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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

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

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 Plus (EBSCO Publishing)
This comprehensive, full-text database provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes-to give students, professors and researchers a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet any and all of their research needs. Content includes more than 35, 700 plot summaries, synopses and overviews, more than 92,000 articles/essays of literary criticism as well as more than 250,000 author biographies.... 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

Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Alexander Street's Music collections offer the most comprehensive set of online materials to support teaching and studying in music and related disciplines. The curated and comprehensive collections provide students and teachers with reference, listening, and musical scores. All this content is are available via our cross-search platform...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 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

Naxos Video Library (Select Audio-Visual Distribution)
The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos...More info

NewsBank (NewsBank, Inc)
NewsBank provides schools with comprehensive information resources that complement, extend and even revolutionize library reference, media and technology... 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