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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. Modeled after JSTOR, ARTstor draws its content from libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, and invidividual scholars.
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Humanities Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts contains abstracts (summaries) of feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. It indexes nearly 600 journals covering a variety of subjects in the humanities, including philosophy, film, folklore, religion, music, and the performing arts.
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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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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Worldcat is a catalog of materials found in hundreds of libraries throughout the world. There are currently over 62 million records in 400 languages extending back to as early as 1,000 B.C. WorldCat is updated daily.
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Reference Materials
Atlas of World Art - G1046.E1 O9 2004
Spans the centuries from the time of hunters and gatherers (40-50,000 B.C.) to the present day.
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Bibliography of the History of Art (Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art) - Z5937 .B53
Successor to RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art), this rich resource covers the current literature of European art from late Antiquity to the present, and American art from the European discoveries to the present.
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Dictionary of Art - N31 .D5 1996
A comprehensive 34-volume set with more than 45,000 entries on worlwide topics, ranging from prehistory through the art of the 1990s.
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Encyclopedia of World Art - N31 .E53
Published in the late 1950s, this 17-volume work covers the arts of all times, places, and cultural environments.
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Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture - N5610 .G76
A new addition to our Oxford Digital Reference Shelf collection. This reference tool encompasses over four thousand years of artistry and innovation and spans every art form, medium, and civilization from Cycladic,
Minoan, Helladic, and Etruscan art to the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists - N6505 .M59 2007
Featuring 945 alphabetically arranged entries, this is an indispensable
biographical and critical guide to American art and artists from colonial times to
contemporary postmodernism. The dictionary also provides entries on people connected with the American art scene and notable American institutions.
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Short Guide to Writing About Art - N7476 .B37 2005
This guide will help you improve your your writing about art by giving
you ideas about works of art and approaches to art. It also provides
general principles of good writing and short models of good writing.
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Web Sources
AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit organization of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia.
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
The AAT is one of three Getty Vocabulary Databases. It contains more than 125,000 terms covering fine art,
architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material
culture.
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Art History Resources on the Web
Covers the history of Western and non-Western art. Recommends research resources and has a "Museums and Galleries" section arranged by country.
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Artchive
Over 2000 images on 200 world artists and their works.
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Artcyclopedia: the Fine Arts Search Engine
A digital image directory which indexes over 8,000 famous painters, ssculptors, and photographers at art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
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ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
Among its more than 3,600 terms covering all aspects of art, ArtLex provides basic definitions of art terms, numerous illustrations, quotations, and pronunciation notes, and links to other Web resources. The site defines more than 1,700,000 words found in more than 200 dictionaries and glossaries.
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AskART
Dedicated to the creation and maintenance of the world's most comprehensive, centralized database about American artists. Contains detailed information on nearly 30,000 American artists.
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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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Mark Harden's Artchive
Individual artists' pages provide biographical overviews on the life and work of the artist and list available images.
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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
artdaily.com
The first newspaper on the Internet devoted to art. Dates from 1996.
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ArtNews Online
"ARTnewsletter is a timely, topical, biweekly report on the art market."
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ArtsJournal
ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of arts and cultural news and features. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications.
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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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