VCA / University of Melbourne Library Catalogue
Supersearch - Online Gateway to all University of Melbourne Electronic Resources  
Help with Library Catalogue    
VCA Library Journal List

Online References

To search for online reference works, login to Supersearch and select Find a Database. Enter the title you want to look at. Follow the links.

Oxford Reference Online includes several art dictionaries, including Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art and Concise Oxford Dictonary of Art Terms. Database is updated regularly.

Grove Art Online includes entire text of Dictionary of Art ed. J.Turner,(1996), and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001)

New Media Online is a trilingual English-French-German catalogue. Includes material from the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum Ludwig, and the Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine.


Print References

Artists and Galleries of Australia
Australian Artists Index
A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Dictionary of Australian Artists
Dictionary of Photography and Digital Imaging
Encyclopedia of Australian Art
Grove Dictionary of Art
Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts
Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture

All databases are accessed via Supersearch

To see the Subject Set for Art. Login to Supersearch.
Select Subject from the pull-down menu (it will say Resource Sets)
Select Performing + Visual Arts
Then select Art from the sub-categories box.
Select the database you want to search, or click on the check boxes to search several databases at once.

Useful Databases

ARTBibliographies Modern - is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts. Includes english and foreign language material and coverage is wide ranging with monthly updates. Dates of coverage are 1974 to present.

ARTEX is a listing of exhibition catalogues from public and commercial galleries in Australia.Covers a wide variety of media. Note: This database is no longer being updated - instead exhibition listings are now being entered in the Ozbiogs database.

AustArt is an index of Australian art journals held in the College of Fine Arts Library, the University of New South Wales. Coverage is from 1987 to the present.

AVAD 5 is an Australian Visual Arts Database. A unique source of biographies on over 22,000 Australian visual artists, including over 5,800 indigenous artists. It includes NATSIVAD- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Artists Database. This biographical database, currently has biographical details on more than 5,800 indigenous artists. AVAD 5 also includes OzBiogs which features over 22,000 biographical and bibliographic entries for Australian artists.

Bibliography of the History of Art - Contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art. There are over 665,000 records, with approximately 8,000 added quarterly. Coverage is from 1973 to present.

Picture Australia - consists of links to over 450,000 digitised images from Australia's leading cultural heritage insitutions including the Australian War Memorial, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, and the State Libraries of NSW, Tasmania, and Victoria.

Wilson Art Abstracts - Contains major international art publications.
The years of coverage are September 1984 to present.

To search for databases not in the Art set, select Search for Databases and enter the title.

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.

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

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

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 languagges, literatures, 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.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index - Web of Science - a citation index that includes social sciences, and science. From 1975 to the present.

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

Some of the available titles are:
African Arts
Art Bulletin
Art History
Art Journal
Artforum
Artforum International
Burlington Magazine
Design Quarterly
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society
Leonardo
October
Print
Representations
The Art Book
Third Text

All newspapers are accessed via Supersearch. Login and select Newspapers from the Resource Sets

Factiva Includes major Australian newspapers and around 8000 publications, including local and international newspapers, newswires and journal sources

Lexis-Nexis News Lexis-Nexis News is a fulltext newspaper article database. Articles are available from 1993 to the current day.

At VCA
Ask at Loans Desk

Login to Supersearch and select theses from the Resources Sets.

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

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- includes RMIT Library Catalogue and the State Library of Victoria Library Catalogue.

Libraries Australia - National Catalogue of Academic, State and Public Libraries in Australia.

Serials in Australian Libraries (SIAL) - 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. Login to Supersearch and click on Find a Database, then search for SIAL

For a full list of Art-related websites click here

ANU (Australian National University) - provides links to valuable websites through the creative arts libraries.

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

Picture Australia - consists of links to over 450,000 digitised images from Australia's leading cultural heritage insitutions including the Australian War Memorial, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, and the State Libraries of NSW, Tasmania, and Victoria.

VCA School of Art

Citing and Referencing (University of Melbourne guide)
Endnote (Guide from University of Melbourne on how to use Endnote, how to download it etc.)
Copies will be available from the VCA Library Loans Desk.

Finding Information on the Internet
Searching and Evaluating and Citing Information (University of Melbourne guide)
Internet Tutorials (Online guides from the University at Albany, NY)
Choosing the best search engine A tool for choosing the best search engines for a particular search. Developed in California by NoodleTools.