Arts — General

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.