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  GALLERIES new Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander galleries

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  OUT of the
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  GOOD STRONG POWERFUL Australian galleries

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  RENAISSANCE 15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

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  unDisclosed 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial

Research resources

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Douglas Annand 'Cover design for 'The Home Annual' 1936' drawing, gouache Collection of the National gallery of Australia more detail

Research library resources

The E-Resources Gateway presents all of the libraries' electronic resources for researchers within the research library and freely from anywhere around the world.

• Library catalogue
• Trove
• Full-text Resources
• Full-text Serials
• Full-text Newspapers
• Indexes and Abstracts for Serials
• Image Databases
• Auction Sales Catalogues
• Australian art obituaries index
• The James Gleeson oral history collection
• Manuscript finding aids

Key

• Green - Connect freely from anywhere in the world.
• Blue- Must connect from within the National Gallery of Australia.
• Black - Ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.

Full-text Reference Resources

• Art & Architecture Complete
  This database provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. In addition, it offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books. Password required.
• Artcyclopedia
  Lists 8,500 artists, indexes 2,300 sites and provides access to 180,000 works of art.
• Artlibraries.net
  Metasearch interface across a number of distinguished art library catalogues.
• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a non-profit digital library of over one million images in the arts, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
• Australian art obituaries index
  A listing of obituaries for Australian artists and art professionals based on information received in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library since 1990.
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
  Over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.
• Berg Fashion Library
  Winner of the 2011 Dartmouth Medal, the Berg Fashion Library is the only resource to provide integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history.  It includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a vast image bank, extra reference resources and more.
• Geoscience Australia Place Name Search
  A database of Australian place names; includes map, latitude/longitude, and other descriptive data.
• Designinform
  Consists of three databases: Design abstracts retrospective, Design ProFILES and ReVIEW (digitised important decorative arts journals).
• Dictionary of Australian Artists Online
  An open access and dynamic scholarly reference work with over 7000 biographies.
• Dictionary of Art Historians
  A biographical dictionary of scholars, museum professionals and academic historians of art.
• Macquarie Dictionary & Thesaurus
  Australia’s national dictionary online.
• Oxford Art Online
  A virtual art reference library.
• Oxford Reference Online
  Offers quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by world-famous authors. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines.
• Prints and Printmaking  Australia Asia Pacific
  Prints and printmaking Australia Asia Pacific provides a gateway for information on printed images from Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
• Wikipedia
  Collaborative encyclopedia.

Full-text Serials

• ART Full Text 
  An image gallery that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world with full-text coverage for selected periodicals. The image gallery is from the collections of major museums.
• JSTOR Museum Collection
  Focus on arts, humanities and science journals in a full-text archive of over 1000 serial titles.
• INFORMIT Australian Public Affairs and Full Text
  An indexing and full text database that provides business access to journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. It covers from 1978 to the present and indexes a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books. 

Full-text newspapers

• Proquest Australian and New Zealand Newsstand
  A selection of full-text newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand covering regional and international topics
• Google News Archive
  Search historical newspaper archives including the NLA’s digitised Australian titles.

Indexes and abstracts for serials

• Artbibliographies Modern and Design and Applied Arts Index
  Source of information on contemporary arts and design.  Search across both databases on a single search.
• AustArt
  Australian art journals index from COFA, UNSW.
• AVAD:  Australian Visual Arts Databases
  Password required for first-time login. Contact Reference Desk
  Contains biographies on over 22,000 Australian visual artists, including over 5,800 Indigenous artists. Includes NATSIVAD, ARTEX, OzBiogs and Art Prizes Database.
• Bibliography of the History of Art
  Now freely available from the Getty (there are access issues with this at the moment).

Image databases

• The National Gallery of Australia
  Works of art from the National Collection
• Bridgeman Art Library
  Images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists representing museums, galleries and artists.
• The Getty:  Explore Images
  Works of art from the Getty.
• Matapihi
  Images from the New Zealand galleries and libraries
• PictureAustralia
  Australia’s major historical picture collections.

Auction sale finding aids

• Australian Art Auction Records 
  Password required. Contact Reference Desk.
  The largest and most extensive database of Australian & New Zealand paintings sold at auction since 1973. Searchable by artist with titles, prices and graphs.
• Australian Art Sales Digest
  Password required. Contact Reference Desk.
  The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of past auction results offered for sale in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty-five years of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists. Data covers over 1,500 auction sales from over 50 auction houses, and extends back to the early 1970s.
• Artfact
  Password required. Contact Reference Desk.
  Artfact Professional collects unabridged auction catalogs from more than 500 prestigious fine auction houses around the globe. It adds the actual selling price results in order to create the most comprehensive online database of auction results (more than 10 million) for researching art, antiques and collectibles.
• Art Online
  Password required. Contact Reference Desk.
  This online Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,200 galleries in over 250 cities worldwide, more than 100,000 works by over 25,000 artists from around the globe.
• Artprice.com
  Art market information

Manuscript finding aids

• Papers of the Print Council of Australia
• Papers of Studio One
• Papers of Betty Churcher
• Papers of Grahame King
• Papers of Fred Williams: official roles and responsibilities