AustLit marks one million records

One of the longest running digital humanities projects in Australia has just passed the million records mark.

The comprehensive database that houses bibliographic information about Australian Literature, AustLit, has recently announced that it has reached a milestone: one million records have now been inputted into its system.

Since its inception in 2001, and in collaboration with the University of Queensland and a team of academics, librarians, indexers and researchers, AustLit has expanded its reach exponentially. On average, over 600 work records are added to the database weekly.

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Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian. She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025). Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy