Homepage and APRIL navigation links
Homepage and APRIL navigation links
The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library project began as an Internet site in 2004, titled ‘Australian Literature Resources’, designed and built as a prototype by John Tranter and sponsored by Australian Literary Management [Link] and actively developed through 2005 and 2006 until it featured information about and/or original writing by some seventy poets. In mid-2006 the Australian Research Council made a large grant available to enable the site to be further developed by a team headed by Professor Elizabeth Webby at the English Department of the University of Sydney and Creagh Cole at the University of Sydney Library, and involving Ross Coleman at the University of Sydney Library, the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) as a Linkage Partner, John Tranter in a part-time consulting role, and postgraduate students and research assistants. After a delay to sort out some complex Intellectual Property issues, the project got under way in May 2007. You can view our current staff list and contact details here. This project is not a printed book, and it has no connection with any publisher. The present site is a draft design only, and will change with time.
The project will focus on the presentation on the Internet of a wide range of original literary material from Australian poets. A secondary focus will be on the presentation of biographical, bibliographical and critical secondary material. As it grows, APRIL will provide a vast number of original texts and helpful background information (including reviews, memoirs, diaries, interviews, and audio and video material) on thousands of Australian poets selected by an advisory committee made up of writers, academic scholars, reviewers, librarians and publishers.
All APRIL material will be made available for free viewing on this site on the Internet. Reading the material in HTML or PDF form on your computer screen — like reading this page, for example — will remain free, but text for downloading and printing will be in the form of secure PDF (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format) files, subject to a fee and controlled by Digital Object Identifier (DOI) technology administered by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). This process is essential to properly reward authors, other content creators and copyright holders for the use of printed copies of their work, and to enable this project to survive and grow.
A Digital Object Identifier [Link] works rather like an electronic barcode, to enable the creator of a work in digital form (such as a story published on an Internet site, for example) to be reimbursed for the use of the material by visitors to that site. The process of collecting and distributing these fees will be similar to the management of photocopying fees in public libraries, which has been administered in Australia by the Copyright Agency Limited since 1974: [Link].
Eventually the project will provide print-on-demand books or collections of texts or anthologies, which should be of particular practical use for teachers and students. A similar project, Classic Australian Works, already provides print-on-demand version of classic Australian books. An initiative of Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), working with writer members, Classic Australian Works is supported by the Australian Society of Authors, the National Library of Australia, and the University of Sydney (Library and University Publishing Service).
At the University of Sydney Professor Margaret Harris and Dr Petra Nolan provided vital guidance and assistance in the project’s early development stages and Professor Robert Dixon and Professor Stephen Garton (Dean of Arts) likewise as the project came close to fruition. Professor Elizabeth Webby, Pam Brown and Philip Mead have offered invaluable editorial advice. The project staff gratefully acknowledge helpful advice and support from the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Agency Limited, the Australian Society of Authors, the National Library of Australia, and the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
APRIL agrees with the general policies of the Australian Society of Authors and the Copyright Agency Limited, and is committed to the transparent negotiation of authors’ and other copyright holders’ rights.
The word APRIL is the registered business name of this project under the Business Names Act of 1962, New South Wales Consumer Protection Agency, NSW Department of Fair Trading. The word APRIL is a registered trademark in the Register of Trade Marks, Commonwealth of Australia.
Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library has received support
from the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding
and advisory body.
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