Data for the most recent 5 years is only available to CAUL and CONZUL members. Summary data and guidelines for data requests by external users are at
https://www.caul.edu.au/programs-projects/statistics/statistical-overview-australian-and-new-zealand-university-libraries
The CAUL statistics include data on collections, staffing, expenditures, library services, and library and university characteristics for the Australian and New Zealand university libraries.
This site will allow you to:- review the library data collected by CAUL
- generate rankings of institutions by selected criteria
- create graphs from the data
- generate summary statistics for all libraries
- download the data by year in spreadsheet format
In an online poll among CAUL and CONZUL Members an overwhelming majority (81%) voted to lift the embargo on open access to the most recent years of CAUL Statistics.
The embargo was lifted on the 1 September 2019 meaning the CAUL Statistics platform is open access and the Pre-2018 CAUL Statistics platform no longer restricts public access to the five most recent years’ data.
About the CAUL Statistics
CAUL Statistics have been collected since 1953. Data collection moved from printed forms to Excel spreadsheets in 1996, and the CAUL Statistics website http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/caul-statistics was established in 1997.
CAVAL http://www.caval.edu.au has managed the collection of these statistics since 1992.
This site was launched in February 2005. This followed a survey of CAUL members in 2003 which showed strong support for an online statistics website. A pilot site was evaluated in 2004 and this was followed by the formal specification, development and implementation of this service for CAUL.
A printable version of the statistic groups currently in use and their individual statistic definitions is available in HTML format or PDF format.
A considerable amount of change to the statistical data elements occurred in the 2018 collection. As a result any data prior to 2018 has been moved to https://statistics.caul.edu.au/pre2018/
A full list of additions and changed elements are available at: Data Elements
A complete list of all elements from 1994 to 2020 is available in PDF format.
A mouseover function is available from all results display screens. Hold the cursor over a variable name and the current definition will be displayed.
CAUL Statistics 2020
The collection of the 2020 data has been completed, and is now available for benchmarking from this site.
For more information on the data made available here or for assistance in interpreting the current data or in ordering earlier data, contact support team (stats.caul@caval.edu.au) at CAVAL.