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eResources/Databases for Art and Art History

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  • Academic Search Complete

    Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.  [Details]

  • America: History & Life

    Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada [Details]

  • Art & Architecture Complete

    This is a new eResource provided by NCLive.

    Art & Architecture Complete offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books.  [Details]

  • Art Abstracts

    Allows one user at a time.

    Art Abstracts provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.  [Details]

  • Art Index Retrospective

    Art Index Retrospective enables users to access over half a century of art literature with ease. In addition to the leading English-language art journals, Art Index Retrospective also covers a host of publications in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.  [Details]

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index

    Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.  [Details]

  • Historical Abstracts

    Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. [Details]

  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

    Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.  [Details]

  • Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    Contains electronic resources for the study and teaching of Medieval and Renaissance studies.  [Details]

  • JSTOR

    Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.  [Details]

    Tutorial:   JSTOR Tutorials

  • Oxford Art Online

    Allows one user at a time.

    Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location.  [Details]

  • Project MUSE

    Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.  [Details]

  • WorldCat

    Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. [Details]

  • Cambridge Journals Online

    Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.  [Details]

  • CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

    This database offers images, text and multimedia representing a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums. It highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covers the complete range of expressive forms.  [Details]

  • ClasePeriodica

    CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Contains bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.  [Details]

  • eHRAF Archaeology

    Provides a cross-cultural database of information on the world's prehistory, organized by archaeological traditions.  [Details]

    Tutorial:   eHRAF Tutorial

  • eHRAF World Cultures

    Provides a cross-cultural database of information on all aspects of cultural and social life, organized into cultures and ethnic groups.  [Details]

    Tutorials:

    eHRAF Tutorial

    eHRAF Video Tutorials

  • MasterFILE Complete

    This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922.  [Details]

  • MLA International Bibliography

    Literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. [Details]

  • Oxford Journals

    Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields. [Details]

  • Academic Search Complete

    Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.  [Details]

  • America: History & Life

    Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada [Details]

  • Art & Architecture Complete

    This is a new eResource provided by NCLive.

    Art & Architecture Complete offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books.  [Details]

  • Art Abstracts

    Allows one user at a time.

    Art Abstracts provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.  [Details]

  • Art Index Retrospective

    Art Index Retrospective enables users to access over half a century of art literature with ease. In addition to the leading English-language art journals, Art Index Retrospective also covers a host of publications in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.  [Details]

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index

    Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.  [Details]

  • Historical Abstracts

    Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. [Details]

  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

    Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.  [Details]

  • Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    Contains electronic resources for the study and teaching of Medieval and Renaissance studies.  [Details]

  • JSTOR

    Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.  [Details]

    Tutorial:   JSTOR Tutorials

  • Oxford Art Online

    Allows one user at a time.

    Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location.  [Details]

  • Project MUSE

    Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.  [Details]

  • WorldCat

    Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. [Details]

  • Cambridge Journals Online

    Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.  [Details]

  • CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

    This database offers images, text and multimedia representing a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums. It highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covers the complete range of expressive forms.  [Details]

  • ClasePeriodica

    CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Contains bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.  [Details]

  • eHRAF Archaeology

    Provides a cross-cultural database of information on the world's prehistory, organized by archaeological traditions.  [Details]

    Tutorial:   eHRAF Tutorial

  • eHRAF World Cultures

    Provides a cross-cultural database of information on all aspects of cultural and social life, organized into cultures and ethnic groups.  [Details]

    Tutorials:

    eHRAF Tutorial

    eHRAF Video Tutorials

  • MasterFILE Complete

    This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922.  [Details]

  • MLA International Bibliography

    Literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. [Details]

  • Oxford Journals

    Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields. [Details]

  • Bibliography of the History of Art

    BHA covers the current international literature on the history of art in Europe and the New World. BHA incorporates the complete contents of International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) and Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA).  [Details]

  • Electronic Journal Service (EJS)

    Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals. [Details]

  • IIPA Full Text

    There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users for this resource.

    International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text is a performing arts journal resource with nearly 350,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text, covering film, theatre and dance.

     [Details]

  • In the First Person

    An in-depth index of more than 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.
     [Details]

  • Intellect

    Intellect offers online access to several journals in the humanities. [Details]

  • PBS Video Collection

    You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.  [Details]

  • Readers' Guide Retrospective

    Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users.  [Details]


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