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

University of Tasmania

The University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...

’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
  Youth Studies Australia
  Youth Studies Australia is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies – also known as ACYS – based at the University of Tasmania. The journal is published quarterly, in hard copy and online in full text for subscribers...
  
  , 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

Australian National University

The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

, 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-launced as a journal, Youth Studies. A year later the journal's title was amended to its current title, Youth Studies Australia

Youth Studies Australia

Youth Studies Australia is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies – also known as ACYS – based at the University of Tasmania. The journal is published quarterly, in hard copy and online in full text for subscribers...

. 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.)