Arts

American Book Prices Current on CD ROM contains two databases: Autographs and Manuscripts and Books (including broadsides, charts and maps). The databases represent the auction sales reported by American Book Prices Current.

ARTbibliographies Modern is a leading bibliography for the study of modern art, including photography, from the late nineteenth century to the present. References are given to journal articles, books, catalogues, dissertations and exhibition reviews covering famous and lesser-known artists, movements and trends in modern art.

An index to over two thousand periodicals on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and the sciences. Many of the articles are available in full text. It is produced in the USA.

Academic Search Premier is an academic multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, offering information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

This service indexes and selectively abstracts literature on the history of the USA and Canada published from 1954 to the present. All historical periods of American history are covered. Like its sister database, Historical Abstracts, the America: History and Life service covers over 2,000 key historical journals and general journals in social sciences and humanities from many countries

This site provides a searchable database of images, many of them photographic, from the Library of Congress.

A list of valuers approved to participate in the Cultural Gifts Program, which encourages gifts of significant cultural items to public institutions by offering donors a tax deduction. The Federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts administers the program with the advice of the Committee on Taxation Incentives for the Arts.

An index to leading art journals from around the world.

This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles from English language periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. The database also indexes reproductions of works of art periodicals. Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture, films, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, and textiles.

Full text coverage for selected periodicals begins in 1997.

AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature.

Art News Australia is a comprehensive collection of gallery links and other arts resources. These include: gallery review databases presented by state or territory, interactive gallery maps based on Aboriginal representations of the land, artist's sites and arts media contact databases.

Art Retrospective Index 1929-1984 is an important online resource for research in the fields of fine arts, architecture, the decorative arts and related disciplines and complements and extends the coverage provided by the Library’s existing subscription to Art Full Text (1984 onwards).

The Artcyclopedia is primarily an index to where paintings, sculptures and other great works of fine art can be viewed online, at hundreds of art museum sites and online archives worldwide. Links are classified by artist, and where possible by categories such as movement (for example, impressionism, cubism), medium (for example, photography, painting), subject matter (for example, landscapes, still life), and by nationality. The site also includes a comprehensive list of art museum sites worldwide, and a guide to visual search engines on the Internet.

The NSW Government offers financial assistance for arts and cultural activities in NSW through Arts NSW which is the NSW Government’s arts policy and funding body. Assistance includes: (1) the 2010 Arts Funding Program; (2) Fellowships and Scholarships; (4) Residencies; and (4) Awards.

Federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts links to a variety of arts organisations.

AustArt is an index of Australian art journals held in the College of Fine Arts Library, the University of New South Wales. Coverage is from 1987 to the present. This version of AustArt is temporary. The aim is to provide interim access to the AustArt data whilst a more user friendly version is under development.

This site provides information on the various grants that are available, how to apply for them and links to various arts organisations.

The largest and most extensive database of Australian & New Zealand paintings sold at auction since 1973, including sale records from over 50 auction houses and artist's biographies.

The Australian Art Sales Digest contains past auction results of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and offered for sale in both countries of last 35 years.

The data covers over 1,500 auction sales from over 50 auction houses dated back to the early 1970s.

Australian Heritage Bibliography ( AHB ), formerly HERA, produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.

A database of more than 20 000 historic, natural and Indigenous places in the Register of the National Estate, the National Heritage List, the Commonwealth Heritage List, the World Heritage List, and places under consideration for any one of these lists. Information includes a place's values, its legal status, its significance, physical condition, history and photographs if available.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. Australian Public Affairs - Full Text is based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia and published by RMIT Publishing.

Of the 320,000+ records indexed from 2,000+ journals in APAIS, approximately half are derived from 223+ comprehensively indexed journals. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.

Images and information about prints and printmaking, posters, and book arts from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region including Nuie, Samoa, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands.

