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| RECOMMENDED DATABASES & INDEXES |
Archive Grid - An important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
Art Abstracts -
- A bibliographic database covering topics such as advertising art, antiques, architecture, computers, fashion, graphics, photography, television, textiles, and video from periodicals published throughout the world. Contains links to full text.
Art Index Retrospective -
- Covers the following subjects from 1929 to 1984: advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, nonwestern art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles.
ARTBibliographies Modern -
- 1974 to the present. ARTbibliographies Modern covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art (19th century to the present), as well as photography (1839 to the present).
ARTstor -
- A searchable repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data. The collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Before you use ARTstor from home, please make sure to turn off any pop-up blockers and enable cookies on your computer.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals -
- Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.
Bibliography of the History of Art -
- Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) -
- The leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards.
Design Arts Retrospective (DAR) -
- The retrospective of Design and Applied Arts Index, provides broad, international coverage on a wide range of subjects in the fields of design. This database includes a particular emphasis on European publications.
Design ProFILES - The most comprehensive collection of profiles in design and design-related fields. It provides information about more than 8,000 designers and design-related organizations that were influential in the 20th century world of design, including over 1,000 female designers. Covers the years 1903 to 1986 with some sources back to 1894.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) -
- Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
Ebsco Academic Search Premier -
- Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Fashion, Costume and Culture -
- Provides facts and information about the cultural, religious and social implications of human decoration and adornment throughout history, with a particular emphasis on the decades of the 20th century. In 500 entries, detailed information about clothing, hairstyles, tattoos, jewelry, body piercing, feet binding and other types of fashion or style is examined. Additionally, entries explain the fashion or style within the context of the traditions, customs, rituals or practices it relates to, as well as its significance to society or culture.
Grove Art Online (included in Oxford Art Online) -
- Covers all the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990's with fully searchable text, thousands of image links and constant updates.
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals -
- The sole index of 42 art journals pubilshed in the United States during the 19th century.
JSTOR -
- A backfile of core journals in the arts and sciences, JSTOR contains millions of pages in PDF format searchable through JSTOR itself or through the appropriate subject indexes.
LexisNexis Academic -
- Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
New York Times From 1861-2006 -
- From ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Searchable by page image and text and images. Click on the arrow in the Database search box and choose News – The Historical New York Times.
Oxford Art Online -
- A gateway that allows users to search Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics simultaneously or individually.
Project MUSE -
- With well over 100 journals in full-text, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others, searchable through Project Muse itself, or through the appropriate subject indexes.
WorldCat -
- Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records.
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