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The article presents information about a new feature on the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) web site, and identifies various worldwide family research and family policy resources on the Internet. AIFS sminar papers are available on www.aifs.org.au/institute/seminars/seminarpapers.html. The following papers presented as part of the Australian Institute of Family Studies Seminar series are now available. It is planned to provide as many papers as possible to assist inquirers from interstate and for those unable to attend these Institute seminars. The 1999-2000 AIFS annual report is available on www.aifs.org.au/institute/pubs/annualreports/ar00.html. The Annual Report presents a comprehensive outline of the institute's research and other activities for the year. Youth Suicide Prevention Bulletin no. 4 October 2000 is available on www.aifs.org.au/ysp/pubs/bulletin4.html. The Bulletin offers news about government initiatives, suicide prevention projects, research findings, reviews and research in progress.

The article presents some features on the Australian Institute of Family Studies Web site, and identifies various worldwide family research and family policy resources on the Internet. The Australian Institute of Family Studies Seventh National Conference--Family futures: Issues in research and policy--has featured in "What's new" on the Institute's Web site in the last few months, as well as recent Institute publications and other new pages. The Institute's biennial conference provides an opportunity for presenters and participants to hear about the latest research and current issues in family studies in Australia. For those unable to attend and for participants who would like copies of papers, they can get them on the Institute's Web site. A non-exclusive licence from the author as copyright owner is required to allow papers on the Web site to be used for personal and educational purposes. There are two conference sites: In response to the many inquiries the Institute's reference service receives, a new links page has been developed to highlight Web resources on Australian demographic statistics and trends.

This article presents information on features of Web sites of the Australian Institute of Family Studies on the family. The Institute's Annual Report 1998-99 and a number of new Institute papers can now be accessed from the Publications page at: www.aifs.org.au/institute/pubs/pubsmenu.html. The Institute has recently established two email discussion forums to support discussion and networking in the fields of child abuse prevention and marriage and relationship education, and an Institute announcements list. Childprotect aims to promote the exchange of information and ideas between Australasian and other professionals working in the field of child abuse prevention and child protection, including child protection workers, other health and welfare service providers, people working in the criminal justice system, in education and training or in policy and service planning, researchers and information providers. Marriage and Relationship Education aims to establish a network of marriage and relationship education researchers and practitioners, and to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to the research, practice and further development of marriage and relationship education in Australia. Aifs-alert has been set up as a means of keeping people up to date with Institute activities and new developments on the Web site.

This article focuses on the Australian Institute of Family Studies' Web site. The Web site provides Institute research, information projects and publications, and access to Institute databases and resource collections. A feature of the Institute's Web site for the past two months has been the Institute's conference, "Changing Families, Challenging Futures," held in Melbourne, Victoria in November 1998. The Institute's Web site offers a full listing of Institute publications with descriptions, prices and information for ordering print copies. A growing collection of papers is also directly available from the Web site. Users should select "Publications" and click on "Current Publications," to find works arranged in subject groupings and also a list of titles available in full text. Child protection and youth suicide prevention are the foci of two specialist information projects hosted by the Institute. To provide access to the current literature in these subject areas a series of regularly updated bibliographies has been compiled.