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Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage Learning)
Academic OneFile is an up-to-date and easy-to-use database for serious academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 indexed journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for students. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive... More info

AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature (AustLit)
Provides authoritative information on over 400,000 works of creative and critical Australian literature - published in a range of print and electronic sources - relating to more than 65,000 Australian authors and literary organisations, from 1780 to the present day... More info

Benezit Dictionary of Artists (Oxford University Press)
Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. Benezit contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies. In addition to its outstanding scope and depth, two features in particular make Benezit unique among art reference works: its superb coverage of obscure artists and the inclusion of images of artists' signatures, monograms, and stamps. ... More info

Discovering Collection (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text and Indexing. Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are popular topic pick lists and an integrated national and site curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards... More info

Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Oxford University Press)
The 10-volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music is already established worldwide as the most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music. In addition to being regularly updated, it is also fully cross-searchable alongside Grove Music Online within the new Oxford Music Online gateway... More info

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO Publishing)
Film & Television Literature Index ™ with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews... More info

Oxford Art Online (including Grove Art Online) (Oxford University Press)
A subscription to Oxford Art Online now includes Grove Art Online and additional Oxford art reference titles, including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms... More info

Oxford Music Online (including Grove Music Online) (Oxford University Press)
A subscription to Oxford Music Online now includes Grove Music Online and additional Oxford music reference titles, including The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.. More info

Infobase eBooks (Warner Books)
Infobase eBooks offers access to more than 2,000 current and backlist Infobase titles through an easy-to-use eBook format. Infobase eBooks span a wide range of core, curriculum-oriented subject areas, both reference and nonfiction from history, science, and literature to geography, social issues, the arts, biographies, and more... More info

Informit Indigenous Collection (RMIT Publishing)
The Informit Indigenous Collection (IIC) offers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies. Readily available, the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework encompasses anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policy making, (post) colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts... More info

Informit Literature & Culture Collection (RMIT Publishing)
Created in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, the Informit Literature & Culture Collection is an essential reference database for academic, school and public libraries and for teachers and students of literary studies, cultural studies and creative writing courses... More info

JSTOR (JSTOR)
JSTOR is a database established to convert back issues of paper journals into electronic format in core fields. The JSTOR archive of digitised full text journals does not include current issues... More info

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO Publishing)
Comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes... More info

Literature Resource Center (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text. Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline... More info

LitFinder (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text. LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts... More info

Naxos Music Library (Select Audio-Visual Distribution )
A listening and educational resource for schools, libraries and universities containing over 265 000 tracks and 18 200 albums of classical, world and jazz music... More info

Naxos Music Library Jazz (Select Audio-Visual Distribution)
One of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artist. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B... More info

Naxos Music Library - Sheet Music (Select Audio-Visual Distribution - powered by FreeHandMusic)
The Naxos Music Library - Sheet Music is a sheet music database, powered by the largest online digital sheet music store, FreeHandMusic.com, offering users over 45,000 titles. It delivers digital scores in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st Century... More info

Naxos Spoken Word Library (Select Audio-Visual Distribution)
Naxos Spoken Word Library offers listen on-demand access to all recordings from the Naxos Educational and Naxos Audiobooks catalogues. It includes recordings from the world's greatest literature - classic novels, plays and poetry, from medieval times to the Twentieth Century and all works are read by professional actors/actresses... More info

NoveList (EBSCO Publishing)
If you are looking for ways to introduce both teachers and students to new books, and if you want to encourage independent reading and help students think more about why a particular story appeals to them -- you should look at NoveList... More info

Oxford Art Online (including Grove Art Online) (Oxford University Press)
A subscription to Oxford Art Online now includes Grove Art Online and additional Oxford art reference titles, including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms... More info

Oxford Music Online (including Grove Music Online) (Oxford University Press)
A subscription to Oxford Music Online now includes Grove Music Online and additional Oxford music reference titles, including The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music... More info

RequestTV (RMIT Publishing)
RequestTV is a fully searchable and browsable program guide of all television content from the free-to-air networks... More info

The Shakespeare Collection (Gale Cengage Learning)
Full Text. Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies... More info

TVNews (RMIT Publishing)
TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries. It is updated daily... More info