Resources for ACSA students

• About Flinders University
• About Flinders University Library
• Library Resources
  • Reference collection
  • Book collection
  • Journals and library databases
• Internet Resources

About Flinders University

Carparking

• Between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday you must display a valid permit or a short term parking ticket.

• Parking areas are marked on the University map.

• Day permits valid for 24 hours from the time of purchase can be used in all car parks except 6, 12 and 18. They can be purchased from the Cashier's Office or from vending machines in the information bay near the University's main entrance and in car parks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9,15 (main precinct) 13, 14 16 and 20 (Sturt).
  
• Two-hour metered bays are provided in car parks 4, 5, 7 and 15.
  
• Ticketed bays are in car park 18 at Sturt (four-hour limit) and car park 6 near the Registry (four hours on top deck, no limit on lower deck).

• Disabled parking
  Disabled parking bays are available in most car parks. A State Disability Permit is valid in these areas without a ticket or day permit.

More information is available from the university web site

My tips on parking -

• The nearest carparks to the Central Library are car parks 5 & 6.

• Car park 6 has the most short term carparks.

• Car park 1 is best if you need a day park because carpark 6 is usually full by 8.30am during semester and no dayparking is available from carpark 5.

• Parking during the semester is always a problem and you may be circling for a while or forced to park a long way from the library. You will have more luck finding a carpark on weekends, evenings and unibreaks (these are slightly diffrent from ACSA breaks). Click here to find Library Opening hours.

Buses

• Public bus timetables are available from http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/

• The University also has a free Loop Bus services that runs during semester around the campus. This can be useful if you need to get to the Sturt or Medical Libraries or had to park a long way away from the library.

Food etc

• The campus has several food outlets. However, please note that very few are open on weekends, evenings or the end of semester beaks.

• You can also buy some magazines or stationary, get you photos developed, your eyes checked, your hair cut, book a holiday or fill a prescription. Click here for more information.

About Flinders University Library

Borrowing rights for ACSA students and staff without Academic status with Flinders University

• Your card is valid until 28th Feb of following year. You need to come to the Central Library with a current ACSA card during office hours 9-5 Mon - Fri to get a new card or renew and expired card.

• You can borrow 10 X 28 day loan books at one time (28 day loan books have the location Central books, Sturt Books, Medical Books, Law Books on the catalogue)

• Anything that is 1 day, 3 day, 7 day, Reserve you can't borrow. (Please note that you can always check with Veronica to see if they can be changed to a 28 day loan)

• You can renew 28 day loans online.

• You can place holds on 28 day loan items that are out on loan. These will be held at the Central Library Reserve Desk for you to pick up.

Photocopying and printing

• Your Flinders University Card is used to borrow books, photocopy and print in all Flinders University Libraries.

• Information on Printing is available from here. (Please note ACSA students can only use the Purple Sunray computers in the library. This will only allow you to access Flinders University Library resources)

• Black and White photocopying is available in all branches of the Flinders University Library and costs 11 cents per page. Colour photocopying costs 75 cents per page. (Please Note that absolutely no change is available in the library and food outlets may not be open at night or weekends)

General Information that may help

When you search the Flinders Library catalogue called Voyager you are searching all the following libraries:

Adelaide Theological Library - is located at Brooklyn Park (near the airport) You can borrow 28 day loans from ATL but you need to go there in person. Your Flinders Library card does not work to print or photocopy at ATL so you would need to buy a $2.00 card and add money (10 cents per page)

Central Library - This is main campus library it has four levels. Most of the books are located on levels 0, 2 and 3. Please note that the lovely big art books are usually located in the Folio section of the 700s.

Law Library - is located on the top level of the Central library

Medical Library - is located behind the Flinders Medical Centre.

Special Collections - Is located in the Law Library on the top level of the Central Library and is only open Monday to Friday 9.30 - 5pm. Many of the items housed in this area are very rare and you may require special permission to view them. Ask Veronica if you would like a tour.

