Research Resources: Subject Guides: Art

Contents

1. Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases
2. Subscription Image Collections
3. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks
4. Selected Online Resources

Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases

• Art Full Text
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
• Humanities Full Text
• ITER Bibliography
• International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• New York Times 1851-2007 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Subscription Image Collections

• ARTstor
• Bridgeman Art Library Archive--Images
• Oxford Art Online--Images

Dictionaries & Guides

• Credo Reference--Art
• Oxford Art Online, incorporating Grove Art Online
• Oxford Reference Online--Art & Architecture

Selected Online Resources for Art & Art History

ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Digital Resources

A joint project of the American Theological Library Association and the Association of Theological Schools offering access to digitized unique local collections. Items represented include woodcuts, photographs, slides, coins, maps, postcards, llithographs, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

Architecture.com

Online home of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), whose mission is to "further the cause of architecture in politics and culture, in the UK and internationally." Site includes RIBApix, an image library devoted to architecture.

Archives of American art

Supports the study of visual arts in America through digital access to thousands of photographs of artists and art-world figures, letters, sketchbooks, diaries, printed materials, ephemera, and other documents from the Smithsonian Institution's archives collections.

CAMEO: conservation and art material encyclopedia online

An electronic database that compiles, defines, and distributes technical information on terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation as an extension of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Finding Images on the Web: An annotated guide to multidisciplinary resources

Image resources chosen by Shadek-Fackenthal's Visual Resources division; coverage includes Art History, Architecture, Photography, Artists' Books, Humanities, Social Sciences, Area Studies, and Science.

Life Photo Archive Hosted by Google

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Nineteenth-century art worldwide

Free e-journal of 19th-century painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, architecture, and decorative art. Geographic coverage is extensive, and contents include scholarly, illustrated articles and book and exhibition reviews. Published by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, an affiliate of the College Art Association.

A Treasury of World's Fair Art & Architecture

Art- and architecture-related images, virtual tours, and essays from the World's Fair Collection at the Architecture Library, University of Maryland.

Visual Information Access, Harvard University Libraries

Web union catalog of visual resources representing Harvard's repositories (archives, museums, libraries, and other collections) and documenting "the arts, material culture, and social history." Some records allow access to larger-scale images that are adequate for teaching and research.

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