Research & Subject Guides: Art: Databases

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Oxford Art Online
Fulltext. Includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

NOTE: We do not subscribe to content from the Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
Art Abstracts is an art research database providing high-quality indexing and abstracts for hundreds of national and international art journals, plus thousands of art dissertations. The resource covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, film and architecture. It includes indexing and abstracts for nearly 700 periodicals (including more than 370 peer-reviewed journals), more than 14,000 art dissertations, and indexing for more than 220,000 indexed art reproductions.

NOTE: This resource is an upgrade to and replaces Art Index.
ARTstor
Archive of 550,000 high-quality, digitized images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Images may be downloaded and manipulated in customized mini-collections. Also searches for images in JSTOR's collection of scholarly articles.
Academic Search Complete
Date coverage varies, back to 1887. Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Covers over 6100 fulltext journals, 5100 peer reviewed journals, and indexing for over 10,000 journals. Non-journal publications are also indexed.
JSTOR
Coverage begins with the first issue of a journal, some as early as the 1600s, and continues up until 1-to-5 years ago. An online archive of core scholarly journals in most fields of study. Comprised of high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Not a source for recent articles.
Dissertations & Theses Global
Fulltext and citations. Contains 1.2 million full-text dissertations, including most dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Includes 2.7 million citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day.
Project MUSE
Date coverage varies, mostly current. Fulltext access to over 600 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine & Health, as well as some titles in Science, Technology, and Mathematics.

Access Note: SBU only subscribes to some titles in this collection

Non-SBU Databases on the Web

American Museum of Natural History Research Library

Art on Film Online

Artcyclopedia

British Museum Collections

d'art

Digital Archive of American Architecture

Europeana

Great Buildings Collection

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web

New York Public Library

Mother of all Art & Art History Links

Smithsonian Images

WorldImages

Spotlight on ArtStor

ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Users in a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance Studies, and more, will find it useful. Very high quality, annotated images can be searched and browsed by collection, artist, date and title, sorted, printed, zoomed, saved, shared, organized, made into slide shows, downloaded, exported and inserted into research papers.

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