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Subject: Fine Art & Graphic Arts

Key Databases:

Art Full Text

Provides indexing to art journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.  Full-text links are available for some citations.

ARTstor

Includes nearly one milliion images with more to be added. Major collections include: images from the Library of Congress, the Peabody Museum at Harvard, the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, the Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection, Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution and the QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture.

Grove Art Online

Online access to the 41,000 articles in the Grove Dictionary of Art.  Includes information on painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, and graphic and decorative arts from prehistory to the 1990s.  ALso links to the Bridgeman Art Library of art images.

Related Databases

Academic Search Premier

This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.  Searchable cited references are also included for 1,000 titles.

ARTBibliographies Modern

Indexes journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews relating to modern and contemporary art.


Art Full Text

Provides indexing to art journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.  Full-text links are available for some citations.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Provides indexing to more than 2,500 U.S. and international journals relating to architecture and design.

Francis

Provides indexing to more than 4200 journals in the humanities and social sciences.  In addition, Francis covers relevant books, book chapters, conference papers, and exhibition catalogs.  One of the strengths of this database is its coverage of art history.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Indexes approximately 3,500 journals including 2,100 peer-reviewed titles.  Many citations lead directly to full-text links.  Coverage goes back to 1980.

Grove Art Online

Online access to the 41,000 articles in the Grove Dictionary of Art.  Includes information on painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, and graphic and decorative arts from prehistory to the 1990s.  ALso links to the Bridgeman Art Library of art images.  

Humanities Full Text

Indexes articles pertaining to a wide variety of humanities-related subjects including classical studies, linguistics, and literary criticism.  Searches may be limited to peer reviewed journals.  Coverage is from 1984 to the present.

 

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective

Provides access to the older volumes of the Humanities Index.  Coverage is from 1907-1984.

Index of Christian Art

Produced by Princeton University, this database indexes early Christian and medieval art objects to the year 1400.

Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals

Provides indexing to the contents of 42 art journals published in the United States during the 19th Century.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition

A large multi-disciplinary resource indexing research on a wide variety of subjects.  Many citations link to the full-text of the article.  Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1982.

Web of Science

Includes Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.  One of the most comprehensive databases with indexing to more than 5900 journals.   This resource may be best known for its extensive forward and backward links to cited references.  Also links to full-text articles when available through USF subscriptions. 1900-date

 

E-journal collections

 

Blackwell Synergy

Searchable access to the journals from Blackwell Publishing including several titles relating to art including Art History, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, International Journal of Art & Design Education. And Journal of Architectural Education.

JSTOR

This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals.  Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. A wide selection of disciplines are included.

Project Muse

Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities

 


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