Arts and Humanities
Reference Resources
- Oxford Reference
- Online access to a wide range of subject dictionaries and 'companions'.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition
- A multi-disciplinary reference resource, the online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- 'A reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of "what we think" accessible to students and general readers'. From the Gale Reference Library.
Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- A multi-disciplinary database providing full-text access to thousands of academic journals.
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Multidisciplinary database that meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
- informaworld
- "Multidisciplinary, including: History, Literature & language, Performing arts."
- Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Collection
- Behavioural Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
- Family & Society +
- Provides citations, abstracts and full-text articles relating to research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families.
- Project Muse
- Online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals.
Web Sites
- Australian History websites
- From the National Library of Australia, lists selected sites for researching Australian history on the Internet and provides a starting place for researchers in this field as well as a diverse range of information on Australian history resources.
- Australia Council for the Arts :Research Centre
- The Research Centre holds the most comprehensive collection on arts and cultural policy in Australia. Its collection consists of books, serials and videos covering contemporary and historical trends in arts sector development as well as an historical archive of all Australia Council policies, programs and publications.
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Links to statistical reports, conference proceedings, journals abstracts & AIFS publications in full-text.
- Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics
- Links to international Ethics resources including: papers, articles & newsletters.
Professional Associations
- The Australasian Political Studies Association
- The Australasian professional association of those teaching and researching in political science and related disciplines.
