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OZ.S: The Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45

Christopher Lloyd (chris.lloyd at metz.une.edu.au)

Wed May 17 01:42:06 EDT 2000

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> Periodicals and novels published in Australia during the period 1840-45 are 
> now freely accessible online via the World Wide Web. 
> These works - digitised as part of the ARC funded Australian Cooperative 
> Digitisation Project 1840-45 - provide a record of a seminal period in the 
> development of Australian colonial culture. 
> The project has been a collaborative initiative between the University of 
> Sydney Library, the National Library of Australia and the State Library of 
> New South Wales. The project sought to preserve and provide enhanced 
> access to these scarce works through an integrated method of microfilming 
> and digital conversion. The partners investigated and developed - in 
> conjunction with industry contractors - a production process which would 
> enable this work to be carried out as seamlessly and effectively as 
> possible. The need to address and test production specifications with a 
> goal of generating the highest quality images prolonged the project beyond 
> initial planning dates. More information about the project is available 
> through the Project website at http://www.nla.gov.au/acdp/ 
> Periodical publications and novels are accessible by following the links 
> listed below, or directly through records in Kinetica, the national 
> bibliographic database. Where necessary specific help instructions are 
> available at each site, and feedback can be sent using the facilities 
> provided. 
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> 1) Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 
 
> http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/ 
 
> 54 titles are currently accessible with more to be added in the near 
> future. The project will also be providing searchable indexes and table of 
> contents where they have been published as part of the periodical, and is 
> testing OCR (Optical Character Recognition) conversion of the text of some 
> periodicals as a means of providing a form of keyword access. 
> The titles are provided in PDF (Portable Document Format) to facilitate 
> zooming, browsing, printing and cutting and pasting. Instructions on use 
> of PDF are provided at the site 
> LIST OF TITLES 
> The Adelaide independent and cabinet of amusement. Adelaide; 1841. 
> Arden's Sydney magazine of politics and general literature. Sydney; 1843. 
> The Atlas. Sydney; 1844-[1849?]. 
> The Australasian odd fellows' quarterly magazine. Sydney; 1845. 
> The Australian and New Zealand monthly magazine. London; 1842. 
> The Bee of Australia. Sydney; 1844. 
> The Colonial and Asiatic review. London; 1852-1853. 
> Colonial literary journal and weekly miscellany of useful information. 
> Sydney; 1844-1845. 
> The Colonial magazine and commercial maritime journal [London]; 1840-1842. 
> The Colonial magazine and East India review. London; 1849-1852. 
> The Colonial observer. Sydney; 1841-1844. 
> Colonization circular. London; 1843-1859. 
> Commercial journal and advertiser. Sydney; 1835-1840. 
> Commercial journal and general advertiser. Sydney; 1845. 
> Commercial journal, general advertiser and Odd Fellows' advocate. Sydney; 
> 1845. 
> Cumberland times. Parramatta, N.S.W. ; 1845-[1911?] 
> The Dispatch. Sydney; 1842-1844. 
> The Examiner. Sydney; 1845. 
> Fisher's colonial magazine and commercial maritime journal. London; 
> 1842-1843. 
> Free press and commercial journal. Sydney, N.S.W.; 1841. 
> The Guardian. Sydney, 1844. 
> The Launceston courier. Launceston, Tas. ; 1840-1843. 
> The Melbourne courier. Melbourne; 1845-1846. 
> Melbourne times. Melbourne; 1842-1843. 
> The Melbourne weekly courier. Melbourne; 1844-1845 
> The New South Wales examiner. Sydney; 1842. 
> The Odd Fellows' magazine. Adelaide; 1843. 
> The Omnibus and Sydney spectator. Sydney; 1841-1843. 
> Parramatta chronicle. Parramatta, N.S.W. ; 1843-1845. 
> The Satirist and sporting chronicle. Sydney; 1843. 
> The Shipping gazette and Sydney general trade list. Sydney, 1844. 
> The South Australian colonist, and settlers weekly record of British, 
> foreign and colonial intelligence. London; 
> 1840. 
> The South Australian magazine. Adelaide; 1841-1843. 
> South Australian news. London; 1840-1852. 
> South Australian Odd Fellows' magazine. Adelaide; 1843. 
> The South Briton, or, Tasmanian literary journal. Hobart Town; 1843. 
> The Star. Sydney; 1845-1846. 
> The Star and working man's guardian. Parramatta, N.S.W; 1844-1845. 
> The Sun: and New South Wales independent press. Sydney; 1843. 
> The Swan River news and Western Australian chronicle. London; 1844-1849. 
> Sydney dispatch. 
> Sydney free press. Sydney; 1841-1842. 
> Sydney protestant magazine. Sydney; 1840-1841. 
> The Sydney record. Sydney; 1843-1844. 
> Tasmanian evangelical miscellany. 
> Tasmanian journal of natural science, agriculture, statistics &c. Hobart, 
> Tas.; 1842-1849. 
> Tasmanian literary journal 
> The Teetotal advocate. Launceston, 1843. 
> The Teetotaller and general newspaper. Sydney, 1842. 
> The True catholic. Hobart Town; 1843. 
> The True sun and New South Wales independent press. Sydney; 1843. 
> Van Diemen's Land temperance herald. Launceston, 1845 
> The Voice of Jacob. Sydney; 1842. 
> The Weekly register of politics, facts and general literature. Sydney; 
> 1843-1845. 
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> 2) Novels, 1840-45 
 
> http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/acdp/ 
 
> The four 1840-45 novels provided the genesis of the Australian Text 
> Database at SETIS, the Scholarly Text and Image Service at the University 
> of Sydney Library. Currently this collection includes over 150 fully 
> searchable Australian literary, historical and scientific texts, which are 
> accessible at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/ 
> NOVELS, 1840-45 
> Christie, William Harvey (1808-1873) 
> Love Story /by a Bushman . Sydney : G.W. Evans, 1841. 
> McCombie, Thomas (1819-1869) 
> Adventures of a Colonist, or, Godfrey Arabin the Settler. London : 
> John and Daniel A. Darling, 1845. 
> Rowcroft, Charles (1798-1856) 
> Tales of the Colonies, or, The Adventures of an Emigrant. London : 
> Saunders & Otley, 1843. 
> Vidal, Mary Theresa (1815-1873) 
> Tales for the bush. Sydney : D.L. Welch, 1845. 
> 
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> Ross Coleman 
> Collection Management Librarian 
> University of Sydney Library 
> University of Sydney. NSW 2006 
> Australia. 
> email: r.coleman at library.usyd.edu.au 
> phone: +61 02 9351 3352 
> fax: +61 02 9351 7305 
> Ms. Elizabeth Ho, 
> Director ,The Hawke Centre 
> University of South Australia 
> 
> 08-83020651 
> 08-83020420 - fax 
> 
> Location: 
> Y3-35, City West Campus 
> 
> Postal: GPO BOX 2471 
> Adelaide, S.A.  5001 
> 
> Email: 
> elizabeth.ho at unisa.edu.au 
 
 
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