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

Digital 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.

• PRIMO for resource discovery at the NGA
• Library catalogue (classic view)
• Pandora
• Artlibraries.net
• Trove (NLA)

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.

Online publications by the NGA Research Library

NGA Archive Finding Aids

• Papers of Australian Gallery Director's Council (88kb, pdf) | 346kb, rtf
• Papers of Hélène Kirsova (132kb, pdf) | 339kb, rtf
• Papers of Neil Roberts (111kb, pdf) | 917kb, rtf
• Papers of Frances English: Letters regarding Blue poles acquisition (93kb, pdf) | 894kb, rtf
• Papers of Loudon Sainthill (92kb, pdf) | 514kb, rtf
• Papers of the Print Council of Australia (479kb, pdf) | 516kb, rtf
• Papers of Studio One (291kb, pdf) | 295kb, rtf
• Papers of Betty Churcher (85kb, pdf) | 8kb, rtf
• Papers of Grahame King (105kb, pdf) | 33kb, rtf
• Papers of Gallery A (639kb, pdf) | 497mb, rtf
• Papers of Fred Williams: official roles and responsibilities 165kb, pdf | 310kb, rtf
• Papers of Marion Kaselle: Max Hutchinson Galleries 240kb, pdf | 322kb, rtf

Library Publications

• ANG/NGA pamphlets index 1976–1998 (166kb, pdf)
• Australian art obituaries index
• Artonview index (198kb, pdf)
• James Gleeson Oral Histories
• NGA Gallery Exhibitions List
• NGA Travelling Exhibitions
• Paris Salons catalogues in the research library

Scholarly Databases

• Art & Architecture Complete

Art Full Text
Art Index Retrospective
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
Art Museum Image Gallery

• Arts & Humanities Full Text

ARTBibliographies Modern
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
International Bibliography of Art

• Artcyclopedia
• Artlibraries.net (Virtual Catalogue for Art History)
• Arts Journal
• AustArt
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
• Australian Galleries Archives
• AVAD:  Australian Visual Arts Databases
• Bibliography of the History of Art
• Craft Australia National Historic Collection on eHive
• Designinform

  Design abstracts retrospective
  Design ProFILES
  ReVIEW

• Dictionary of Australian Artists Online
• Dictionary of Art Historians
• Getty Research Portal
• Geoscience Australia Place Name Search
• Google Art Project
• Google News Archive
• In the Artist's Footsteps
• Index of Christian Art
• INFORMIT Australian Public Affairs and Full Text
• JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive
• Macquarie Dictionary & Thesaurus
• Oxford Art Online
• Oxford Reference Online
• Prints and Printmaking Australia Asia Pacific
• Vogue Archive (USA)

Image Databases

• The National Gallery of Australia Collection Search
• ARTstor
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Illustration Index to Australian Art
• Matapihi (Images from New Zealand galleries and libraries)
• VADS (Visual Arts Database from the UK)

Auction sale databases: Passwords required

• Artsales index (ARTINFO) Freely available
• Artfact
• Artprice.com
• ArtNet
• Australian Art Auction Records
• Australian Art Sales Digest

Access may be restricted to National Gallery of Australia staff. For further information, please consult the Reference Desk. [rlr@nga.gov.au]