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-launched as a journal, Youth Studies.
In the 2014 Australian federal budget, the organisation lost its funding in 2014 and finally closed its doors in 2015.
ACYS also supplied information about youth research, policy and practice in the form of news articles, book reviews, and other products for its multi-disciplinary audience.
ACYS resources included: Youth Studies Australia became an online full-text journal in the late 2000s, and its archives are available through the Informit database.