Images, videos and plans: Databases & journals
Finding and using visual media in your research and studies
Databases
There's more than just finding images, videos and plans themselves. For your assignments, you will also need to find articles about images, videos and plans, and their creators. Search in the following subject specific databases to find images, artists, journal articles, newspaper articles, and more.
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
- Art Full Text (EBCOhost) Formerly Wilson Art Full Text. Indexes over 380 art periodicals and contains full text from 108 journals going back to 1997. Subjects include architecture, archaeology and the history of art, as well as crafts, costume and textiles.
- ARTstor An online repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data covering art, architecture, and a range of multidisciplinary topics. NOTE: you need to register with Artstor to save images and access full functionality.
- Australian Data Archive The Australian Data Archive (ADA) is a Core Trust Seal certified repository, based in the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM) at the Australian National University (ANU). ADA was established at the ANU in 1981 with a brief to provide a national service for the collection and preservation of digital data relating to social, political and economic affairs and to make these data available for further analysis.
- Bibliography of the History of Art Contains references to journal articles, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers’ catalogues. Covers painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture, decorative and applied arts, crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art.
- Communication & mass media complete Communication & Mass Media Complete provides access to journal articles in the areas of communication, mass media and related fields.
- Factiva Provides fulltext access to significant news items from almost 8000 international sources and 9000 key Web sites. Includes more than 100 Australasian sources. Coverage includes articles from newspapers, news wires, press releases, company announcements and journals ; and daily pictures from Reuters and Knight Ridder. Also provides information on companies and industries and stock market details. Has various search interfaces and indexes. Images, data and graphs are not included.
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (via EBSCOhost) Covers journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
- Informit e-Library : humanities & social sciences Part of the Informit database this sub-section specialises on humanities and social sciences and including media studies.
- JSTOR JSTOR provides electronic full text of complete back sets of over a thousand major journals in a range of disciplines, including social sciences, business and economics.
- Media Scan Note: Media Scan is no longer updated. Media Scan will remain available on Informit as an archive database. Media Scan is a bibliographic database featuring articles indexed from daily newspapers. Media Scan indexes the following newspapers: Sydney Morning Herald (1996-), The Age (1991-), The Australian (1991-), The Herald Sun (1991-), The Bulletin (1991-), The Courier Mail (1995-), Sunday Mail (1994-), Adelaide Advertiser (1997), West Australian (1996-1997). Contains over 177,400 records.
- Nineteenth-century art worldwide A project to republish on microfiche the English-language books and pamphlets of permanent research value published in all parts of the world except North America between 1801 and 1900. The index is available through the above link.
- Oxford Art Online (Formerly Grove Art Online). Oxford Art Online is today's foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art.
- PressReader Provides access to over 200 newspapers from more than 55 countries, displaying them in their original format and layout.
- ProQuest This online serials database has more than 7,000 titles, some 3,500 in full text. Combines international, national and regional newspapers and periodicals to make a core collection in business, general reference, and news. Incorporates general reference, arts, humanities, sciences, career and technical education, computing, etc. Includes ABI/Inform global, Academic research library, ProQuest computing, Health & medical complete, ProQuest education journals, ProQuest religion, ProQuest social science journals, ProQuest public health etc. Citations from 1971 forward; full-text backfiles from 1987 forward.
- SAGE Research Methods Online SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research tool supported by a newly devised taxonomy that links content and methods terms. It provides a picture of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioural sciences. It includes more than 100,000 pages of SAGE book and reference material on research methods as well as editorially selected material from SAGE journals. In addition, SRMO contains content from more than 600 books, including the complete Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences "Little Green Books" series from SAGE.
- Web of Science Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Includes Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present) and Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (1990-present).
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