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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
Art Abstracts
Art Abstracts includes information compiled by specialists in all fields of art to provide an international perspective. It indexes nearly 400 major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as a number of periodicals in European languages.
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ARTstor
ARTstor is an image collection which documents artistic traditions across all times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture.
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Hekman Digital Archive
The HDA contains digital collections related to Calvin College & Calvin Theological Seminary in the academic departments of Art, Biology, CAS, and History.
- Art: images relating to Art History as well as instructional aids including images of famous
buildings around the world, fiber arts, maps, and ceramics.
- Biology: images of seedless plants, gymnosperms, and
angiosperms.
- CAS: images of costumes through the
ages and theater buildings from various countries.
- History: images of life in 11 Turkish cities from Adana to
Tarsus and China through the ages.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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Web Sources
Intute: Arts and Humanities
A major UK web portal for the finest Arts and Humanities web resources for education and research. More than 18,000 sites have been selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists and made available through an intuitive search interface.
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Librarians Index to the Internet: Arts & Humanities
Something for everyone here, from aesthetics to textiles. Slightly greater emphasis on collections, galleries, exhibits, etc. based in California.
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SkyscraperPage
Beautiful architectural drawings of thousands of tall buildings around
the globe, contributed by members of the SkyscraperPage Illustrators
Association, can be found on this site. Users can browse by city,
country, or continent. The site includes completed buildings, as well as those proposed, under
construction, canceled, or destroyed. Drawings are initially displayed
with basic building data. A lively discussion forum is also provided.
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Voice of the Shuttle - Art
Voice of the Shuttle is a long-standing subject directory for the humanities, created by an English professor in 1995.
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WorldArt Web Kiosk
A huge image database From California State University of over 35,000 records.
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Periodicals
ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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