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11. LicencedArt Index

H.W. Wilson: Art Index is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Subjects covered include: Advertising Art; Antiques; Archaeology; Architecture and Architectural History; Art History; Computers in Art; Crafts; Decorative Arts; Fashion Design; Folk Art; Graphic Arts; Industrial Design; Interior Design; Landscape Architecture; Motion Pictures; Museology; Non-Western Art; Painting; Photography; Pottery; Sculpture; Television; Textiles; and Video. Also available from 1929 in print at Sq 700.16 ART.

12. Freeartnet

artnet is a place to buy, sell and research fine art online. The online Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,000 galleries in 250 international cities, more than 90,000 works by over 18,000 artists from around the globe. The Network serves dealers and art buyers alike by providing a survey of the market and its pricing trends, as well as the means to communicate instantly, inexpensively and globally. Other key services include artnet Magazine, the insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews, and features by renowned writers in the art community, the Price Database, and information from the Grove Dictionary of Art.

13. FreeArts World Wide Resources

Offers the definitive, interactive gateway to all exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture on the Internet. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, performing arts ranging from dance to opera, classified ads, resume postings etc.

14. OnsiteAUSCHRON: A Chronology of Australian Historic & Current Events Database

Informit: Provides a listing of significant events in Australian history with emphasis on current happenings. It covers all topics from politics and law to the arts and sport. Source documents for current events are the main daily state and territory papers, mainly 'The Age', 'The Australian' and others.

15. FreeAusstage: Gateway to the Australian Performing Arts

: AusStage records information on live performance in Australia. It includes information on the name or title of the event, venue, date, production company and primary genre. It also contains biographical information on Australian theatrical performers.

16. FreeAustArt : Australian Art Journals Index

College of Fine Arts Library, University of New South Wales: An online index to almost 100 Australian art journals held in the College of Fine Arts Library, University of New South Wales.

17. LicencedAustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature

AustLit is a key resource for information about Australian writers and writing covering the 1780s to the present. AustLit provides a combination of enhanced biographical and bibliographical information and the full text of critical articles, creative writing and information resources about many aspects of Australia's literary heritage. AustLit also provides specialist research and information subsets, including Black Words: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Story Tellers, which contains biographical, bibliographical and full text material relating to Australian Indigenous cultures of literature and story. Other AustLit subsets cover children's literature, drama and popular theatre, multicultural writers, Australian magazine history, and Banned Books.

18. FreeAustralasian Journal of Victorian Studies

Australasian Victorian Studies Association: Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies is a fully refereed journal of Victorian Studies published by the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, with articles ranging on topics as diverse as archeology, architecture,art, economics, history, landscape gardening, literature, medicine, philosophy, print culture, psychology, science, sociology, spiritualism, town planning and theatre appearing in its pages. There are two issues a year.

19. FreeAustralia Council for the Arts

The Australia Council: The Australia Council is the Australian Government's funding and advisory body. Through a range of grants, it directly supports young, emerging and established artists, in the fields of: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, community cultural development, dance, literature, music, new media arts, theatre and visual arts/craft.

20. FreeAustralia Dancing

National Library of Australia: This resource provides users with access to both current and historical information about dance in Australia. The directory of resources describes dance research materials held by the National Library of Australia, ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive, and other selected institutions. The directory service is supplemented by other pages enabling discovery, location and access to information about dance in Australia through links to other relevant sites, and through current industry information provided by Ausdance and available on the Ausdance website.

Our subject guides

"Australian history: print resources"

The Library holds a large range of primary and secondary resources relating to the history of Australia. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Australian literature: print resources"

The Library holds a wide range of resources related to Australian literature. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Book reviews and literary criticism : print resources"

The Library holds a wide range of resources related to book reviews and literary criticism. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Australian history: selected websites"

These are selected sites for researching Australian history on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian history resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.

"Australian literature: selected websites"

These are general sites for researching Australian literature on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian literature resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.

"Mura Gadi : a guide to manuscript, pictorial and oral history materials relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the National Library of Australia"

Mura Gadi is an online catalogue of the National Library of Australia's manuscript, pictorial and oral history resources relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Though it does not list the many books, periodicals and other publications in the Library relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, these materials can be found using the Library's online catalogue at http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/

"Ship and passenger records: print resources"

Ship and passenger records are found throughout the National Library in books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, microform, pictures, maps and electronic media. Material includes information on ships, voyages, shipping companies, shipping and passenger lists and registers, shipwrecks, whaling, shipping arrivals and departures in Australian ports, logs, journals, diaries and voyage narratives, and ships' illustrations.