Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
The Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies is a not-for-profit organisation funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). It is a national service based at the University of Tasmania’s Hobart campus. The clearinghouse synthesises a range of resources in the youth studies field to provide material that is useful for policymakers, practitioners and youth work/youth studies students. It supplies information about youth research, policy and practice in the form of research papers, abstracts, news articles, book reviews, peak news and other products that are edited for a multi-disciplinary audience.
ACYS resources include:
- the peer-reviewed journal Youth Studies Australia, which is a highly regarded source of knowledge on issues affecting Australian and New Zealand young people.
- Youth Field Xpress, a free email newsletter about youth research and youth work issues that contains a wide and eclectic range of news stories drawn from both online and print sources.
- the ACYS website, which is an essential compendium of helpful information sources on youth issues
- publications, including a range of books on youth issues.
History of ACYS: With its origins in the early 1980s as the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies Bulletin based at the Australian National University, the clearinghouse moved to the University of Tasmania after a national bidding process in 1984. Following this move, the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies Bulletin and Abstracts was distributed on a subscription basis. In 1989 after a change of staff, the bulletin was redesigned and re-launched as a journal, Youth Studies. A year later the journal's title was amended to its current title, Youth Studies Australia. In 1998, the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies became the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies or ACYS. (Source: Flyer about the clearinghouse published in 1995.)