1 – Adelaide University Electronic Texts Collection

This growing collection of e-texts – currently more than 700 – includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine.

2 – ANU E-Print Repository

From the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT (Australian Capital Territory). Holding over 2,460 items as of May 2005. Material from 1987 on is included. User registration (there is no charge) is required for some parts of the site. Subject Categories included: Arts, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biological Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Electronic Publishing, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Law, Medicine, Physical Sciences & Mathematics and Social Sciences.

3 – Australian e-Humanities Gateway

Australian e-Humanities Gateway is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities Network, a group funded by the Australian Research Council. The network includes representatives from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle. A portal for digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia.

4 – Curtin University of Technology

Curtin University of Technology Institutional Repository espace@Curtin provides access to research produced by Curtin University of Technology staff and postgraduate students. Around 260 items were available as at May 2005 covering material from 1980 onwards.

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5 – ePrints Queensland University of Technology

An institutional archive of research papers produced at Queensland University of Technology by QUT staff and postgraduate students. Items now deposited span from 1984 to date, and this fast-growing new collection already offers no less than 967 of them (in May 2005).

6 – eprints University of Melbourne

The embryonic University of Melbourne eprint collection. The oldest item dates back to 1945. In order to access some areas of the archive, you’ll need a user registration (no charge).

7 – eprints @ University of Queensland

The University of Queensland’s Digital Repository. Covers material created since 1983, although most dates from 1998 on. Includes e-books, e-chapters, online journals, various articles, working papers, conference papers and proceedings, posters, miscellaneous research output, and pre-publication (draft) material. OAI-compliant, the repository includes research output of UQ academic staff and postgraduate students, both before and after peer-reviewed publication. Formats used are HTML, ASCII text, PDF & Postscript.

8 – Monash University ePrint Repository

The Monash University ePrint Repository showcases and archives quality research output of Monash University staff. As of May 2005 it held 122 e-prints covering the period 1996-2004.

9 – Project Gutenberg of Australia

Project Gutenberg of Australia produces books in electronic form and makes them freely available to the public in accordance with Australian copyright law. NB: Under Australian copyright law, literary, dramatic, & musical work published, performed, communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an author’s lifetime are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the author’s death. After this time they enter into the public domain. Some e-books available here may still be under copyright in the United States (where local laws have several times extended copyright to levels not accepted within Australian jurisdiction). Such works are therefore not available from the US site of Project Gutenberg.

Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright. So you’ll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.

10 – SETIS

The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library. Regarded as the leading University digital collection in Australia. Includes also the University of Sydney digital theses collection (currently around two hundred theses available). NB: While you may access many texts from the Web, a large number are commercially licensed and available only to users at the University of Sydney.

11 – UTasER

The University of Tasmania ePrint Repository. Research materials covering as far back as 1968 have now been deposited here. By May 2005 there were 126 of them.