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Australian Literary and Historical Texts at SETIS

About The Project

SETIS is the Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library. The Australian texts listed here have been encoded according to the Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI-2) and are converted to HTML as users search or retrieve sections of the texts.

This database is in development and changes weekly.

Acknowledgements

The following institutions have provided texts and support for the advancement of this project:

  • Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45
  • Macquarie Dictionary Ozcorp Database
  • Scholarly Editions Centre at the Australian Defence Forces Academy, Canberra.
  • State Library of New South Wales
  • Vicnet Ozlit Web Site at the Victorian State Library
  • Scholars Centre, University of Western Australia
  • AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature

    In addition, a number of individuals have contributed important texts to the collection:

  • Alan Light (Vicnet and Project Gutenberg)
  • Chris Floyd (WA)

    Related Sites

    This site is primarily a collection of primary source texts and associated images. See the Vicnet Australian Literature site for a listing of related Australian literature sites.

    Copyright Matters

    These Electronic Editions © University of Sydney Library.

    These texts have been created and are made available for private research and study purposes.

    We are keenly aware of issues relating to authors' rights and have made every effort to ensure that the print publications upon which these files have been based are free of copyright. If you have information which suggests otherwise, do not hesitate to let us know.

    Many of the texts in the SETIS collections are free of copyright in Australia, but are still in copyright in other parts of the world. If you are consulting these texts outside Australia do not download texts that may still be in copyright in your country.

    Conditions of Use

    By their use of these texts, users agree to follow our conditions of use:

  • The texts and images may not be used for any commercial purpose without permission from the University of Sydney Library.
  • The texts are not to be mounted on another server for public or commercial access without permission. Links may, of course, be made from other sites to this site, subject to our conditions of use. The reason for this stipulation is simply that these texts are under constant revision and it is in everyone's interest that we know what version of the texts are being made available. If improvements are made to any of the texts we would appreciate a copy being lodged with us for renewal of the database.

    Disclaimer

    Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the text files included within the database of Australian Literature. Please let us know of any evident discrepancies.

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