Databases by Subject
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Databases for Art
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
- Coverage: 1826 - current
- Over one million photographs provided by the Associated Press.
- Art Abstracts
- Coverage: 1929 - current
- Indexes hundreds of international art journals. Abstracts and some fulltext back to 1984, citations for earlier articles. This is a combined search of Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective.
- Art Index Retrospective
- Coverage: 1929 - current
- Indexes hundreds of international art journals. Abstracts and some fulltext back to 1984, citations for earlier articles. This is a combined search of Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective.
- ARTstor
- Coverage: Prehistory - current
- Hundreds of thousands of digital images with descriptive information covering painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, architecture, and design, as well as many other forms of worldwide visual culture. Save groups of images for later use in ARTstor, or download or print to use in class projects, presentations, and papers. First-time users must register for an account from a computer on campus.
- Bibliography Of The History Of Art
- Coverage: 1973 - current
- Covers Western art from Antiquity to the present. Indexes more sources than Art Abstracts, but does not cover Asian art, and does not have full text articles.
- CAA.reviews
- Coverage: 1999 - current
- Critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies. Published by the College Art Association.
- The Encyclopaedia Of Islam
- Coverage: historical
- Offers basic searching of the full-text of nearly 12,000 pages of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the print edition.
- Encyclopedia Of Aesthetics
- Provides coverage of historical accounts and critical discussions of aesthetics. Part of Oxford Art Online
- The Grove Dictionary Of Art Online
- Coverage: N/A
- Comprehensive online reference source for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. The online version of the Grove Dictionary of Art (Tutt Reference, N31.D5 1996). Now part of Oxford Art Online.
- Humanities International Complete
- Coverage: 1929 - current
- A comprehensive humanities database, with almost 500 full text titles and indexing and abstracting for more than 1,700 titles. Subject areas include (but are not limited to) literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture-oriented and multi-disciplinary humanities titles with some coverage going back as far as 1929. This database replaces Humanities Abstracts.
- Index Islamicus
- Coverage: 1906 - current
- Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings about Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
- National Network For Artist Placement
- Over 700 organizations and more than 2,500 current listings, updated monthly, weekly, daily, in every art discipline: arts institutions, dance companies, museums, galleries, filmmakers, theatre companies, and music organizations throughout the nation. This title replaces National Directory of Arts Internships. (See reference librarian for username and password.)
- RILA: Art Literature International Dialog Database 191
- Coverage: 1975 - 1989
- Provides references to books, essay collections, periodical articles, etc. Covers literature on all aspects of Western art from Late Antiquity (4th century) to the present. (Database 191 on Dialog--see reference librarian for username and password.) Continued by BHA.