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Photography

Databases and Gateways | E-Journals
Galleries & Artists' Pages | Equipment & Supplies | History and Theory
Associations & Organisations | Guides & Tools (Technique) | Web Pages of Interest
Subject Strands | Librarian


Welcome to the resources pages for the School of Creative Arts. This page looks at resources relevant to the Photography subjects (PT) and some pages that might be relevant across the different 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 world of web. Highlights Blog



Special Feature!

- JCU currently has a Virtual Book Display featuring selected books from our Graphic Design collection! You can follow a series of hyperlink trails, or click through the display as a regular slide show. Check it out!

Databases and Gateways

  • General Information
    • If you are off campus login via Remote access
  • 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.
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index Available through Web of Science
  • AustArt - the Australian art journals index is produced by the library at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. The index provides access to articles and reviews on Australian art and artists which are published in journals that are currently held by the College of Fine Arts Library, or have been held by the library in the past. A very small database with limited results.
  • Informit Online - Includes Australian databases such as APAIS, MEDIASCAN
  • ProQuest 5000 - ProQuest indexes a wide range of journals in the sciences and humanities and includes the full text of many articles.
  • Xrefer - This online, full text, reference library includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as subject specific titles from art, to literature, to law.
  • Web of Science- Includes Arts and Humanities Citation Index. One of the better databases for Arts subjects offered by JCU at present

  • Grove Art Online - The Grove Dictionary of Art covers all aspects of the visual arts - architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. The online edition of this standard reference work includes updates and links to other internet resources including images of art works held in public museum collections throughout the world. More a current awareness service than a database.

  • Intute: Arts and Humanities - Gateway providing free online access to a variety of web pages 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.
  • CAN, Collections Australia Network - Formerly Australian Museums and Galleries Online. Intended to be a gateway linking collections across Australia, including the small to medium regional institutions
  • ANU's ArtServe - Images of art and architecture mainly from the Mediterranean, Japan and India. Downloading may require payment.
  • Galaxy: Photography - Website directory. Leads to some good sites.
  • PhotoGraphicLibraries - A link gateway to several companies, specialising in photographic libraries for stock images, etc.
  • The Voice of the Shuttle: Photography - A gateway to many photography resources


  • 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.)


Galleries, Museums, Exhibitions & Artists' Pages


Equipment & Supplies

  • Photozone.de - Information on hardware as well as some
  • Ace - Links to a range of photographic resources such as camera equipment manufacturers, wholesale distributors, retail outlets and repair facilities in 36 countries, including Australia.
  • Camera Review - Reviews a wide range of cameras, and provides links to a variety of photographic sites
  • Digital Camera HQ - DigitalCamera-HQ.com's mission is to help consumers find the right digital camera for their needs and then direct them to the best online retailers selling these products.
  • Digital Photography Review - News, reviews and comparisons of digital cameras. Includes sample photographs from different camera models
  • Image-Acquire.com - Compares and evaluates digital cameras and scanners
  • Agfa
  • Kodak
  • Konica Minolta
  • Leica
  • Pentax
  • DVshop


History and Theory


Guides & Tools (Technique)


Associations & Organisations


Web Pages of Interest


Subject Strands


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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.

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