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Scope of the Database
Yarp provides detailed information about arts prizes, residencies, scholarships, grants and fellowships from around Australia. From the smallest regional arts prizes right through to the largest, high profile prizes, prize monies vary from $50 to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth.
There are currently 1262 records in the database. Each record includes prize opening date, prize closing date, exhibition date, prize pool total, entry fee costs, whether prize is acquisitive or not, prize website, entry restrictions, details of the prize including breakdown of individual prize categories and dollar values for each, medium/s of prize, genre of prize, organisation contact details, venue contact details, individual contact details where available.You will have access to all of this information as a Premium subscriber.
Basic Search
Yarp searches by keyword in basic search mode. Just type in what you are looking for. Basic Search does not use boolean searching (and/or/not). Use Advanced Search for boolean searching.
Some search examples:
- Searching for the term indigenous will bring up all prizes with the word indigenous in the title or description of the prize. Try also searching for aboriginal or aboriginal and torres strait islander to find other relevant indigenous prizes.
- Search by prize name or title e.g. Helen Lempriere
- Search for prizes by medium e.g printmaking will find all prizes with all instances of the word printmaking in the title or description.
Problems? The most common search problem is misspelling. Make sure you have spelled what you are looking for correctly.
Advanced Search
If you have not subscribed for Premium Access, you can do limited advanced searching. This includes the following:
- At least one of the words e.g. aboriginal
- All the words e.g. aboriginal and torres strait islander
- As a phrase e.g. Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award
- Without the words e.g. torres strait islander
- Exclude $0 prize values - this will exclude all prizes that don't have a dollar value attached to the award. These are mostly residencies.
Please note, common 2 and 3 letter words are filtered out of all search criteria except for the field "as a phrase" when using advanced search. Results are ordered by relevance. The scope of relevance increases as you employ more than one search field in Advanced Search.
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Differences Between Premium vs Public Searches
All public searches are limited to 30 results. This limit is lifted for Subscribers. If you have subscribed for Premium Access you can also limit your searches using the following:
- Exclude records with closing date already passed
- Only show records with a valid web page
- By medium
- By genre
- By entry closing month
- By State e.g. NSW
You will need to be logged in to take advantage of the Premium search service.
Not Receiving Emails
The 'Welcome' email that is sent when first signing up has your username and password
for logging into YARP. The email is sent as soon as you select a subscription package.
If you do not receive your Welcome email, nor any other emails from YARP, it is likely
that you have spam filters appropriating our emails.
Check to ensure artprizedatabase.com.au is added to your spam white-lists and contact us to request the email again.
If your monthly prize digest email doesn't arrive, your filters for state and prize value may have left no suitable prizes to inform you about. Try logging into your account and un checking one or two prize filters.
Logon Problems
The username and password given in your 'Welcome Email' are case sensitive. Please try
to copy and paste them into the logon fields to confirm that the problem isn't typographical
error. We find that some subscribers assume the usernames and passwords aren't case
sensitive; but they are. After we test logging into your account using a few browsers
such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, the account proves to be OK in 99% of cases.
The only requirement for logging in to YARP is to enable cookies. Everything else works as a regular web page. If you're having trouble logging on, please clear your cookies and ensure that you allow artprizedatabase.com.au to set a cookie on your computer.
Possible causes of software blocking cookies are Internet Explorer Security settings, or anti-spy ware software such as Nortons Internet Security. Adding artprizedatabase.com.au to your firewall will only work if your firewall is blocking cookies. If you try to load the logon page without cookies, a warning should show at the bottom of the page indicating as such.
To find out if your computer security software is blocking cookies, use another computer without so much security software to log on. If successful, you'll have to determine which program on your computer is the problem.
If you are using a workstation in large organisation, please ask your IT support people how you can enable cookies for a website.
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