Australia’s largest university, Monash has over 54,000 students at 6 Australian and two international campuses. The University began operation in 1961, and now has ten faculties: Business and Economics, Art and Design, Arts, Information Technology, Law, Education, Medicine, Pharmacy, Engineering, and Science.

Monash University Library services students in Australia through eight branch libraries, including a dedicated Law library and the Hargrave Andrew science, engineering and medical library. The Library also provides support and assistance to the Monash libraries at the university’s South African and Malaysian campuses.

Collections
The library collection comprises over 3 million items, including almost 2 million books ; 8,744 current print journal titles, 359,000 microforms; and 124,500 non-book items (such as CD-ROMs, maps etc). One of Australia’s largest collections of electronic resources include 240,000 e-books, 21,709 e-journals and 750 networked databases.

Monash University Library holds an extensive collection on economics, including comprehensive collections of Australian economics statistics, and Australian government publications. Information on the library’s economics holdings can be found here.