Sturt Library - is located to the left when you turn on to University Drive from Sturt Road. It specialises in Nursing and Education but some lovely art books are also located there.

Universities' Research Repository South Australia - is located to the west of Carpark 9. Parking is available adjacent to the building. Drive through Carpark 9, past the Flinders Press and is open 12.30pm to 5pm Mon - Fri. You can also order items online via Voyager the Flinders Library Catalogue.

Library Resources

Reference collection

Useful Reference works include:

• Artists : from Michelangelo to Maya Lin. New York, UXL, c1995. (2 vols.) Universities' Research Repository SA 703 E67a
• The Blackwell dictionary of modern social thought.Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2003
  Central - Reference Collection 300.3 B632.2
• Companion encyclopedia of archaeology. London, Routledge, 1999. (2 vols.)
  Central - Reference Collection 930.1 C735
• Cultures of the world. New York, Macmillan Library Reference, 1999.
  Central - Reference Collection f 305.8003 C968
• The Dictionary of art. New York, Grove, 1996. (32 vols.)
  Central - Reference Collection 703 D552.T
• The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992
  Central - Reference Collection 703 D552.O
• Dictionary of symbols.Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1991
  Central - Reference Collection 302.203 L783s
• A dictionary of women artists of Australia. Tortola, BVI : Craftsman House BVI ; Roseville East, N.S.W. : distributed in Australia by Craftsman House, c1991.
  Central - Reference Collection 709.9403 G372.d
• The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994. (2 vols.)
  Central - Reference Collection 994.003 E56
• The encyclopedia of Australian art. St Leonards N.S.W., Allen & Unwin, 1994.
  Central - Books 703 M133.3
• International encyclopedia of communications (4 vols.). New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1989.
  Central - Reference Collection f 302.203 I61
• International directory of arts. Berlin,Kaupterverlag, 2004.
  Central - Reference Collection 705 I63
• McCulloch’s encyclopedia of Australian art.Fitzroy, Vic. : Aus Art Editions & The Miegunyah Press, 2006.
  Central - Reference Collection 703 M133m.4
• The new Fontana dictionary of modern thought. London : HarperCollins, 1999
  Central - Reference Collection 032 F679.3
• Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy.(10 vols.)London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
  Central - Reference Collection 103 R869 - CDRoms also available at this number in the Central AV Collection.

Book collection

To find any item in the Library's collections, use the Library Catalogue (Voyager Information System). This can be accessed from the terminals in the Library as well as from any computer with and Internet connection - no password is required.

The books collection is organised by the Dewey Decimal Classification. While most art books are found in the 700s other numbers you may find useful are:

100 PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY

200 RELIGION

300 SOCIAL SCIENCES

800 LITERATURE & RHETORIC

You may find the How to search & get results! sheet useful.

You can search by title, author, or keyword (follow the instructions on screen). You can also search by subject, which searches a controlled vocabulary of Subject Headings. For example:

Aesthetics
African American Art
Appropriation (Art) Australia
Art Australia History
Art and society Australia
Art and state Australia
Art, Australian
Art, Australian -- Aboriginal artists
Art, Colonial Australia
Art criticism
Art marketing
Art museums
Art patronage
Art Thefts
Artists and museums
Australia Cultural policy
Authorship
Authority
Conversation piece (Portrait painting)
Critical theory
Cultural property Protection
Deconstruction
Digital art Philosophy
Digital media Philosophy
Federal aid to the arts Australia
Figure painting
Giotto, 1266?-1337
Image (Philosophy)
Islam and art
Mass media and art
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
Museums
Narrative painting
Oblique projection
Optical illusions
Painting -- 20th century
Performance art
Perspective
Popular culture
Postmodernism
Romanticism in art
Sculpture, Australian
Semiotics and the arts
Ukiyoe
Visual perception

Journals

A journal (also known as a periodical, serial or annual) is a publication that appears at regular intervals on an ongoing basis. Each issue has the same title and contains articles written by many different authors. Reading the journal literature is a good way to keep up-to-date in the field.