This database is an important resource for research on architecture and design, covering a wide range of international scholarly and popular journals including the publications of professional associations and the major serial publications of Europe, Asia, America and Australia. Coverage is from 1934 to the present with selective indexing of earlier publications, such as the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects back to 1865.

BHI Plus indexes articles from over 300 humanities journals and British newspapers. Subjects covered include architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, current affairs, education, economics, environment, ethics, film, genealogy, history, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion and theatre.

Biography Resource Centre is a comprehensive biographical database containing nearly 415,000 brief biographies of more than 320,000 people gathered from over 780 volumes from 120 reference sources published by Gale. In addition it includes the full text of articles from over 280 periodicals.

This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts current English language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults published or distributed in the United States or Canada. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain although at least one review must be from a periodical published in the United States or Canada. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in the law and sciences are excluded.

This site is a public access gateway to Australian cultural organisations, resources, activities and events. It is also an exchange centre for resources, ideas and information where cultural workers and organisations can communicate with each other to improve and develop their use of online services.

DAAO provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and links to images databases.

The DAAO’s foundation biographies come from:

- The dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr

- Heritage: The national women's art book, edited by Joan Kerr

- Aboriginal artists of the western desert: a biographical dictionary, by Vivien Johnson

- and biographies from collecting institutions and fine arts academics.

Born digital biographies are now being added by:

- The Storylines Project, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

- National Gallery of Australia

- Queensland Art Gallery

- commercial galleries

- academics and postgraduate researchers

- artists and art lovers.

EEBO is an ongoing project of full texts of publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473-1700.

Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

English Bibliography 1901-1945 contains over a million records of books and serials published in English throughout the world between 1901 and the end of World War II. Works covered include classical and modern literature, academic works, conference papers, legal literature, text books and periodicals. MARC data format is used for all entries.

Order archival quality prints of the Age, Sydney Morning Herald or Sun Herald newspaper front pages. Call 1300 136 466 to order pages before 1945.

Fashion-era contains hundreds of content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History.There is an extensive site map/index and an online forum.This costume history site is owned, designed, written and developed by Pauline Weston Thomas and Guy Thomas.

Film Indexes Online brings together Film Index International and the AFI Catalog. Film Index International gives full international coverage of films and film personalities from over 170 countries. All eras of film-making are included, from the early silent movies onwards. It is based on the British Film Institute’s Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT) database. The AFI Catalog, from the American Film Institute, offers a detailed view of American feature films from 1893-1955 and 1961-1970. Full production and cast information as well as extensive plot summaries and notes are included.

This site provides a searchable database of images of more than 82 000 objects from the collections of the fine arts museums of San Francisco.

An online gallery of 629 drawings and watercolours by artists of the First Fleet in the collections of Library of the Natural History Museum, London. The works are attributed to George Raper, Thomas Watling, and the artist known as the Port Jackson Painter.

Website for people to store, search, sort and share photos. Individuals can now contribute to PictureAustralia - a web service which provides a single point of access to digitised images from many of Australia's leading cultural institutions. You may now load photos into PictureAustralia's two groups on FlickR: PictureAustralia: Australia Day and PictureAustralia: People, places and Events.

This bibliographic database indexes articles from 400 English language periodicals covering a wide range of disciplines in the humanities. Periodicals covered include some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser known but important specialized magazines. Sources include interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, reviews, and original works of fiction, drama, and poetry.

Full text coverage from selected journals begins in 1995.

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Index 1907-1984 is an important online resource for research in the humanities and social sciences and complements and extends the coverage provided by the Library’s existing subscriptions to Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text (from 1984 and 1983 onwards respectively).

This site provides a guide to caring for and restoring old houses and includes a directory covering Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and South Africa. The site also includes a FAQ section, lists of books, essays on various topics such as paint removal and joinery, and a research directory.

An index to reproductions of Australian artworks in books and exhibition catalogues.

