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Monash University

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.

Institutional Repositories

The Library has an institutional repository that uses the ARROW (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World) repository software for permanently storing academic output from Monash University. The ARROW repository contains the working papers and discussion papers of the Business and Economics Faculty among its collections.

Digital Library Projects

Current Library activity includes:

• The Library catalogue
  http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/

• ARROW Repository
  http://arrow.edu.au

• The Monash ePress, an electronic publisher of books and journals
  http://publications.epress.monash.edu/

• Monash lectures online
  www.mulo.monash.edu.au/