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Oxford Dictionary of Dance

Print References

International Encyclopedia of Dance
Oxford Dictionary of Dance
International Dictionary of Modern Dance
Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia
A French-English Dictionary of Technical Terms
Biographical Dictionary of Dance
Dictionary of Ballet Terms
Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia

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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, has 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 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

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American Journal of Dance Therapy
Dance Chronicle
Dance Magazine
Dance Research Journal
Dance Spirit
Dance teacher
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
Performing Arts Journal (PAJ)
Pointe
Research in Dance Education
Southern Quarterly

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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 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 - 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 Dance-related websites click here

Australia Dancing - The Australia Dancing portal, hosted by the National Library of Australia, provides users with access to both current and historical information about dance in Australia. Materials listed are held by the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, and other selected institutions.

Australia Dance Council - The Australian Dance Council — Ausdance, is Australia's professional dance advocacy organisation for dancers, choreographers, directors and educators. Ausdance provides a dance information network through services based in national, state and territory offices.

AusStage- Directory is a database of information on resources related to Australia's performing arts heritage.

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

Laban - Centre for Dance - Europes leading conservatoire for contemporary dance training

VCA School of Dance

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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Finding Information on the Internet
Searching and Evaluating - University of Melbourne guide
Internet Tutorials - Online guides from the University at Albany, NY
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