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Information on this page is organised under the following headings:

Acronyms, Glossaries and Templates

Bibliographies & Catalogues

Databases & Information Sources

Journals

Networks

Acronyms, Glossaries and Templates

Arts and Culture Glossaries

Cordis Guidance - RTD Acronyms Database (acronyms, abbreviations & glossary relating to EU Research & Development projects)

DCMS Evident Toolkit (DET) (interactive web based toolkit for accessing and using information about the cultural sector)

EBLIDA Acronyms (a guide to European & international acronyms used in libraries, cultural heritage & cultural policy sectors)

UNESCO Thesaurus: Culture

Bibliographies & Catalogues

See also the organisations listed at Observe or Policy as many of these provide their own publications online

International

UNESCO Bibliographies

UNESCO-ICOMOS Bibliographical Database (focusing on conservation and restoration of cultural heritage)

Africa

Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa - Bibliography

Americas

Americans for the Arts (Online Library)

Arts Management Research Clearinghouse, University of Oregon (focus on arts management)

Arts Policy and Administration Program, Ohio State University (various occasional papers)

Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University (various working papers, including bibliographies)

Center for Arts and Culture: Bibliography (survey of articles, books, and presentations in the cultural policy field from 1995-2000; can be browsed by author, title, or subject category, or sifted using a keyword search)

Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) (interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy)

Research Center for Arts and Culture: Research on Artists Bibliography

Europe

Arts Council of Finland: Library of Cultural Politics

Arts Research Digest (based in UK, a journal of recent and current research in the arts, media and cultural sectors around the world)

Boekmanstichting Library; Bibliotheek Boekmanstichting (more than 55,000 titles covering social aspects of the arts and culture, and arts and cultural policy)

Centre d'Estudis i Recursos Culturals (CERC) - Catàleg del Centre del Documentació (cultural research and study centre in Catalonia, over 8,000 records of cultural publications and documents)

Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow (database of cultural policy bibliographical resources)

Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick (bibliographies in PDF format)

Creative Europe Literature Review, ERICarts (materials consulted during the Creative Europe project; references are searchable by keyword or by any of 12 classification codes developed by ERICarts; users can also add and classify their own relevant resources)

Cultural Policies Collection, Council of Europe Library (offers 'dedicated interface' for searching)

Cultural Policy Research Online (CPRO) (online database of research studies concerning the arts and culture in a political, social, educational, historical and management context)

Impacts Database (bibliographical resource relating to research on the social and economic effects of arts, culture and major events; maintained by the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Kulpol database (managed by the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science at Göteborg University and Högskolan i Borås; contains both Swedish and international references from 1972 onwards)

Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles de Grenoble - Centre de documentation (searchable bibliography on cultural policy with more than 1,400 titles)

Project Eurocult 21 - bibliography on urban cultural policy (thematic network project supported by the European Commission; bibliography on urban culture and urban cultural policy)

Short film case studies (country by country survey reports on short films, television and distribution channels) (Council of Europe)

Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Osteuropa; Virtual Library Eastern Europe (ViFaOST) (web-based collaborative library project with access to a wide range of information on history, politics, society, language and culture)

Databases & Information Sources

See also Statistics

International

Art & Antiques Market

Artnet (access to the Fine Art Auctions database, with over 2 million illustrated fine art auction records spanning more than 12 years)

Artprice.com (over 4 million auction results from 1700; covering over 290,000 artists from the 4th Century to the current period)

Invaluable (database of catalogues; access to Invaluable Appraiser database with prices for 4 million sales over the past 10 years)

Americas

Canada

Canadian Cultural Observatory - Resources

USA

General

RCAC - ArtistFacts (compendium of facts, figures and comments on the status of artists)

Media: Computer Games

NPD Group (overview of product movement and consumer behaviour in a variety of industries including video games)

Media: Film & Video

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Index to Motion Picture Credits (IMPC), a searchable database of credits from all films released in Los Angeles County each year since 1976, with some info back to 1934; also database of past Oscar winners)

Baseline (over 1.5 million database records on film projects tracked from development to release)

Motion Picture Association of America (searchable movie ratings database for all rated films)

Media: Publishing

Editor & Publisher (International Yearbook has listings for all dailies worldwide and all community & special interest US and Canadian weeklies)

Publishers Weekly (database of bestseller information, author appearance schedules, etc., since 1997)

Media: Radio

M Street Corporation (records on over 12,000 US commercial radio stations, over 1,200 US television stations, and over 2,500 US cable systems)

Media: TV

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (offers searchable database of past Emmy Award winners and nominees)

Performing: Music

Billboard (fully searchable database that includes Billboard articles dating back to 1991, Weekly Charts back to 1984, and Year-End Charts back to 1946)

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (searchable database of past Grammy winners)

Performing: Theatre

American Theatre Wing (database of past Tony winners and nominees)

League of American Theatres and Producers (searchable database for Broadway and touring companies since 1984)

Asia

Asia-Pacific Database on Intangible Cultural Heritage

Europe

Arts in Education Survey (country by country survey reports on arts in education, written by Ken Robinson, published by Council of Europe)

Eurydice (information network on education in Europe)

Summaries of Legislation on Culture (information resource on institutions, programmes, regulations and policies related to culture of the EU, published by Council of Europe)

UK

Office of Communication (Ofcom) (regulates the communications industries)

Skillset (Sector Skills Council for the Audiovisual Sector)

Journals

Art-e-fact (digital magazine on cultural theory)

Cultural Trends  

Empirical Studies of the Arts (official journal of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics)

International Journal of Computer Game Research

International Journal of Cultural Policy

International Journal of Cultural Property (questions relating to cultural property policy, ethics, preservation, economics and law)

Journal of Cultural Economics (theoretical development of cultural economics as a subject, application of economic analysis and econometrics to the field of culture, and economic aspects of cultural policy)

Media, Culture and Society

Networks

International / Pan-National

Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) (furthering understanding of the economic aspects of the arts and culture in individual countries and throughout the world; holds international research conferences every two years, and sponsors small conferences, workshops, and sessions;  also sponsors a journal and other publications)

Culturelink (aims to strengthen communication among its members, encouraging international and intercultural communication and collaboration, as well as joint research projects; also develops a database and publishes the review Culturelink)

Americas

Canadian Cultural Research Network (CCRN)

Europe

CIRCLE (Cultural Information and Research Centres Liaison in Europe) (undertakes collaborative research and collects and disseminates information on research and documentation in the cultural field in member states of the Council of Europe)