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Aboriginal Language of Australia
Artlex Art Dictionary
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Indigenous Australia: from Wikipedia
Encyclopedia Mythica: Aboriginal mythology

Print References

Guides to Australian Arts
Artists & galleries of Australia
Currency companion to music and dance in Australia
The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture
World music : the rough guide

Dictionaries

A dictionary of Australian music
Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert : a biographical dictionary
Australian Aboriginal Words in English
The Dictionary of art
Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology, and legend
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
The Oxford dictionary of music
Press, radio & TV guide. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Australian art


Online Indigenous Studies Film Catalogues

ACMI lending collection online catalogue
Film Australia: Indigenous Studies Catalogue Online

Print Resources by subject @ VCA library

Indigenous / Aboriginal art books @ VCA
Indigenous / Aboriginal music books @ VCA
Indigenous / Aboriginal film books @ VCA
Indigenous / Aboriginal drama books @ VCA

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Select Performing + Visual Arts

Then select Indigenous Arts from the sub-categories box.

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ATSIROM - Collection of databases on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues.

InfoKoori - an index to the Koori Mail. Coverage from 23 May 1991. Also is an index to bibliographic information from the magazines: Dawn(1952-1969), New Dawn (1970-1975), and Identity (1971-1982).

Multidisciplinary Databases

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APAFT Australian Public Affairs - Full Text, provides internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.

APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service. Database provides links to articles from hundreds of leading Australasian journals.

ERIC - Education database. Full text access dependant upon contributor permission. Covers articles in Education including the arts.

Expanded Academic ASAP - indexes across all academic disciplines access to abstracts and some full text articles.

JSTOR - is an archive of scholarly journals covering a wide variety of disciplines. JSTOR does not include articles published in recent years, but may provide a link to them.

MLA International Bibliography - a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics since 1926.

Project Muse - is an online resource which indexes a range of full-text scholarly journals. Subjects covered include the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

All e-journals are accessed via Supersearch. Login and select Find an e-journal. Enter the title you want to look at.

Some available titles are:
Australian Aboriginal Studies
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter
Indigenous Law Bulletin

Aborigine News - online newspaper with up to date news and articles from WN Network.

Factiva - (Access via Supersearch – select Find a Database) includes major Australian newspapers and around 8000 publications, including local and international newspapers, newswires and journal sources. Articles can be just a few hours old

Koori Mail - Fortnightly national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newspaper.

Lexis-Nexis News - (Access via Supersearch – select Find a Database) a fulltext newspaper article database. Articles are available from 1993 to the current day.

Message Stick - Online information and news for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from ABC Online.

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Australia

Australian Digital Theses Project contains digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at the participating 7 Australian Institutions - also links to relevant Electronic Theses & Dissertations sites.

Education Research Theses Bibliography of Education Theses in Australia

Internationally

Index to Theses Index to These Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards.

Proquest Digital Dissertations - online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts Database

Coolcat - Victorian Academic Libraries, including RMIT library Catalogue and the State Library of Victoria

Libraries Australia - Academic, State and Public Libraries in Australia

Serials in Australian Libraries (SIAL) – (Access via Supersearch – select Find a database) Lists the locations of over 478,300 serials in Australian Libraries and can be searched to locate journals not held by The Victorian College of the Arts.

For a full list of Indigenous Arts-related websites click here

Arts Hub  - online information for Australian arts workers, jobs worldwide, and industry news from Australia and the world

VCA School of Indigenous Arts

Citing and Referencing -  University of Melbourne guide
Endnote -  Guide from University of Melbourne on how to use Endnote, how to download it etc.
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