Australian Studies Resources

Welcome to the Australian Studies Resources page at the University of Sydney Library's Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS).

SETIS is a creator of digital editions of Australian literary and historical texts and hosts a number of other Australian Studies Resources.

The project depends upon external funding sources, either through grants or private sponsorship of individual works.

The texts are keyed to a high level of accuracy and encoded in accordance with the Guidelines established for the markup of humanities source texts by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). SETIS is a member of the TEI Consortium and arranges regular training sessions for the use of TEI in preparing digital editions of source texts.

SETIS is keen to establish further cooperative relations with other institutions involved in digital conversion projects and to encourage further involvement by interested sponsors.

Full Text and Image Collections

  • Australian Literary and Historical Texts - the main searchable collection
  • Australian Classic Works - contemporary Authors on demand at Sydney University Press
  • Australian Federation Full Text Database - the national debates and auxiliary writings of the 1890's
  • Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45: Novels - literary emergence in the 1840's
  • Australian Poets: Brennan--Harford--Slessor - 3 major 20th C poets introduced by John Tranter
  • Classic Texts in Australian Taxation Law - R.W. Parsons seminal work and other texts
  • Joseph Henry Maiden Botanical Texts - pioneering botanical texts and images
  • Professor John Anderson Lectures Notes and Other Writings - manuscripts from the Archives
  • Journals of Inland Exploration - major encounters with the new geography
  • First Fleet and Early Settlement - manuscripts and published journals of the First Fleet
  • Journal Indexes

  • Australian Key Journals: Periodicals Contents Index