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Introduction, reference sources, databases and journals, referencing and citing.

This subject guide highlights some key discipline resources to get you started with study and research. 

• Refer to the  New Students Library Guide for everything you need to know about Library services and resources.
• Build your researching, reading and writing skills with the Research Essentials Library Guide .
• Streamline your access to online resources with the Library's quick access tools.

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

If you are having trouble getting started, sometimes a reference work can help you.  By looking up a person or concept, you may learn more on your topic.  This can help you to think of more keywords or synonyms for your catalogue or database search.

• Oxford Reference Oxford Reference is the home of Oxford’s quality reference publishing. The collection provides quality, up-to-date reference content at the click of a button. The University of Melbourne subscribes to selected titles from this large collection of materials.
• Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Directories

Use databases to search across many academic resources (including peer-reviewed journals) at the same time. 

Refer to the A-Z Ejournals and Databases page for a comprehensive list of available resources. 

Core Arts and Humanities databases:

The selection of multidisciplinary databases below will retrieve results from different subject areas. 

• Discovery (EBSCO) Use Discovery to look for books, ebooks, journal articles and more. It's a great place to start your search but does not give you everything the Library has.
• Google Scholar Google Scholar is one of the most popular ways to find academic sources for study and research. Did you know you can use it to search for journal articles that the University of Melbourne has access to? You can do this through the link above or set up your Google Scholar preferences to include Library content.
• JSTOR JSTOR is one of the largest databases the Library has access to. It is a multidisciplinary database so it looks in thousands of journals in over a hundred subjects - many of them related to arts and humanities. Highly recommended as your first or second place to search.
• ProQuest Central Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.
• Scopus (Elsevier) Scopus is another large, multidisciplinary database. It looks through journals, books, and conference papers. It has some advanced tools that can help you discover new research quickly - the 'times cited' and 'related articles' links are great time-savers. While it doesn't always have full-text PDFs it is still an excellent place to look for your research.
• Web of Science Web of Science is a massive, multidisciplinary database which includes a large amount of humanities and social sciences material from as far back as 1900. Like Scopus it has some advanced features that allows you to quickly link to related research.

Databases relevant to Creative Writing

For more focused results, try searching in one of these subject-specific databases..

• MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) Produced by the Modern Language Association the International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. It includes citations to content published in journals, books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites and dissertations. The database also includes the Directory of Periodicals and the Thesaurus.
• Literature Online (LION) (ProQuest) Leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. The collection contains more than 350,000 works of poetry, drama and prose, over 350 full-text literature journals, and key bibliographies, biographies, reference works and student guides. Also contains the bibliographic database ABELL, with records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) Incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, as well as full text for over 450 journals.
• Project Muse Journal Collection Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.

Select list of Australian journals for Creative Writing

• Overland Overland – Australia’s only radical literary magazine – has been showcasing brilliant and progressive fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art since 1954. The magazine has published some of Australia’s most iconic voices, and continues to give space to underrepresented voices and brand-new literary talent every single day. Also available in print from 1954.
• Southerly : the magazine of the Australian English Association
• Going down swinging
• Cordite Poetry Review
• Text Journal
• Kill your darlings: new fiction, essays, commentary and reviews

You can access print and eBooks via the  Library Catalogue . To find books on a particular subject, try a keyword search:

To improve your searching skills, see the Research Essentials Library Guide . Note that you can search the catalogue in non-Latin scripts (including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean). 

For information on access and loans, including material from other libraries, see the borrowing from the library page. The eBook Guide provides information on eBook access.

Visit the Finding Theses guide

You can find relevant information and resources for your research on the websites of professional organisations and bodies, institutes, NGOs, government departments, etc.

This guide gives a few suggestions to get you started and to give you an idea what to look for. It is by no means comprehensive.  If you are a coursework student, check your LMS to see if your lecturer has provided website recommendations.

Tip : if you want to limit your Google search results to organisational, governmental, or educational websites, use Google's advanced search option to limit the site or domains to . org, .gov, .edu . 

Selected websites

• Australian Poetry A not-for-profit association established to promote reading, writing and publishing activities associated with Australian poetry in all of its forms.
• Australian Society of Authors The professional association for Australia's literary creators. Includes useful information on recommended rates of pay, Copyright Agency Limited, Public Lending Rights, and resources for authors. Authorlink for editors, agents, writers and readers This site provides resources to help writers become published and to make the job of finding good writers easier for editors and agents.
• NewPages.com
• Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas The centrepiece of Melbourne's City of Literature.
• Writers Victoria Includes what's on in Victoria, and links to resources, organisations, funding bodies, online magazines and the publishing industry.

Copyright websites

• Australian Copyright Council An independent non-profit organisation which aims to assist creators and other copyright holders with their rights. A wide range of information sheets on various aspects of copyright is available from the website.
• University of Melbourne Copyright Office

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• Calendar Mid-year (July) – Commonwealth Supported Place & Graduate Access Melbourne applications due 31 May 2024
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The GRTF will provide post-confirmation PhD candidates with a .3 fulltime equivalent, fractional appointment at level A2 for 10 months, from February to November, in the second and/or third year of their doctoral candidature. Each teaching fellow will be offered a package of teaching to meet the FTE allocated – approximately two to three hours of tutorials per week, depending on the level of subject and the teaching experience of the fellow. Fellows will be appointed on the basis of their eligibility and school/program teaching needs. Fellows will be expected to remain actively enrolled and working on their thesis for the duration of the Fellowship.

