Databases and Gateways | E-Journals | Web Pages
Associations & Organisations | Guides & Tools | Software
Subject Strands | Librarian
Welcome to the resources pages for the School of Creative Arts. This page looks at resources relevant to the New Media (NM) and Graphic Arts (GA) subjects and touches on pages which may be relevant to other subject strands.The SoCA Highlights Blog is a great way to find new resources, or explore some of the older ones. It looks at interesting resources right across the Creative Arts disciplines, covering Visual Arts, Music, Photography, Digital Media and Theatre... among other things. Make sure you visit it every week or so to see what's out there in the big wild word of web.
Databases and Gateways
- General Information
If you are off campus login via Remote access
- Electronic Databases Alphabetical listing of all databases available through JCU
- Database Guides to read online or printout to help in using internet resources.
- Australian Public Affairs Indexing Service (APAIS) - a broad multidisciplinary resource focusing on Australia. It provides full text of articles where available. Available via Informit.
- Expanded Academic ASAP - indexes articles of general academic interest. Links to the full text of many journal articles. Available via InfoTrac.
- Project Muse (Arts and Humanities) Full text coverage of hundreds of journals.
- Intute: Arts and Humanities Gateway providing free online access to a variety of webpage's for education and research. Over 115,000 high quality educational web resources selected and annotated by subject specialists at several UK universities.
- Adam A gateway to art, design, architecture and media information. Soon to be superceded.
- BUBL Link Catalogue of Internet Resources. Browsable by Dewey Decimal numbers.
- Ask Search Engine - An alternative to Google and Yahoo. Uses a different search algorithm
- Vivisimo Search Engine - An alternative to Google and Yahoo. Uses a different search algorithm
E-Journals (JCU Subscriptions)
A selection of media, culture and creative arts journals available online (Some are browsable online, others require access via JCU s E-Journal's page. For paper holdings and other other sources, check Tropicat.)
- Design Week - Design; Advertising, marketing and public relations; Business and industries; Visual arts; Arts and humanities. Browsable online, accessible via E-Journals.
- Computer Arts - Offers free tutorial downloads from the web site. Only available in print at JCU Library
- Computer Graphics (Quarterly) - the official publication of the ACM SIGGRAPH organization
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Available via E-Journals.
- Computers in Entertainment - an ACM publication. Accessible via E-Journals
- ACM Transactions on Applied Perception - an ACM publication. Access via E-Journals.
- ACM Transactions on Graphics - an ACM publication. Access via E-Journals
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology - an ACM publication. Access via E-Journals
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications - an ACM publication. Access via E-Journals.
- Advanced imaging - Available via E-Journals
- Computer graphics forum - Available via E-Journals
- Computer graphics world - Available via E-Journals
- Computers & graphics - Available via E-Journals
- Digital imaging techniques - an advanced tool for commercial & creative pros. Available via E-Journals
- Communication Arts - Limited search ability online. Only available in print at JCU.
- Critical studies in media communication - Available via E-Journals
- New Media Age - Available via E-Journals
- SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture - a project of the Media Department, Macquarie University
(non-JCU subscriptions)
- Computer Graphics World - some articles available for free, full-text.
- Mix - Journal for sound designers. Covers all industries involving sound design, including music and television.
- Inside Computer Graphics - Some free online articles. Connects to forums and job advertisements
- CG Channel - Web based magazine for computer graphics professionals
- Wired - Actually not a journal, but more of a news service. Wired collects reports and articles from various online journals and blogs, as well as having a few original articles.
JCU Library also has a number of journals related to multimedia and computer graphics that are only available in print. Search Tropicat for subjects or titles of interest.
Web Pages
See also: JCU's Information Technology Resources page.
- The I Spot - "portfolios from over 1,000 of the world's top illustrators"
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Royalty Free Classical Music - Once purchased, you can use this music for any public work without paying royalties
- Premium Beat - Royalty free music for purchase
- Royalty Free Music - Specifically intended for news and media productions. Music for purchase
- stockmusic.net - Specifically intended for media productions. Music for purchase
- HTML Help by the Web Design Group - Web authoring advice
- ABC New Media Showcase - The National Broadcaster's online medium for showcasing digital programmes and projects. Includes a link to 4 Minute Wonders, a space for emerging artists to get their work seen.
- Australian e-Humanities Gateway - "a reference point for those involved in or seeking information about projects and events concerned with the use of digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia"
- Database of Virtual Art - "documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art". A Project of Danube University Krems
- Digital Art Museum - "an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews." Includes essays and a history section which lists key events and technologies according to date.
- Digital Blasphemy - Page showcasing the work of digital artist Ryan Bliss. Also has links to tools and other artists pages.
- Game Sound Design - a collection of articles from FilmSound.org covering the topic of sound in computer games
- Museum of Computer Art (MOCA) - a member of the University of the State of New York
- Savinoff Design Studios - Personal home page for digital artist Dmitry Savinoff. Also has tutorials and some handy links
Associations & Organisations
- IEEE Computer Society - "The Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing technology"
- Association for Computing Machinery
- ACM SIGGRAPH - Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
- CREATE - Centre for Research in Electronic Art Technology
- iCinima - Centre for Interactive Cinema Research. Supported by the University of New South Wales.
- Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific (MAAP) - "specialises in showcasing the work of the region's major and emerging new media arts practitioners, creating new networks, introducing the artists and their work to audiences, and increasing cultural contact and understanding through the experience of new media arts"
- CG Society - Society of Digital Artists.
Guides & Tools
- Graphic Designers Paradise
- Design & Publishing
- Index of Elements - W3C Recommended HTML tags
- Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1 - W3C Recommendation for CSS
- Apophysis - Freeware fractal flame editor for windows. Has wiki manuals and tutorials.
- Graphics Short Course 1: Color Theory and 2D Image Representation - Seminar notes from Penn State University
- Color Topics in Computer Graphics - Notes from the Australian National University
- Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice - by the Visual Arts Data Service
- Entheos: free resources - a number of free tutorials for Flash and Dreamweaver, etc
- All Graphic Design - includes forums, tutorials and other resources for graphic designers
- A Survey of Color for Computer Graphics - 86 page pdf file, 6.16MB. A SIGGRAPH course.
- Lode's Computer Graphics Tutorial - Covers fractals, raycasting, etc
- How we really use the web - an extract from the book Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
Software
- Digital Element - commercial site for Digital Element, who develop WorldBuilder and Aurora software
- e frontier - commercial site for e frontier America Inc, who develop Poser and Anime Studio, etc
- e-on software - commercial site for e-on software, who develop Vue and Ozone
- Flay.com - "News and Resources for the 3d artist". Seems to be reviews of various products, particularly LightWave
- LightWave 3D - Home page for the LightWave products
Subject Strands
- Core Creative Arts
- Theatre/Performance
- Music
- Photography
- Visual Arts
Graphic Arts Students please refer to Visual Arts and Digital Media
Your School Librarian
The Liaison Librarian for the School of Creative Arts is Sharon Bryan. Feel free to contact her for any information needs, including help with research, referencing and general inquiries.
Comments? Suggestions? If you know of any resources which should be on this page (or shouldn't), please contact Sharon Bryan.
If this information is inadequate, incorrect, or can be improved in any way, please let us know