Society Journals and Publications Held by the ASF.

The Australian Speleological Federation Inc. produces a variety of publications both for internal use by members and for a wider audience, including researchers and historians.

The ASF holds a large collection of journals and publications, many of which are published by organisations affiliated with the ASF, from clubs and societies located all over Australia. The ASF also has an exchange agreement with a number of caving organisations and research organisations both in Australia and overseas. As these are uploaded we will link them below - not all of the issues and clubs have been catalogued yet.

Some of these publications are only available to members of ASF clubs and ASF individual members to view online. Click on the link and it will take you to the ASF membership database to log in (if you don't have a token, use the "Click here to retrieve your login" link to get your token (your token can be reused, so please keep it secure)). You can login via the admin section if you have been set up to do that for your club.

Links to publications:

The following are the society/club journals and ASF periodical publications catalogued so far:

ASF Biennial Conferences
Bermagui Speleological Association (BSA) - 1972-1974
Baptist Caving Association (BCA) - 1967-2002
Campbelltown Caving and Outdoor Group (CCOG) - 1972-1991?
Capital Territory Caving Group (CTCG) - 1970s
Cave Divers Association of Australia (CDAA) - Not an ASF club - ACTIVE
Cave Exploration Group (South Australia) (CEGSA) - ACTIVE
Caving Club of Victoria - 1997-2008
Central Queensland Speleological Society (CQSS) - 1967-2000
Cooranbong Speleological Association (CSA) - 1956-1962?
Endeavour Spelelogical Association (ESA) / Endeavour Caving and Recreational Club (ECRC) - 1973-1980?
Freelance Caving Group (FCG) - Evolved into the Highland Caving Group (HCG)
Illawarra Speleological Society (ISS) - ACTIVE
Highland Caving Group (HCG) - ACTIVE
Launceston Speleo Club (LSC) - 1973-1977?
Macquarie University Union Clubs (MMS, MUSIC, MUCG) - 1967-1998?
Metropolitan Speleological Society (MSS) - ACTIVE
Newcastle Technical and University College Speleological Society (NTUCSS) / University of Newcastle Speleological Society (NUSS) - 1956-1972?
Newcastle Speleological Association (NSA) - 1960-1970?
Newcastle and Hunter Valley Spelelogical Society (NHVSS) - no digital copies available (these are coming) - ACTIVE
Northern Caverneers and Tasmanian Caverneering Club Northern Branch (TCC-NB) Publications - ACTIVE
NSW Institute of Technology and University of Technology Sydney Clubs (NSWITSS, UTSSS) - 1989-2017
Peninsula Speleological Group (PSG) - 1972-1974?
Southern Caving Society (SCS) - merged with TCC and TCKRG to from STC
Southern Tasmanian Caverneers (STC) - ACTIVE
St. George Area Caving Team - 1973-1980?
Sydney University Speleological Society (SUSS) - ACTIVE
Tasmanian Caverneering Club (TCC) - merged with SCS and TCKRG to from STC
Top End Speleological Society (TESS) - 1983-1994
Univeristy of New England Mountaineering Club (UNEMC) and University of New England Speleological Society (UNESS) - 1967-1979?
University of New South Wales Speleological Society (UNSWSS) - 1965-2000
University of Queensland (UQSS) - 1960-1990

 

For more information about Helictite - the scientific journal of the ASF - also see the Helictite Home Page.

For Caves Australia (not yet catalogued), see the Caves Australia Home Page for the most recent issues and the Caves Australia Archive for back issues.

The ASF produces an internal newsletter called "The Cave Cricket" - formerly known as ESpeleo (The Library holds ESpeleo back to 2007). The new Cave Cricket has been catalogued and can be accessed here.

Other ASF publications can be found by searching the archive collection of the catalogue.

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