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Reference Book Center at Netlibrary                             Art & Architecture at Oxford Reference

 

Art Journals as found in Smith Library

 


 

Fine Arts Databases

 

Articles and Books:

 

Arts and Humanities Search -- Abstracts only.
Article index database with scholarly titles in art, literature, history and religion.

 

Images:

 

ArtStor

A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and the tools to actively use those images, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.

 

CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museums via NCLive-- Full-image

 

Britannica Images -- Full-text.
Encyclopedia Britannica includes many images and examples of the works of artist. Most can be copied and inserted into Power Point and Word documents.

General and Art-Related Databases

JSTOR Arts and Sciences
Full text access for 39 art and art history journals, and additional journals in many related disciplines.

 

Research Library from ProQuest -- Full-text.

Mostly full-text and full image database. Includes many magazines and journals in art and related areas.

 

OneFile on InfoTrac -- Full-text

Covers over 42 million articles on a vareity of subjects. Try a Subject Guide Search (at top) for an artist (use the last name first Klee, Paul) and then click on the article count. Next look at the articles. Articles with Text and Graphics will be listed.

 

America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
Provides citations for articles on topics in history. Useful for biographical and historical discussions of art. Use Journal Finder to locate the full text.

 

Academic Search Premier on Ebscohost via NCLive
Primarily scholarly journal sources on a wide variety of subjects.

 

NetLibrary via NCLive -- Full-text.
Search and review electronic books at this site -- 45,000 titles.

 


 

Web Resources for Art

 

ArtCyclopedia

Image Finder

Internet Movie Database

 

Art Galleries

The National Gallery of Art. The North Carolina Museum of Art
Muse d'Orsay The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego Web Museum Search

 

 

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12/10/2007