Databases for Art
Best Bets
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| Art Full Text |
Art Abstracts indexes over 400 English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Includes nearly 120 titles in full text. |
1984-present |
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| Art Index Retrospective |
Covering content for more than 55 years of art journalism, this retrospective resource includes articles, interviews, reviews and much more from over 600 publications. |
1929-1984 |
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| Design and Applied Arts Index |
Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items. |
1973-present |
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| ARTstor Digital Library |
The collection currently contains over one million images, including the following collections: |
Prehistory to the present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Archive of Americana |
The Archive of Americana features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, essential collections of U.S. |
1639-1980 |
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| Art and Architecture Complete |
Art and Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. |
1937-present |
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| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals |
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, surveying over seven hundred American and international journals |
1934-present |
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| CAMIO |
A growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. |
Varies |
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| Grove Dictionary of Art |
The Grove Dictionary of Art, part of Oxford Art Online, contains over 45,000 articles compiled over a period of 15 years. |
Prehistory to present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| Project Muse |
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. |
1996-present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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Even More
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index |
Provides indexing for 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. |
1975-present |
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