The Australian National Corpus - AusNC - is a discovery service that collates and provides access to various examples of Australian English Text. Text is sourced from published and unpublished works, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials. The mission of AusNC is to "serve as a trusted service to collect, store, and provide access to a wide range of samples of Australian language for use in academic research."

Supported by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) and the Australian Access Federation (AAF), AusNC provides a single sign-on service via a user's institutional login credentials. AusNC incorporates a number of collections from sources such as Australian Radio Talkback, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource and the International Corpus of English.

Though still in development AusNC provides core functions to users including:

• the ability to search across collections
• the ability to learn about contributed collections and their custodians
• faceted search and query, word frequency and concordance
• the ability to view processed text with annotations, where available

Two key features are protected access to content mediated by the AAF, and secure storage provided by Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) Data Fabric Service.

Read more in the most recent ANDS Newsletter, or login to AusNC today at https://www.ausnc.org.au/.