The Bibliography of Australian Literature Project has been a long term project of the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University and The University Of Queensland whose former Vice Chancellor, Professor John Hay, is the co-General Editor of the work. The Bibliography of Australian Literature, continues a long tradition of bibliographical scholarship in Australia. The fourth and final volume of the Bibliography was published in November 2008 and all four volumes can be purchased from UQP using this Order Form.

The Bibliography of Australian Literature covers book-length publications by eligible authors of creative writing.

The Bibliography of Australian Literature, is the result of more than 15 years of collaborative research into the publication history of creative writing by Australian authors.

Beginning in 1990, the Bibliography project had the ambitiously broad and deceptively simple goal of listing all separately published works of creative literature by Australian authors since 1788. The precursor to the Bibliography was the production and publication of the two volume List of Australian Writers 1788-1992 which collated biographical and genre details on all eligible Australian authors (approximately 9,500) and formed the basis of the fuller listing of works.

In 1997 the project grew to incorporate research partnerships with Flinders University, Deakin University, the University of Western Australia and the University of Queensland bringing together, under a project called Australia's Literary Heritage, regional and genre-specific work then being undertaken. All author details and bibliographic details were stored in specially designed linked databases at Monash University and have been now been migrated to AustLit.

The General Editors of The Bibliography of Australian Literature are John Arnold and John Hay, who are also members of AustLit's Advisory Board . Associate Editors are Kerry Kilner and Terence O'Neill. The Bibliography has been compiled by members of the AustLit team. It has been a truly collaborative project spanning many years and many team members.

The Bibliography has been compiled using a wide variety of bibliographic and biographical sources. Among the works consulted were all previously published bibliographies of Australian literature, the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Who's Whos, and other biographical reference works, companions to literature, histories of publishing in Australia, library catalogues, the the National Bibliographic Database via LibrariesAustralia, manuscript collections at the National Library, the Mitchell Library at the State Library of NSW, The Fryer Memorial Library at the University of Queensland which has given unfettered access to it excellent collection of Australiana, the catalogues of various European, British and United States national and regional libraries and many other individual works. A full listing of the sources can be found in each volume of The Bibliography of Australian Literature.

Many individuals, groups and organisations assisted in the research, production and publication of The Bibliography. A full list of the hundreds who deserve acknowledgement is available in the published work. However, we particularly thank the Australian Research Council and our university partners:

• University of Queensland
• Monash University
• UNSW@ADFA
• Flinders University
• University of Western Australia, and
• Deakin University

for the ongoing financial support that enabled the establishment of this major research project and its central place in AustLit's service to the scholarly community.

Please email info-austlit@austlit.edu.au to purchase all volumes of The Bibliography or use the order form.