This resource provides art market information for Australian and New Zealand forthcoming auctions, past auction results from 1969 to the present, market statistics, news and opinion.
Carter's Price Guide to Antiques allows research for prices on art antiquities, antiques, collectables, retro, vintage and 20th century design. It includes a professionally photographed image, and have been sourced from actual auction sales in Australia and New Zealand.
Design & Art Australia Online contains data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators. The site is a space for people to share and analyse data about Australian art and design history.
The Directory of Open Access Journals provides free peer-reviewed journals. There are over 15,000 journals available with high quality full research articles. The articles are available in a variety of languages and cover a number of subjects.
Flipster is a digital magazine subscription comprising popular best-selling titles such as Australian Personal Computer, Australian Women's Weekly, Choice, and Money. Available for State Library of Western Australia members to view on your computer or mobile device.
Gale Literature Criticism looks at history and culture of literature to assist research, providing scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
Gale Literature Resource Center provides current, biographical and contextual materials on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
The Gale OneFile Fine Arts collection provides access to magazines and journals to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Hoopla is a digital media service that allows library members to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on their computer or mobile device with no holds or waiting.
IBISWorld's AU & NZ Enterprise Profiles analyse thousands of leading enterprises across Australia and New Zealand, including: ASX and NZX listed companies; public, private and foreign-owned companies; local, state and federal government departments.
Kanopy provides the State Library and WA Public Libraries members access to a collection of films - including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases.
Kanopy Kids provides access TV series, learning languages, animated storybooks, Anime favourites, classic films and family movies to suitable for children.
Meanjin literary journal represent Australia's cultural memory through contemporary Australasian literature, the arts and modern culture itself, exploring subjects as diverse as migration, suburbia, popular music and television.
The National Construction Code provides technical design and construction provisions for Australian buildings. The site contains all three volumes of the Code. Free registration is required.
Naxos Music Library is a collection of music tracks you can listen to, including the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues including classical music, historical recordings, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music with notes on the works played, composers or artists.
Open Library collects details of published books. It also holds loanable copies of ebooks including some about or from Australia. It makes audiobooks available to print for disabled people.