Informit is the leading provider of online access to indexes and full text databases of Australasian scholarly research. A product of RMIT Publishing, databases can be divided into the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

IIMP provides indexing and abstracts for articles from the most important music periodicals. IIMP Full Text includes the full text of articles across a range of musical subjects from both scholarly and popular music journals.

Updated annually, this online Australian dictionary includes the Macquarie Thesaurus online

MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, etc.

It also contains full text for reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags.

Pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand's archives, galleries, libraries and museums.

The state heritage register online database lists items of particular significance to the state. It includes items subject to an Interim Heritage Order under the NSW Heritage Act.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 300,000 images digitised from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

The British Library's largest digitisation project provides virtual exhibitions and themed tours of its collections.

Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms with 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.

Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.

Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.

This important indexing service provides global coverage of public affairs and world issues, including references to sources from more than 120 countries in English, French, German, and other languages. The service indexes more than 1,200 journals and 8,000 monographs each year. PAIS also identifies relevant web sites of which there are now around 4,300 included.

Historical information on artist's pigments and the history of making paint from 100,000BC to the present. Includes definitions that clarify the differences between paint, ink, and other artists materials, and a directory of where artists and conservators can find obsolete and historic materials. Also includes information on how to make paint and related safety data.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index) is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service which provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 1995. Periodical Archives Online at present gives the full text of articles from 228 journals indexed by PCI.

Search and browse more than 130 000 captions and more than 10 000 images from the National Archives' photographic collection.

The State Library of NSW contributes pictures and records from Manuscripts, Oral History and Pictures Catalogue to PictureAustralia. PictureAustralia is a web service which provides a single point of access to digitised images from many of Australia's leading cultural institutions.

An online archive of images and film footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history. Included in its holdings are the Picture History Collection, the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection, and the Gordon Parks Collection.

The Picture History Collection includes 18th, 19th, and 20th century images. It specializes in American Presidents, the White House, and the iconic people, scenes, and events that tell the story of American history.

The Meserve-Kunhardt Collection includes 19th and early 20th century photography. It is known for its holdings on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including not only scenes but the officers of both the Union and Confederate army and navy. It's holdings include coverage of the theater, the world of PT Barnum, early New York City and Washington DC, Native Americans, African Americans, artists, writers, journalists, clergy, scientists, and a large collection of notable 19th century American women.

The Gordon Parks Collection includes the life work of one of the 20th century's best known photojournalists. His images cover a broad range of subject that serve as distinct markers in American history.

This database abstracts and indexes the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. It includes the full text of more than 120 selected periodicals such as the New York Times. Types of materials include news stories, cover stories, product evaluations and book reviews. Subjects include such general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science.

The Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ) is the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession and the RIBA British Architectural Library, established in 1834, is the largest and most comprehensive resource in the UK for research on all aspects of architecture.

The Library's online catalogue is fully searchable by keyword, author, title, subject and series and provides:

(1) an index to articles in over 300 of the world's architectural periodicals and details of books and audio visual materials acquired by the RIBA Library.

(2) the holdings of the RIBA Library Photographs Collection.

(3) drawings, manuscripts and archives acquired by the RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collection.

(4) a biographical database of architects.

The RIBA British Architectural Library holds a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from prehistory to the present and is international in scope. In addition to architectural theory, practice and history there is material on allied subjects such as building and construction, civil engineering, structural engineering, landscape architecture, interior design and decoration, the decorative arts, town and country planning, and construction law.

Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference.

Contains drawings, photographs and information on major tall buildings throughout the world. Includes many skyscrapers in Australian cities and towns.

The Tate gallery, UK website includes over 65,000 images of works held by the gallery, as well as research papers, art history, exhibition information and education.

Timeframes is an online database of more than 20 000 heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National Library of New Zealand. The picture collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library cover the social and natural history of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica, from the earliest European contact to the present.

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, written by the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated by Museum's collection.

This site provides links to ANU library catalogues, electronic journals, general art sites, art schools, galleries and museums.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.The Web Gallery of Art is intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers