National Library of Australia - Gateways

ISSN ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 65 | October 2003


Recent Australian Publications Online

Have you ever wanted to find or keep up with newly-published Australian material in your subject area? If so the Recent Australian Publications (RAP) service from the National Library will provide an essential tool to meet your needs.

Peter Cobcroft (Kinetica Customer Service Branch, NLA) shows RAP to Petherick Room Readers Lado Shay (left) and Christine Fernon
Peter Cobcroft (Kinetica Customer Service Branch, NLA) shows RAP to Petherick Room Readers Lado Shay (left) and Christine Fernon

The Library has redeveloped the RAP service to produce monthly easy-to-use files of new Australian publications, including printed materials such as books, journals, maps, music, and newspapers; as well as multimedia material and electronic resources. RAP is published online each month, and files for 2003 are available now at <www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/rap.html>.

Over 42 000 new Australian titles were listed in RAP in the previous 12 months demonstrating the rich range of resources available through this service. RAP includes everything published in Australia as well as works published overseas by Australian authors or about Australia. For finding material on topics from cooking to nanotechnology RAP will meet your needs. You can browse each monthly file by subject or title.  

Roxanne Missingham, Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing commented, ‘Australian libraries have a comprehensive and growing collection of resources. The Recent Australian Publications service draws on these resources to let Australians easily find new material about their country and culture; material they can then obtain through their local library or order from Australian publishers.’

The service obtains records from the Australian National Bibliographic Database, a co-operative catalogue of Australian library collections, and makes this information accessible in an easy-to-read form. Using the Internet Australians can now access this valuable service anywhere.

If you have any comments or suggestions for further improvement to the RAP service please email us at kinetica@nla.gov.au

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