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New and revised subject headings

The first stage of a review of genre headings for fiction and poetry has been completed. Scope notes have been standardised and now include examples of works belonging to each genre. Headings for Oceania, Polynesia and the former Yugoslav countries have also been subject to review.

Headings marked with an asterisk in the following list are existing allowed headings which have been updated. New headings are marked as N. Headings which were previously USE references but are now headings in their own right are marked as A. Previously allowed headings which have become USE references are marked as U. Deleted headings are marked as D.

Not all headings affected by the genre heading review have been included in the following list: for instance, several new example headings and headings with the subdivision History and criticismhave not been included. For full details of these headings, see the SCIS website at http://www.curriculum.edu.au/scis/productinfo/supplists.htm

* Adventure and adventurers
* Adventure stories
N American Samoa
* Animal stories
A Animals – Fiction
N Asperger’s syndrome
* Australian stories
* Autism
* Children as artists
* Choose your own stories
* Computer networks
* Cowhands
* Cowhands – Fiction
* Crime stories
A Diaries – Fiction
* Diary stories
* Dystopian fiction
* edna
* Emotionally disturbed children
* Family sagas
* Fantasy
* Fiction
* Films
Gothic fiction
* Historical fiction
* History
* Horror stories
* Humorous stories
* Literature
A Love – Fiction
* Love stories
* Macedonian literature
A Montenegro
* Mystery and suspense stories
* Native plants
* New Zealand fiction
* New Zealand literature
* New Zealand poetry
* New Zealand stories
N Niue
* Oceania
* Personal development
* Personality disorders
* Plants
* Poetry
* Polynesia
* Polynesians
* Psychology
* Samoa
* School stories
* Science fiction
* Self
A Self-esteem
* Self-perception
A Serbia
D Serbia and Montenegro
* Stories in rhyme
* Supernatural stories
N Tokelau
* Tokelauans
* Utopian fiction
* Verse novels
* War stories
* Westerns
* Wordless stories
* Yugoslav literature
* Yugoslavia