Core School of Creative Arts Resources - Library and Computing Page

Databases and Gateways | E-Journals | Web Pages
Associations & Organisations | Arts Management, Museum and Gallery Resources
Guides & Tools | Subject Strands | Librarian

Welcome to the resources pages for the School of Creative Arts. This page looks at resources relevant to the Core subjects (CV) and pages that are 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.

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
• 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.
• ERIC via CSA - Contains citations of education related articles
• ProQuest - Proquest provides articles in abstract as well as full text across a range of subjects in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Web of Science- Includes Arts and Humanities Citation Index. One of the better databases for Arts subjects offered by JCU at present
• Project Muse (Arts and Humanities) Full text coverage of hundreds of journals.



• Xrefer (now known as Credo Reference - 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.



• 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.
• Internet Movie Database One of the most commonly consulted databases concerning movies and television programmes.
• The Voice of the Shuttle - Media Studies pages
• The Voice of the Shuttle - Art (Modern and Contemporary) pages
• The Voice of the Shuttle - Cyberculture pages.
• Arts Info - What's left of a defunct programme to find Australian organisations and resources
• Aboriginal Art, Culture and Spirituality - the Internet Guide to Aboriginal Studies



• 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.)

• The Broadsheet A free magazine dedicated to visual arts and culture. A publication of the Contemporary Arts Center of South Australia.
• RealTime +onscreen "RealTime is Australia's critical guide to international contemporary arts. Our focus is on innovation in performance (live art, experimental theatre, dance, music, sound), photomedia, film, video, interactive media and hybrid arts."
• M/C Journal A journal of media and culture.
• Continuum Journal of media and cultural studies affiliated with the Cultural Studies Association of Australia.
• Cultural Critique "A forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics".
• International Journal of Arts Management - Available via E-Journals
• Australian Humanities Review - Available via E-Journals
• Media, culture & society - Available via E-Journals.
• Global media and communication - Available via E-Journals
• Australian Journal of Communication - Available via E-Journals
• SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture - a project of the Media Department, Macquarie University

Web Pages

• Culture & Recreation Portal - Directory of Australian cultural organisations and resources.
• NLA Digital Collections - digitised versions of select items in the National Library of Australia's collections. Includes links to Picture Australia and Music Australia, although the material held here is intended to complement those collections rather than duplicate them entirely.
• ARTnews - Art festival links around Australia
• Message Stick - Arts Culture and Events page from ABC Message Stick
• Australian Film Commission
• Valuing Art, Respecting Culture: Protocols for working with the Australian Indigenous visual arts and craft sector - "sets out protocol both to guide non-Indigenous people in their relationships with Indigenous artists and communities, and assist Indigenous artists to define their rights". Electronic documents.
• Australian Indigenous Art - The Australian Government's Culture and Recreational Portal
• The Smithsonian Institute - One of America's most prestigious cultural organisations. Contains pages on Art and Design, History and Culture, Science and Technology
• Online Learning Skills Resources - By JCU's Teaching Learning and Development team
• Zamzar - Free online file conversion site
• FreeFoto.com - "Free" stock photos for use in non-profit projects
• World Wide Metric - Conversation calculator, converting between various different measurement systems
• Design Life Now - "features the work of 87 designers and firms who are leaders, innovators, or emerging figures in the world of design"
• ABC Arts Online - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Creative Commons - International page
• Creative Commons Licenses - "describes each of the six main licenses offered when you choose to publish your work with a Creative Commons license"
• HTML Help by the Web Design Group - Web authoring advice
• Resources for Creative Arts Students - A current awareness blog run by Sharon Bryan, the former School Librarian for the School of Creative Arts at James Cook University

Associations & Organisations 

• Arts Hub Australia - Includes news and jobs classifieds
• Museums Association - Association for workers in museums and galleries. Contains table of contents for MA's two major journals: Museums Journal and Museum Practice
• Australian Round Table for Training in Arts Excellence
• IP Australia - "the Australian Government agency responsible for administering patents, trade marks, designs and Plant Breeder’s Rights"
• culture.gov.au - Australian Government Culture and Recreational Portal
• Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) - The people you have to contact if you want to use music (other than your own) in anything public.
• CAN: Collections Australia Network - Formerly Australian Museums and Galleries Online

Arts Management, Museum and Gallery Resources

• Museum Handbook - a "reference guide on how to manage, preserve, document, access and use museum collections"
• Museum Studies - A list of resources from the Smithsonian Institute
• Global Museum - A webzine for museum workers
• Museum Resources and the Internet - Paper by Leonard D. Will
• NAME: National Association for Museum Exhibition
• Museums Australia
• MOUSEIA - "the online resource centre for museologists and museum professionals
• Arts Management Network - "an international information network for arts managers" and "a resource for academics, students, policy makers, researchers, regional and national authorities, business people, and journalists"
• Arts Management Advisory Group - A Victorian organisation.
• Information Sheets - from the Arts Council England

Guides & Tools

• The OWL at Purdue - Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL). Provides excellent information and guides for grammar, writing and research skills.
• Virtual Reference Resources - A JCU Library page linking to dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc
• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - Rhetoric is the art of effective speaking, although this site applies the techniques to writing
• Referencing Style Guides - APA, MLA, Vancouver and Harvard.
• Symbols.com - Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms. Useful for graphic designers and art historians.
• Emigre Fonts - A resource for purchasing fonts with some educational material
• Tools & Resources for Universal Design - "several Tools and Resources to assist in considering the needs of people of all ages and abilities in the design of products and workplaces"
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - by John Hopkins University
• Internet Detective - by Intute. Well worth reading through
• Advice on Academic Writing - from the University of Toronto
• Hit Parade of Errors in Grammar, Punctuation and Style - from the University of Toronto
• Dartmouth Writing Program - Materials for Students. Includes "Writing the Academic Paper and "Writing in the Humanities"
• Writing a Thesis - Dartmouth Writing Program
• Online Tutorials - From Basic Computing Skills to basic C Programming. Tutorials are aimed at beginners. From University of Leicester



• Suggested Format for Presentation - Teaching and Training - From Word Perfect X3's Presentations software



• Microsoft Office Suites - by Microsoft. Offers 'help', downloads and trials
• WordPerfect X3 Suite - by Corel. Highly compatible office software. Can save documents in a number of different file-types, including Word and PDF. Suite includes Spreadsheet and Presentation software which are completely comparable with Microsoft applications, as well as Lotus and several other platforms
• StarOffice Suite - by Sun Microsystems. Cheaper alternative to WordPerfect software. Offers the ability to save files in various formats, including Word and PDF
• OpenOffice - a Freeware version of StarOffice. It doesn't come with as many bells and whistles, but it does the job, and it's free. Works on all platforms, saves in multiple file types

Subject Strands

• Theatre/Performance
• Music
• Photography
• Visual Arts
• Digital Media (New Media)
Graphic Arts Students please refer to Visual Arts and Digital Media

Your School Librarian

The Liaison Librarian for the School of Creative Arts is Claire Swift . 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 Claire Swift.

If this information is inadequate, incorrect, or can be improved in any way, please let us know