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Oxford Reference Online includes several art dictionaries, including Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art and Concise Oxford Dictionary 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).

Print References

1968 Copyright Act, 2001 reprint
2004 Law Handbook
Arts Insurance Handbook
Australian Directory of Philanthropy
Australian Writers’ Marketplace
Business and Legal Forms for Fine Artists
Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Dictionary of Art
Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory
Money for Visual Artists
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Oxford English Dictionary
This Business of Music
Visual Artists and the Law


List of Useful Books @ VCA Library - by subject

Diaries, Journals, Notes and Autobiographies
Business
Community Cultural Development
Copyright in Australia
Grants
Zen and Art

All databases are accessed via Supersearch

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Select Performing + Visual Arts

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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.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index - Web of Science - a citation index that includes social sciences and science.

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 links 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

Philosopher's Index - a bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosopy. From 1940 to the present.

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

e-journals
Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management
Community Development Journal
Journal of the Community Development Society
Theory, Culture and Society

e-books
Culture, Citizenship & Community
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
Women, Culture and Development

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At VCA
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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 Theses 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 - National catalogue of Academic, State and Public Libraries in Australia

SIAL - lists the location of over 478,300 serials in Australian Libraries and can be searched to locate journals not held by The Victorian College of the Arts. Access via Supersearch – click on find a database and search for SIAL

For a full list of CFI-related websites click here

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

VCA Centre For Ideas

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)
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