Australian libraries and archives

Australian Libraries Gateway – directory to Australian libraries

Libraries Australia – a national bibliographic database of material held in Australian libraries

TROVE – a guide to personal papers and non-government records held by Australian libraries and archives

National Library of Australia

State Library of NSW

State Library of Victoria

International art libraries

Arlis/ANZ – Art Libraries Society of Australia & New Zealand

The Getty Research Institute

Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum

Art museum collections online

Collections Australia Network – Australian cultural heritage collections

Cornucopia – UK museum, gallery, archive and library collections

Joconde – French museum collections (in French)

Biographical research

Ø Australian Visual Art Databases & Art Right Now2 – includes Ozbiogs, Australian Visual Arts Prizes, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Visual Artists Database (NATISVAD) and Australian Auction Results

Dictionary of Art Historians

Design & Art Australia Online Online

Ø Grove Art Online – includes The dictionary of art and The Oxford companion to Western art

Prints and Printmaking Australia | Asia | Pacific

Image research

Ø Art Museum Image Gallery – international

Bridgeman Art Library – international

Matapihi – New Zealand

Picture Australia – Australia

Art auction research

Cultural Gifts Program – includes a list of approved valuers in Australia (PDF, 264 KB)

Ø Australian Art Sales Digest – artworks sold at auction in Australia and New Zealand since the 1970s

Ø Australian Art Auction Records Online – artworks sold at auction in Australia and New Zealand since 1973

Ø Artnet – artworks sold at auction internationally since the early 1980s

Ø Artprice.com – artworks sold at auction in internationally since 1700 (extensive since around 1990)

Ø Gordon’s Art Sales Index

Journal indexes

Ø Australian Public Affairs Information Service – index to articles from published material including periodicals, newspapers, journals, conference papers and books on arts and crafts and cultural studies, since 1978

Ø ARTbibliographies Modern – full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, PhD dissertations and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, since the late 1960s

AustArt Index – index to Australian art journals

Ø WilsonWeb – periodicals databases that provides full text, page images, abstracts and indexing of leading art magazines and journals