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- Gov - pan-national government bodies and country-based agencies who promote culture internationally
- Policy - databases and other resources providing information on cultural policies across the world
- Observe - cultural research organisations, including many who specialise in cultural policy research
- Statistics - sources of statistical data on culture or areas relevant to the cultural sector
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Acronyms, Glossaries and Templates
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)
Bibliographies & Catalogues
See also the organisations listed at Observe or Policy as many of these provide their own publications online
International
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
Australia
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)
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)
Fokus (The Austrian society for cultural economics and policy studies. The mission of FOKUS is to provide a forum for presentations and discussions of current research and recent developments in cultural policy as well as in the academic field).
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)
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 (the observatory is since 2008 discontinued but some basic information is still available through this link)
Ministry of Culture for Ontario
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
Centre for Communication Research - Hong Kong
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)
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)
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)
