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Art & Design

A guide to art and design resources available from ANU Library.

What are reference sources?

Reference sources are resources used to locate basic information and secondary literature.

There are many types of reference sources, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, handbooks, guides, and style manuals. 

They are a fantastic places to begin your research, especially if you are exploring a new topic.

Reference sources can help you to:

  • define your topic in general terms
  • find background information, including themes and key points
  • identify keywords and alternative terms for conceptualising your subject, and for database searching.

Reference sources

The selected online resources below offer images, videos, and writings about art and design aimed at learning, teaching and research. Please have a look at dictionaries, handbooks and encyclopedias tabs for more reference resources.

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