Art

 

Article Databases - Most Useful

Art Index Retrospective & Art Full Text

Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database indexing more than 1,100 arts and humanities journals, as well as relevant references from over 6,800 science and social sciences periodicals from 1975-

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

Contains records describing the literature of art, including books, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and journal articles in more than 2,500 periodicals. Coverage ended in 2008, but is continued in the International Bibliography of Art (IBA).

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes index records created from 2008 to the present. For previous indexing, see the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).

Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Dictionary of Art)

Provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.

Article Databases - Also Useful

AATA: Art & Archaelogy Technical Abstracts

Formerly the print publication Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts, an online database of abstracts of worldwide literature related to the management and conservation of international material cultural heritage from 1932 -

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. ABM is used by students and researchers around the world to pinpoint publications and writings relevant to their area of study. Its extensive classification system and comprehensive abstracts make it an ideal source for information on artists, art movements, art history and theory, design, photography, and crafts.

Avery Architectural Index

Contains records describing articles in over 1,000 architectural periodicals in the fields of architecture and related disciplines.

Biography Resource Center + the Complete Marquis Who's Who

Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

CAMIO

Digitized library of art works from ancient Greece to the present. Also called Art Museum Image Consortium Library

Francis

Contains records from more than 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics.

Humanities and Social Sciences Full Text (plus Retrospective)

Periodical coverage in Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984) includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

Index of Christian Art

The Index of Christian Art is the largest database of medieval art in existence with full-text records for over 23,000 works of art dating from early apostolic times to A.D. 1400. There are over 20,000 bibliographic records and over sixty thousand images in this database.

Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals

Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period.

ITER bibliography

The Iter bibliography addresses many aspects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance--including archaeology, art, history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and history of science--covering the years 400 - 1700. It provides citations for books, journal material published since 1842 (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies), and citations for essays in books published since 1993.

JSTOR

A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.

SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs

Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held.

eJournals

Art Journals at FSU

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The directory contains 350 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The directory resides at Lund University and is supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

Oxford University Press

Online fulltext access to journals published by the Oxford University Press.

Project MUSE

Provides access to the full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture and society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine and health, philosophy, politics, religion, science, sociology, etc. Coverage varies according to title (1993-) Also called Project Muse.  ( http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals Mirror server if link above is not working.)

eBooks

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. This includes over 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800. This online collection is divided into seven subject areas: history and geography; social science and fine arts; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; and reference.

netLibrary

netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books. Language may be limited to Spanish. netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books.

Oxford Art and Architecture Dictionaries

Find art terms, biographies of artists, and entries covering all periods of Western architectural history.

 

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