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Recommended Databases: Art and Design

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ARTbibliographies Modern
Covers current literature of modern art, photography and design. MORE DETAILS...

1974+

Art Full Text via WilsonWeb
Covers the world of the arts such as art history, graphic arts, interior design, architecture, video and more. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1997+

Art Index Retrospective via WilsonWeb
Spanning 55 years of art journalism from around the globe from 1929 through 1984. MORE DETAILS...


1929-1984

Design & Applied Arts Index
An international index to present design and applied arts journals. MORE DETAILS...


1973+
additional databases

AMICO Library has been replaced by CAMIO
CAMIO— Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources. MORE DETAILS...

Arts & Humanities Search via FirstSearch
Online version ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines and more. MORE DETAILS...

1980+

ARTstor
A rich digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.  MORE DETAILS...

Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
Includes the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN), and the online version of Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts. MORE DETAILS...

CAMIO
CAMIO— Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources. MORE DETAILS...

Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS...

1998+
Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.

The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS...

ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks

Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Access to 880 images from the 10th edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Harcourt, 1996). Useful to those taking the course, Art and Civilization. MORE DETAILS...

Grove Dictionary of Art Online
The 34-volume Dictionary of Art is now online. Covers all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s.MORE DETAILS...

Humanities Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and TV and radio programs.MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1995+

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MasterFile Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+

MLA Bibliography
Covers literature, languages, linguistics, folklore and provides over one million citations for items from journals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.


1963+
Research Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.MORE DETAILS...

1971+

Sirs Renaissance
Select full-text articles covering cultures, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. MORE DETAILS...


1992+

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