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• SOCI30015 Work, Labour and Society
• SOCI30016 Social Sustainability
• SOCI90003 Comparative Social Policy
• SOCI90005 Social Research Design and Evaluation
• SOCI90018 Indigenous Policy Analysis
• SOCI90025 Social Justice and Social Welfare
• SOTH20002 Classical Sociological Theory

Casual Research Assistants

This work supports Faculty of Arts researchers across all Schools in their research activities. Research Assistants on the pool will be eligible to be offered research assistance assignments on a casual basis throughout 2024. Casual work assignments may be between a few hours and a few weeks at a time and will vary through the year.

Casual Research Assistants must have one or a combination of skills including editing and proofreading, proposal writing, translation of a variety of languages, literature reviews, and data collection and management. Research Assistants will be allocated project-based work aligned with their skills and expertise as it becomes available.

Registration for the casual pool does not necessarily guarantee that work will be offered during the year.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Registration of Interest dates for 2024

The Faculty of Arts is not currently seeking registrations of interest for the casual Research Assistant pool.

Sessional Positions

During the period of advertising for casual tutors, subjects will be added on a rolling basis so please continue to check the CTRS to see what is open.

All Sessional applications must be lodged through the CTRS to be considered. For more information please see CTRS user guides below.

Discovery Teaching Associates

Discovery Teaching Associate roles for semester 1 2023 will be advertised through the CTRS. To apply for available positions follow the ‘ Apply Now ’ link and create a user account in the CTRS.

Working With Children Check

All casual staff engaged on an academic teaching or teaching support contract are required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check. Further information is available on the Working with Children website or by contacting the University’s HR Assist team .

Important notes

• It is expected that the majority of applicants will receive an outcome within the timeframe listed in the ‘Outcome notification’ section of the table above. In some cases, because these positions are dependent on student enrolments, applicants may not receive a final notification until the teaching start date for the teaching period.
• Applicants for sessional teaching who are enrolled as PhD or Masters students must have been confirmed in their candidature and not be past 3.5 years (PhD) and 1.5 years (MA) full-time equivalency. Currently enrolled Research Higher Degrees (RHD) students at the University of Melbourne applying to become a tutor must have the support of their supervisor.
• Applicants for Graduate Research Teaching Fellowships must be confirmed in their PhD candidature, successful applicants will be in their second or third year of candidature with a minimum of 6 months EFT candidature remaining.
• In most cases, it is essential to have a minimum of an honours degree in a relevant discipline ( Please note: that if you are applying for a casual academic staff role in the Asia Institute or the School of Languages and Linguistics this criterion may not apply. Please contact the Program Convenor for clarification)
• Late applications will not be accepted unless an exceptional circumstance arises based on a school’s requirements. All casual academic staff selected need to have applied formally

Download position descriptions

Sessional Tutor Position Description

Graduate Research Teaching Fellowship Position Description

Discovery Teaching Associate Position Description

CTRS user guides

Create a user account in the CTRS

Lodging an application for a Casual academic role in the CTRS

Updating your profile and CV in the CTRS

Employee support

Casual Academic Staff are provided with resources and facilities to assist with undertaking their teaching responsibilities. These provisions vary across each School. The following information is provided to assist Casual Academic staff with the onboarding process, and to familiarise them with the facilities and resources available to them as an employee of a particular School within the Faculty of Arts.

• Accounts and passwords: activate your email or reset your password
• IT information
• Themis timecards
• Casual pay dates
• After Hours Building Access: Please note that after-hours building access is not generally provided to casual academic staff. All after-hours access requests must be endorsed by the School and is only provided if absolutely necessary
• Occupational Health and Safety Induction: Online TrainME training
• Desk Space: All Schools provide Casual Academics with designated hot-desk office space. Please contact the relevant School for further details
• Lockers: Some Schools provide lockers in designated hot-desk office space. Please contact the relevant School for further details
• Stationery: Please contact the relevant School for further details
• Lectern keys: Lectern keys for teaching spaces are not normally required, but will be available upon request. Please contact the relevant School for assistance
• Meeting /Consultation rooms: Please contact the relevant School for assistance
• Staff cards: Obtain or Replace a staff ID card
• Arts Foundations training information for sessional staff new to the Faculty of Arts
• If you have a question regarding an application for a sesssional tutoring position, please refer to the table below:

Other useful information

• Compliance Information for Casual Employees
• Faculty of Arts staff intranet
• Email Asia Institute
• Email School of Culture and Communication
• Email School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
• Email School of Languages and Linguistics
• Email School of Social and Political Sciences
• IT and Printer Support: +61 3 8344 0888
• Themis Support: +61 3 8344 0888
• Security: +61 3 8344 6666

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