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Databases for Art

September 26, 2025 • 9:12 am

Art - Best Bets

  • Art Full Text
    Includes nearly 170 full-text periodicals, and indexes thousands of English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, dissertations, and art reproductions. More info
  • 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. More info
  • Artstor
    More than two million art images for non-profit educational use from numerous art, architecture, and anthropology collections. See More Info for a collection list. More info
  • Design and Applied Arts Index
    Journal articles, exhibition reviews, and news items about all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. More info

Art - Also Useful

  • Academic Search Complete
    Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines. More info
  • Archive of Americana
    Now part of Readex AllSearch. Features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more. More info
  • Art and Architecture Complete
    Full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books in the fields of art, art history, architecture, interior and landscape design, and more. More info
  • Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
    Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more. More info
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
    Index of articles on architecture and design from American and international journals along with publications of professional associations and major international serials on architecture and design. More info
  • Grove Dictionary of Art
    Limited to 11 simultaneous users. Oxford Art Online contains the full text of the The Grove Dictionary of Art with over 45,000 articles and thousands of images. More info
  • JSTOR
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • Oxford Art Online
    Limited to 11 simultaneous users. Contains the full text of The Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. More info
  • Project Muse
    Provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more, in the humanities and social sciences. More info
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers (1764-2005). More info
  • Wiley Online Library Books
    Featuring over 20,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions, and landmark book series. More info

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Kelly C. Rhodes
Kelly C. Rhodes