led to the inclusion of burlesque theatre works. The Colonial Newspapers and Magazines Project added advertisements, and also the works of international authors The coverage of scriptwriters in the film and television industry was extended in 2010, together with production history of associated works. Use in research AustLit Research Communities support detailed explorations of particular aspects of Australia's literary culture. Researchers can work within AustLit to create datasets around a specific field. These projects range across book, magazine and publishing histories, subject specific surveys of regionally-based publishing and thematically-based subsets. Research into the history of Australian popular and pulp fiction is supported alongside research into theatre history, drama and multicultural writers. AustLit has become a key information resource for the study of Australian literature and related fields. Because of its status as the most comprehensive record of a nation's publishing history, AustLit has become an important source of data for analysing Australian literary history. Usage AustLit subscriber include research and educational institutions, and libraries, which allow home access for their member communities and subscribers. Limited guest usage is allowed, and the general public can access five pages per day. Subscribers can electronically export data from AustLit by subscribers. The US Library of Congress has archived snapshots of the AustLit website since 2009 as part of its Web Archive collection. AustLit's copyright policy is that it is free for use under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Australia. References Further reading External links Australian literature Literature databases Online databases Databases in Australia 2000 establishments in Australia