Museum Studies Databases
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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Produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, AHB references published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.
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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.
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| 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.
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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 |
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| 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. |
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| Google Scholar
Searches academic information on the internet and may allow access to publications subscribed to by the University of Sydney Library. |
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| 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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