associations
The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and comprises
around 500 members, including universities, libraries and other affiliates.
The website informs about the AHA's conferencesd and its publications.
Located at the the University of Texas, Austin, the ANZSANA aims at
a strengthening of Australian-American ties.
The website mainly provides information about the organization's annual
conferences.
"The Association for the Study of Australian Literature promotes the
study, discussion and creation of Australian writing." On their website,
ASAL provide information about their conferences, publications, and offers
a directory of postgraduate research projects.
The British Australian Studies Association was established in 1982 and
seeks to "further the exchange of information and assistance amongst its
membership, and to promote work and interest in all aspects of Australian
experience and endeavour."
Their website introduces the BASA organization.
The objective of the mainly is to to "promote and coordinate the teaching,
study and research relating to cultural studies in Australia."
Their website features information about their conferences, about the
affiliated Continuum Journal, as well as as extensive collection of links
to organizations and journals in the field of cultural studies.
Founded in 1989, the European Association for Studies on Australia
"seeks
to promote the teaching of and research in Australian Studies at European
tertiary institutions."
The website informs about the association's activities, resources,
publications, conferences, and about visiting experts.
The Gesellschaft für Australienstudien is an interdisciplinary
academic association which organizes biennial conferences, publishes collections
of scholarly articles, and awards a prize to the year's best scholarly
work on Australia.
Their website offers an overview over publications, conferences, the
organization's members and its objectives.
InASA has one of the most extensive web-gateways to all fields
of interest within Australian Studies. Founded in 1995, InASA seeks to
"promote links between the Australian and international Australian studies
communities."
The website is a very useful site for anyone researching topics within
Australian Studies. There is a section on the organization's very own newsletter-journal
Crossings
(online as etext). Their website also hosts the following affiliates: JAS;
the Australian Studies International Database; the Australian Studies Centre
at the University of Queensland.
Academic Journals
Antipodes was established in 1987 by the AAALS (American
Association of Australian Literary Studies). Since then, the journal
has become widely respected for its extensive and distinctive coverage
of Australian literature and culture--and a valuable source for those interested
in the antipodes.
The Antipodes-website introduces the journal and features a
number of sample articles from past issues.
The ANZSC was published from 1989 to 1994 at the University of
Western Ontario in Canada. edited by Thomas E. Tausky.
The website features a searchable full-text archive of all issues of
the ANZSC!
Australian Book Review is a monthly journal of essays and reviews
of new Australian fiction, poetry and literature. It is one of the established
journals in Australian literary and cultural studies and was first
published in 1961.
The website features the contents of past issues as well as a good
deal of reviews as full-texts online.
Australian Humanities Review is an interdisciplinary electronic
journal with a searchable database of past issues. It is a peer-reviewed
and published quarterly.
Australian Literary Studies (ALS) is one of the most prestigious
academic journals in Australian literary criticism. It publishes critical
essays and reviews in the field.
The volumes of the past couple of years are available as full-text
versions at www.northernlight.com
The new series of HEAT magazine is a literary magazine "renowned
for its publication of creative and interpretive writing by Australian
and overseas authors."
Their website features a table of contents of the current issue, subscription
and contribution information, as well as an overview over back issues and
their contents. .
JAS Review of Books is an online monthly published in association
with the Journal of Australian Studies. It is produced by the Australian
Studies Centre at Curtin University of Technology in association with the
Australian Public Intellectual Network www.api-network.com.
The Journal of Australian Studies (JAS) is a fully refereed international
quarterly published by the Australian Studies Centre at Curtin University
of Technology in association with the Australian Public Intellectual
Network www.api-network.com and University of Queensland Press.
Founded in 1940, Meanjin is one of the most time-honoured journals
on Australian literature around. It is published quarterly and has a long
tradition of engaging with issues like "migrant writing, television, suburbia,
popular music, the Anzac tradition, and Australia's 'cultural cringe.'"
The website has a table of contents of the current issue and offers
the same service for back issues since 1996.
Southerly is Australia's oldest literary magazine. First published
in 1939, it publishes fiction, poetry and criticism.
The website features information on the current issue as well as subscription
and contribution guidelines.
Westerly is published annually at the Centre for Studies in Australian
Literature in the English Department of The University of Western Australia
and as first published in 1956.
On the website one can browse and search the contents pages from issue
one onwards.
Australian
Literature Online
The National Library of Australia offers one of the most extensive collections
of links to websites in the field of Australian Studies available on the
web.
The Ozlit webpages are an excellent starting-point for research in Australian
literature. They have more than 500 pages of Australian Literary information
as well as more than 1100 entries in a fully searchable Database.
Perry Middlemiss's gateway to Australian literature offers websites
dedicated to dozens of Australia's most renown writers. Other sections
of the gateway are on literary prizes, and Australian poems.
The Australian branch of the Project Gutenberg has put more than
6,000 etexts online. Classics like Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson, Rolf Boldrewood
etc. are mongst them. An indispensible resource for anyone doing research
in the field of Australian literature.
Booksellers
The relaunched website of the Australian Book Web aims to be
itself as "the most useful Australian book resource there is."
The website features a new section all around Australian book market,
links to booksellers, publishers etc.
Offers millions of out-of-print copies of Australian books.