Libraries & Research

• ACMA: Australian Television History and Trivia FAQ
  The Australian Communication and Media Authority's FAQ on the history on Australian television covering topics from the invention of television, its introduction in Australia to the number of TV sets in Australia.
  http://www.acma.gov.au/ACMAINTER.2883838:STANDARD:509651299:pc=PC_91867
  
  
• AFTRS Jerzy Toeplitz Library
  Library: books, scripts, periodicals, videos, press clippings on film, television, radio, multimedia,
  digital media, photography, publishing, design, acting, writing. Collection designed to support courses offered at AFTRS and to provide for needs of industry, students of film and broadcasting, and general public. Large script (published and unpublished) collection. Borrower's card $55 per year for industry and general public, $40 for AFTRS ex-students and AFTRS short-course students, includes GST. Open to industry and public. Research services available; prices on request. Facilities: inter-library loans; photocopying; VHS/U-matic/Laserdisc/DVD viewing. Online: catalogue available Publications: bibliographies on directing, editing, cinematography, scriptwriting, production design producing, digital media, sound, documentary, screen studies, Australian film, treatments, pitching, sitcom and disciplines of filmmaking. Databases: include Austrom, Cinemania 1997, Film and Video Finder, Film Index International, FIAF International FilmArchive Database and LexisNexis.
  http://www.aftrs.edu.au/library
  
  
• Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Library
  One of the major collections of literature on broadcasting and media in Australia. Major subject areas include communications law, administration law, corporations law, radio and television broadcasting, broadcasting policy, broadcasting technology, mass media, media culture, telecommunications, advertising, journalism and online issues. The collection includes books, reports, pamphlets, periodicals, government reports; many available online. Computerised retrieval systems give quick access to information in its own collection. The public is invited to use the Library by appointment for research purposes during normal business hours (9 am-5 pm).
  http://www.acma.gov.au/ACMAINTER.2883838:STANDARD:563745294:pc=PC_9017
  
  
• Australian Electronic Journals
  A current listing of over 1,000 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, e-mail fanzines, etc. including overseas works with Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis.
  http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/ausejour.html
  
  
• Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS)
  The AFTRS is the national centre for professional education and advanced training in film, broadcasting and interactive media for Australian citizens and permanent residents. A variety of full-time courses (mostly at postgraduate level) are conducted in Sydney and hundreds of short courses are conducted nationwide each year. AFTRS also offers online courses. The library catalogue is available on the web site.
  http://www.aftrs.edu.au
  
  
• Australian Government's Entry Point
  The National Library gateway to Australian Government information on the internet.
  http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/
  
  
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Library
  AIATSIS is an independent Federal Government statutory authority devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. Australia's premier institution for information about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Library contains one of the most comprehensive collections of print materials on Australian Indigenous studies in the world; has adopted the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services. Specialist services are available for those doing genealogical research and native title research.
  http://www.aiatsis.gov.au
  
  
• Australian Libraries Gateway (ALG)
  A search engine specifically for libraries within Australia, it also includes links to worldwide library catalogues, servers and sites, and The Internet Public Library.
  http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/
  
  
• Australian Media Law and Policy Bibliography
  Bibliography covers publications since 1/7/96 dealing with law and policy relating to the Australian media, including film and television.
  http://www.holdingredlich.com.au/bibliography.html
  
  
• Australian Short Films
  Australian Short Films .com is an IT interface for Australia's young and emerging filmmakers- Australian directors, Australian actors,Australian writers, Australian cinematographers please contribute. This site includes a database of short film scripts by young and emerging writers, a range of links related to short filmmaking in Australia and information about the people involved in Australia's short film industry.
  
  http://websites.golden-orb.com/asf/
  
  
• Australian Television Information Archive
  A comprehensive fan site for Australian television providing information for numerous series, minsieries and telemovies with the largest collection of episode guides for Australian TV series on the web.
  http://www.australiantelevision.net/
  
  
• Australian War Memorial
  Online film and audio database, with over 2,000 film titles and 400 sound recordings.
  http://www.awm.gov.au/database/
  
  
• Communications Law Centre (CLC)
  The Communications Law Centre (CLC) is a public interest research, teaching and public education organisation specialising in media and communications law and policy.
  http://www.comslaw.org.au/
  
  
• Culture and Communication Reading Room
  The Reading Room, the online initiative of the CRCC at Murdoch University, provides: an authoritative public education resource in culture and communication, with particular reference to screen studies, and more especially Australian film and TV; a research site; and a site providing teaching materials in screen and cultural studies.
  http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/index.html
  
  
• Entertainment Insiders
  The "Entertainment Insiders" are a collection of movie freaks who have no shame whatsoever in writing about the film world. We follow all facets of the movie industry, from breaking movie news and box office coverage to movie reviews, columns and interviews with the hottest folks in showbiz.
  
