Databases for Art, Architecture & Photography
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Key Databases
- Grove Art Online
- Full-text articles, illustrations, index, bibliographies, and links to color images of art works, including comprehensive coverage of painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the present
- Art Abstracts
- Indexes periodicals, exhibition listings, museum bulletins, yearbooks, interviews, competition and award notices, and book and film reviews in more than 250 key international, mostly English-language journals in the visual arts, 1984 to present
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
- Indexes and abstracts periodicals, books, exhibition catalogs, conference proceedings, and bibliographies in the traditional fine arts, decorative and applied arts, industrial design and architecture, popular and folk art, photography, and performance art, 1975 to present
Additional Databases
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- ArticleFirst
- Indexes table of contents pages of more than 12,000 journals in all fields, 1990 to present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Indexes over 1,000 scholarly journals from the arts and humanities. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1975 to present
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Full text of the complete Encyclopædia Britannica and Britannica Book of the Year
- American National Biography
- Full-text from 1999 edition, including nearly 17,500 biographies of men and women whose lives have shaped the American nation, with essays, bibliographies, illustrations and web links; subjects must have died prior to 1996
- Dissertation Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions (selectively covers Canadian, British and European dissertations, and masters theses), 1861 to present
See also Current Research @ Brandeis University for current Brandeis theses, 1960-present, with downloadable full text for 1996-present
- JSTOR
- Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- Project Muse
- Full text access to over 160 journal titles, the bulk of which are produced by university presses
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
- Indexes close to 500,000 records of archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies located throughout North America
- ArchiveGrid
- (To exit you must use the database Exit command; do not use the Back button)
Indexes and provides access to over 700,000 collection records and nearly 30,000 collection finding guides for archival resources
Multidisciplinary Databases
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)
- Database of full text, reference material and Web links to French and Italian literature, including French texts, Italian texts prior to 1375, pamphlets and periodicals of the 1848 French Revolution, French and French-English dictionaries, the French Bible, and parallel Latin, English and German Bibles
- ATLA Religion Database
- Indexes journal articles, books and dissertations on all aspects of world religions, 1949 to present
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Indexes western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on the social sciences and humanities pertaining to all parts of Asia, 1971 to present
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- Indexes and provides full text to 600 journals, newsletters and reports relating to women's studies, 1992 to present
- L'Année Philologique
- Indexes publications covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity. Based on L'Année Philologique print volumes 40-70. Supercedes the CD Database of Classical Bibliography and is used in conjunction with earlier printed volumes. Includes Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, religion, arts, mythology, music, science, archaeology, early Christian texts, papyrology, and epigraphy, 1969-1999
- Encyclopaedia Judaica
- (Main & Science Library Clusters Only)
- Full text of 1972 edition including recent Year Books, Decennial volumes, and updated articles pertaining to major recent events
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Indexes and provides full text of over 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the American ethnic press, 1960 to present, starting dates vary
- GLBT Life
- Indexes popular and scholarly journals, newspapers, books, dissertations, web sites, and multi-media publications concerning the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community, 1997 (and earlier) to present
- Handbook of Latin American Studies Online
- Selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America in the humanities and social sciences from the Library of Congress. Includes books, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and electronic resources. 1935-present, including contents of future print volumes.
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
- Indexes articles on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hispanics in the United States, 1970 to present
- Historical Abstracts
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on European and world history, excluding the United States and Canada, 1955 to present
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Indexes articles and reviews on the Middle Ages and Renaissance from over 1,114 journals, and provides other scholarly resources, 1843 to present
- Victorian Database Online
- Indexes books, articles and dissertations on the British Victorian period (1830 - 1914), published from 1945 to present
- Women's Studies International
- Indexes journal literature, books, and mixed media from 10 women's studies databases, 1972 to present