The library subscribes to a number of print and electronic journals. Below is a selection of these periodicals most useful to Visual Art. To access electronic journals or find a call number for paper journals do a Journal Title search on Voyager (the library catalogue). (Please note you will only be able to access the electronic journals on the puple sunray computers in the Flinders university libraries. You can not access them remotely.)

If you would like to find where a journal is indexed or if it is peer reviewed try a search for the title in the Ulrich's database.

Listings of online art journals include:

Art Journals Online
Lists many journals available freely online.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Lists freely available online scholarly journals. Search by title, or look for the link to 'Arts and Architecture' for a subject listing.

Library databases

The best way to find articles in journals is to use one of the many journal indexes available. These are available in electronic format and are commonly referred to as Library databases. There are two types of Library database: citation and full text.

ACSA Students can use walk-in access to all three South Australian University libraries to access these resources.

Please remember you will not be able to access them from home - YOU NEED TO VISIT THE LIBRARIES and ask to use the public access terminals (these are the purple sunrays in the Flinders University libraries).

The Barr Smith - Indexes and Databases for Art History and Theories

Citation databases provide enough information to direct you to the full text of the article. They have sophisticated search capabilities, are subject-specific, and usually cover at least 30 years’ worth of literature. You will retrieve a citation (also known as a reference) for each item.

Full text databases will take you directly to the full text. While this is convenient, it is important to remember that there is a limited amount of material available in this format.

It is worth using a citation database that is subject-specific to ensure you obtain the maximum number of references, especially when looking for specialised information.

You may find the How to search & get results! sheet useful.

The following table summarises the most useful databases for Art-related research.

Resource	Discipline	Dates	Coverage	Access	Help
Arts and humanities citation index	Multi-disciplinary	Citation; 1987-	1,100+ of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Austlit	Australian literature	Citation; 1880-	Book, journal and electronic publications by and about Australian authors
Factiva	Multi-disciplinary	Full text; varies, 1998-	Contains all Fairfax and News Ltd newspapers
Google Scholar	Multi-disciplinary	Full text	Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Informit Search	Mulit- disciplinary	Full text + citation	An Australian database and is very good for local issues, artists etc.
International Index to the Performing Arts	Performing Arts	Citation; varies, from 1999-	150+ performing arts journals with subjects ranging from film and drama to magic and puppetry. Ask at the Library Information Desk for more information, Central Library.
JSTOR	Multi-disciplinary	Citation; varies	550+ titles in the Arts and Sciences, containing many of the core research and society published journals
MLA directory of periodicals	Multi-disciplinary	Citation; 1963-	3,700+ periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography.
MLA International Bibliography	Multi-disciplinary	Citation; 1963-	Bibliographic records relating to literature, language, linguistics and folklore.
Literature Resource Center (LRC)	Humanities	various	comprehensive literary collection
ProQuest 5000	Multi-disciplinary	Citation; 1963-	Major collection of online databases with full text articles from over 4000 journals.

Most library databases index scholarly journals. Many also index magazines, newspapers and trade publications; some may also index conference papers, book chapters, theses and government reports.

It is important to be able to recognise a scholarly journal, i.e. a journal that has been peer-reviewed. Peer review is the process of checking information by other experts in the field (peers) to evaluate it before its publication.

Internet resources

See the Library's Guide to Internet Research for how to find, evaluate and cite Internet information.

Open access digital repositories etc.(Academic pre and post prints)

Try AuseSearch to search all open access repositories in Australian and New Zealand universities containing refereed articles and PhD theses

Registry of Open Access Repositories

OAIster
A collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.

Art resources at other South Australian University Libraries

The Barr Smith

The University of South Australia

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

International galleries

RMIT

University of Melbourne