  http://www.einsiders.com/gross/budgets.php
  
  
• European Audiovisual Observatory
  This multilingual site provides information on the various aspects of the audiovisual industry in Europe (statistics, financing, co-productions, law, practical information, etc), information on the task of the Observatory.
  http://www.obs.coe.int/
  
  
• Internet Archive: Movie Collection
  This collection contains movies that the Prelinger Archives has digitized (about 956 now online) and donated to the Internet Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. This is the first time that most of the films have been available to the public. They are "open source movies" -- available for viewing at no cost and with few restrictions. About 956 films are now online.
  
  http://www.archive.org/movies/index.html
  
  
• Library of Australian Film Television and Radio School
  Online catalogue; research tools and links for the film, television and radio industries; library information - hours and services; virtual reference desk.
  http://www.aftrs.edu.au/library
  
  
• Media International Australia (MIA)
  Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (MIA) publishes new scholarly and applied research on the media, telecommunications, and the cultural industries, and the policy regimes within which they operate. Broadly inclusive and inter-disciplinary, the journal welcomes the writing of history, theory and analysis, commentary and debate. While its primary focus is Australia, the journal also aims to provide an international perspective. Media International Australia was previously published by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and Culture and Policy was the journal of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy.
  http://www.uq.edu.au/emsah/mia/
  
  
• National Library of Australia (NLA)
  Provides information about the Library, its collections and services, about Australia, Australians and Australian government.
  http://www.nla.gov.au
  
  
• RMIT AFI Research Collection
  The AFI Research Collection is a non-lending, specialist film and television industry reference library, that is open to the public. The Collection has particular strengths in screen history and theory and in Australian cinema. This website provides access to a searchable catalogue that references the books, journals, media clippings files and other materials that make up the AFI Research Collection. It also provides information about research and other available services.
  http://www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au
  
  
• Roy Morgan Research
  Roy Morgan Research's Single Source Survey includes details about Australians, their product usage, intentions and their media habits. Access provides the ability to profile customers, their media consumption, preferences, involvement and interest in various TV programs, Pay TV, Frequency of attendance at the cinema, movie genre and classification.
  http://www.roymorgan.com
  
  
• Screen Network Information Provider's (SNIP)
  SNIP (Screen Network Information Providers) is an informal network of Australian collectors and providers of specialist information on the screen and broadcasting industries. Current members of SNIP are: Australian Communications & Media Authority Library, ABC, Australian Film Commission Research & Information, Australian Film Institute Research Collection at RMIT, Australian Film, Television and Radio School Library, National Film & Sound Archive Library.
  http://www.afc.gov.au/industrylinks/study/libraries.aspx
  
  
• Screenonline
  The definitive guide to Britain's film and television History
  http://www.screenonline.org.uk/
  
  
• ScreenPlay (Melbourne)
  ScreenPlay is a non-profit collective of professional writers, actors and directors, presenting unproduced film scripts as live readings. ScreenPlay readings enable writers to hear their work, often for the very first time, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of their scripts via audience input.
  http://www.screenplaymelbourne.com
  
  
• Screensite
  International screen research site, from University of Alabama. Screensite's primary purpose is to facilitate the study of film/TV to nurture thoughtful, critical approaches to media. Divided into four principal areas: Education, Research, Film/TV Production, and Miscellanea.
  http://www.screensite.org/
  
  
• Screenwriters Utopia
  A US based site offering forums, interviews, script sales, screenwriting contests, screenwriter Profiles
  script reviews and a news archive.
  http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/
  
  
• Script Crawler: Script Search Engine
  ScriptCrawler, the internet's first and most advanced script search engine. ScriptCrawler uses a custom PHP script to interact with a blazing fast MySQL database to deliver results accurately and quickly. A great resource for screenwriters, and a fun site for movie fans, ScriptCrawler links you to thousands of screenplays, teleplays, radio scripts, and stage plays.
  http://scriptcrawler.net/
  
  
• The Atom online edcuation shop
  ATOM has created an online education shop with hundreds of articles of relevance to Primary, Secondary and Tertiay teachers and studnet teaching or studying Media Studies, Film as text, Film Sudies, English and Screen literacy. All articles can be downloaded as pdf files or posted as hard copy.
  http://www.theeducationshop.com.au/shop/default.asp
  
  
• UC Berkeley, Media Resource Centre, Collections
  Subject arranged listing of movie collections in the MRC holdings. Search for movies by title, director,genre, language, country.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/VideographyMenu.html
  
  
• Waverley Library - Cinema in Waverley
  Historical information about cinemas in Sydney's Waverley Municipality.
  http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/localstudies/historical/hats.htm