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Print References

BFI Companion to German Film
BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Film
BFI Film Handbook 2005
Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide
Cinema Year by Year
Encore Directory
Film Noir: an Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style
Film Review
Film, Video and Multimedia Guide
French Cinema Book
German Cinema Book
Get the Picture: Essential Data on Australian Film, Television, Video and Interactive Media
Hollywood.com Guide to DIrectors
Performing Arts Year Book of Australia
Showcast
Tenth Virgin Film Guide
Time Out Film Guide
Ultimate Guide to Lesbian and Gay Film and Video

All databases are accessed via Supersearch

To see the Subject Set for Film & TV. Login to Supersearch,

Select Subject from the pull-down menu (it will say Resource Sets)

Select Performing + Visual Arts

Then select Film & Television from the sub-categories box.

Select the database you want to search, or click on the check boxes to search several databases at once.

Film Index International - Film Index International is the definitive online resource focusing on entertainment films and personalities. Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute

Film Literature Index 1976-2001 - Film and Television online index covers over 300 journals. Coverage is from 1976 to 2001

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

To search for databases not in the Film & TV 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.

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 a link to them.

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

Project Muse - is an online resources 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:
American Film
Camera Obscura
Digital Cinema
Encore
Film & History
Film Comment
Film Criticism
Film History
Film Quarterly
Images: a Journal of Film and Popular Culture
Independent Film & Video
Journal of Film and Video
Journal of Popular Film and Television

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

Login to Supersearch and select theses from the Resources Sets.

At VCA
Ask at Loans/Reserve desk

In 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.

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 - 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 FTV-related websites click here

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

AusStage  - Gateway to the Australian Performing Arts. Information about events, artists, organisations and venues.

DVD and Videos

ACMI lending collection online catalogue

DVDs and Videos @ VCA
DVDs @ University of Melbourne

Film Australia Catalogue  - The Film Australia catalogue contains thousands of programs which have been produced under the National Interest Program or which are distributed by Film Australia. More than 1000 items are available.  Most are documentaries

University of Melbourne Media Collections - Information

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

Finding Information on the Internet
Searching and Evaluating - 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 engine for a particular search.  Developed in California by NoodleTools.