Art, Architecture and Photography Databases /Indexes
Database/ Index |
Description |
| Arts/Architecture/Photography POWERSEARCH | Searches following databases simultaneously:
Art Abstracts,
Art Index Retro for 1929-1984,
Academic Search Complete ,
Humanities International Index,
Essay & General Literature Index,
Humanities Abstracts,
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. How to Search This Database |
| ARTStor | Visual database that contains over 500,000 pictures, paintings, sculpture, photographs, architectural drawings, and designs. Derived from the artistic traditions of many eras and cultures, this material comes from museums, libraries, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. How to Search This Database |
| Periodicals Archive Online database is the new name of PCI Full Text---an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects. How to Search This Database | |
| PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century. Especially useful for scholarly book reviews. How to Search This Database | |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index | Part of ISI Web of Knowledge, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a broad multidisciplinary index to journals published since 1975 in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, etc. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching.A good place to start if you want to know which writers are citing a particular author. How to Search This Database |
| International Index to the Performing Arts | Indexes more than 200 performing arts journals and as well as biographical information, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, and reviews. Subjects include film, television, theater, ballet, opera, musical theater, puppetry, mime, rodeos, circuses, etc. Some material is full-text. This is a good place to begin researching film and television studies. Abstracts span back to 1998, and indexing begins as far back as 1864. How to Search This Database |
| Oxford Art Online | The new home of Grove Art Online, the Oxford Art Online database contains electronic versions of the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. The Oxford Art Online database also offers thousands of images from ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society, and numerous international art galleries and artists. |
| Grove Art Online | A major scholarly art database covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art, and contains more than 45,000 articles contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries. It is maintained with a regular update program to include current articles and bibliographies. Grove Art Online is part of the larger Oxford Art Online database, which also contains the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. |
Other Sources |
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An index (with abstracts) to over 1,700 periodicals in more than forty languages published since 1964. The most important source for articles on United States and Canadian cultural, social, economic, diplomatic, and military history, this database covers the periods from prehistory to the present and includes some full-text articles. For European and World history, see its counterpart Historical Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
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An index (with abstracts) to more than 2,000 journals published in over 80 countries in more than 50 languages. Fields include all branches of world history, including, political, diplomatic, religious, economic, social, cultural, and military history. Some full text is included. This is the best place to begin research in modern history (from 1450 to the present). For U.S. and Canadian history, use America: History and Life. How to Search This Database |
| Contains the catalog records of thousands of libraries worldwide and provides information on millions of books, newspapers, maps, periodicals, government documents, etc. One of the most important resources for determining which library owns a particular work. | |
| Compendex (Engineering Village Archive) | A comprehensive online archive of engineering research containing almost 10 million references with abstracts to over 5,000 engineering journals and technical reports. Engineering of all types is fully represented, including bioengineering, computer science and technology, electrical and chemical engineering, materials science, and nuclear, civil, mechanical, aerospace, and petroleum engineering. Coverage spans publications dating from 1884 to 1968. How to Search This Database |
| An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939. It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is the most important database for philosophy. How to Search This Database | |
| FRANCIS | Francis is created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. This multilingual, multidisciplinary database is especially useful for the humanities and social sciences. Francis covers thousands of journals, books, and conference papers in many languages. How to Search This Database |
Important Web Sources | |
| Mother of All Art History Links | The Website is sponsored by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan and provides links to Art History Departments in the United States, research resources, resources for visual collections, image collections and online art, online exhibitions, fine art schools and departments, art museums, textual and linguistic resources and finally new media art resources. |
| Website, The detailed timeline of Art History | |
| American Memory Project | Website, Sponsored by the Library of Congress |
Related Book Titles in McDermott Library | |
| Bibliography of the History of Art |
You will find this resource in the Reference Aisle 1B of the McDermott Library second floor. |
Dictionary of Art |
Second floor, Reference area -N31 .D5 1996 |
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