Museum Studies Databases
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| ABM : ART Bibliographies Modern via Proquest (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via Informit Online (1987 - present) Produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, AHB references published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.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 via Ebsco (1929-present) A good starting point for research in art, design and architecture. Indexes articles, reviews, exhibitions and images in art journals. |
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| Grove Art Online via Oxford Art Online Useful for quick information on artists, art movements and the visual arts in general. Also includes links to images in external web sites. |
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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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| BHA : Bibliography of the History of Art Wide ranging art history index, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. Includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l’art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975-1989, will be online by May 1 2010. Please also use ABM : ARTBibliographies Modern, for current material after 2009, & JSTOR for earlier material |
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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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| 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. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage. |
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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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| Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates. |
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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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