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Academic journal articles

Find journal articles on a broad range of design subjects including product design, industrial design, and furniture design.

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AustLit: the resource for Australian literature
AustLit is the most comprehensive record of Australia's literary and storytelling history and culture. Research projects supported by AustLit are designed to extend and share knowledge about Australia's cultural history by adding rich and diverse content streams while supporting scholarship in specific fields.
ProQuest Central
A comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection, ideal for starting your research on a broad range of topics.

Informit Online
The Informit Online package provides full text cover-to-cover access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings and other research material relating to the humanities and social sciences.

Taylor & Francis Online
An extensive collection of peer-reviewed articles. Including content on writing, editing and publishing.
Wiley Online Library
Provides access to books and journals from disciplines including classical & cultural studies, communication & media studies, history, literature, philosophy and political science.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Access quality-controlled Open Access Journals and their articles. The Directory covers all open access scientific and scholarly journals including design topics.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
JSTOR provides access to a wide range of scholarly content for the humanities and social sciences.
SAGE Journals Online
The SAGE Journals portfolio includes journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, and Technology. Provides full text access to subscribed titles.
Current Contents Connect (ISI)
Excellent coverage of arts and humanities scholarly journals with access to significant humanities and literature journals.

Creative writing research

Project Muse
A leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. A source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
ProQuest Arts Premium Collection
Allows users to conduct comprehensive literature reviews across the arts disciplines, access complementary full text articles.

Australian book review
Publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and new creative writing. Primary aims are several: to foster high critical standards; to provide an outlet for fine new writing; and to contribute to the preservation of literary values and a full appreciation of Australia’s literary heritage.
Informit Humanities & social sciences
Provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials on creative writing.
Oxford University Press journals
Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.

Publishing research

Literature & Culture Collection (Informit)
The literary magazine is an important part of Australia's literary and cultural heritage, a number of these are now being offered in the Informit Literature & Culture Collection. Key journals include Meanjin, Quadrant, Island, Wet Ink, Griffith Review and Southerly.

ProQuest social sciences premium collection
The ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection combines our discipline specific collections with powerful resources that cut across the entire spectrum of the social sciences including editing and publishing.
EBSCOhost Business source complete
Key business database that provides access to full-text, peer-reviewed articles from advertising, public relations, communication and research relating to publishing.
Informit Australian public affairs
Provides access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.

Screenwriting research

IngentaConnect (Ingenta)
An independent academic publisher in the fields of creative practice and popular culture that includes subscriptions to key academic screenwriting and cinema journals.
American Film Scripts (Alexander Street)
Contains scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. Now film scholars can compare the writer’s vision with the producer’s and director’s interpretations from page to screen. Most scripts in the series have never been published before and are available nowhere else.

ProQuest screen studies collection
A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. This collection includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International.

ScreenHub
Australia's portal for professionals working within and those aspiring to enter Film & Television, where a community read, write and share their knowledge and passion for the industry.

Bloomsbury applied visual arts
A resource for students and educators working across multiple fields of practice, including film and media, marketing and advertising.

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