ART461: Art, History, and the Museum
A research guide for Professor Aleci's Fall 2019 ART461 course, Art, History, and the Museum.
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Museum Studies Journals
Journals at F&M
To search for journals beyond this list, you can use Ulrichsweb, an international reference tool that contains information on journal publications, and is updated weekly.
NOTE: The links below will take you to one instance of the journal - some have multiple access points. To find other access points, search for the journal title in quotations in DISCOVER.
- Curator: the Museum Journal
- Available online from 1958 to present.
- International Journal of the Inclusive Museum
- Available online from 2011 to present.
- Journal of Curatorial Studies
- Available online from 2012 to present.
- Journal of Museum Education: Roundtable Reports
- Available via Art & Architecture Source (link above) from July 2014 to September 2018.
- Available via JSTOR from 1985 to 2011.
- Journal of the History of Collections
- Available online from 1996 to present.
- Museum
- Available in print from 1948 to 1957; no online access.
- Museum and Society
- Available online from 2003 to present.
- Museum Anthropology
- Available from 1986 to present.
- Museum International
- Available online from 1998 to 2010.
- Museums & Social Issues
- Available online from 2012 to 2018.
Journals NOT at F&M
The following titles are core journals in the field of Museum Studies, but which we do not currently subscribe to at F&M. For access to articles in these journals, submit an interlibrary loan request.
- Collections: a Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
- Informal Learning Review
- Museum Management and Curatorship
- Open Museum Journal
- Freely online from 2000, no new content since 2006.
Open Access Journals & Magazines
The below list of open access journals in museology comes from this University of Toronto library guide.
- Archives & Museum Informatics (1987-1996)
- British Museum Technical Research Bulletin
- CLS Journal of Museum Studies
- Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage -- Articles in both English & Italian
- CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship / CRM / CRM Bulletin (1978-2011)
- Exhibition / Exhibitionist (last 2 issues are partial open access, the rest are fully open access)
- Folklife Center News
- ICOM News
- Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
- Journal of Interpretation Research -- Current year, with archive of issues 2 years and older
- Journal of Natural Science Collections -- Current year not available, past years free
- Museum Anthropology Review: A Peer-Reviewed Journal of Museum and Material Culture Studies
- The Museum Scholar
- Science Museum Group Journal
- Stedelijk Studies
- Theory and Practice: The Emerging Museum Professionals Journal
Reference Resources
Art & Art History
Look here for background information on artists, art movements, and periods.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowAccess point for Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference resources.
- Oxford Reference: Art & Architecture This link opens in a new windowAccess point for 10 dictionaries and "companions" for design, contemporary art, photographs, gardens, and landscape architecture.
Anthropology & Archaeology
General Reference
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowFeatures thousands of entries published in Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Individual Oxford titles to which we subscribe may be found on the Databases - By Subject pages.
Databases
Art & Art History Databases
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowArticles and other text materials from a variety of art publications.
- Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new windowCovers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
- International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new windowArticles and other text materials about European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers scholarship since 2008. Covers scholarship since 2008. (Use BHA for pre-2008 scholarship.)
Interdisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
- JStor This link opens in a new windowA collection of full-text articles from over 3000 scholarly journals, many dating from the nineteenth-century to the last 4 or 5 years. A growing number of titles are available through the current issues, as part of their "Current Scholarship Program". Select Advanced Search to strategically search amongst 45 disciplines. Choose PDF from within JStor to properly view and print articles. For convenience, JStor is now searchable on Facebook.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides access to scholarly journals and eBooks in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Dates of coverage varies per title.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowIndexes articles from English-language magazines and academic journals in a wide range of interdisciplinary fields. Covers 1907 to 1984.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowClarivate Analytics' premier citation databases in the sciences (physical, life and social) and arts & humanities. Search for articles that cite a known author or work or by standard search queries. Covers 1864 to the present.
History Databases
- America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowDefinitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, and also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758-1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829-1922).
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowComprehensive international historical coverage (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. Features article (+ some book) indexing from 1955 to the present.
Anthropology Databases
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowThis resource is the combination of Anthropology Index and Anthropological Literature. Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Covers over 2500 journals, 19th century to the present. Updated quarterly.
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowDeveloped by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings anthropological material online to scholars and the public.