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ABM : ART Bibliographies Modern via CSA (1970's - present)
References journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catlogues, PhD dissertations, and exhibitions reviews on all forms of contemporary art.
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BMUSE : Museology Database (1910's - present)
References material from international sources, including the UNESCO-ICOM Museum Information Centre, the Library of the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI), and the Library of the Direction des Musees de France.
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AHB : Australian Heritage Bibliography via Informit Online (1987 - present)
Produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, AHB references published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment. Australian content
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Art Index and Art Index Retrospective via Webspirs (1929 - present)
References articles, images, reviews and exhibitions from journals on the subjects of art, design and architecture.
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BHA : Bibliography of the History of Art
References research on European art from late Antiquity to the present, and American art from the European discoveries to the present.
 
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AHRR : Australian Historic Records Register via Informit
References articles, images, reviews and exhibitions from journals on the subjects of art, design and architecture.
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AMOL : Australian Museum & Galleries Online
Australia's only peer-reviewed online museum journal. Australian content
 
APA-FT : Australian Public Affairs Full Text via Informit
Contains the journal indexing of the APAIS bibliographic database 1978-, with the addition of scanned images of the top 200 journals indexed from 1994/95. Australian content
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ARTstor
Useful international collection of digital art images drawn from different sources, such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections and art reference libraries.
ARTstor has specific technical requirements.
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CHIN : Canadian Heritage Information Network
Promotes the development, the presentation and preservation of Canada's digital heritage.
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Dissertation & Theses Full Text via ProQuest
Access to full text doctoral dissertations and master's theses, mainly from US universities.
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ERIC : Educational Resources Information Center via CSA (1966 - present)
References journal articles and unpublished documents on educational theory and practice
 
Expanded Academic ASAP via Gale
Access to abstracts from more than 1500 journals and to the full-text of over 500 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Factiva (mid 1980's - present)
Access to articles, and reviews from national and international newspapers and news services.
 
Google Scholar
Searches academic information on the internet and may allow access to publications subscribed to by the University of Sydney Library.
 
JSTOR
Useful for the full-text of back issues of academic journals across the arts and sciences.

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Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
One of the largest Humanities and Social Sciences databases, it also provides citation analysis of authors and journals.
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