LibGuides: ART: Art History: Databases

Key Databases

ARTstor
The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is the access point for the Grove Dictionary of Art and other reference resources dealing with art. PLEASE NOTE: Our subscription is limited to three users. When you're finished, please log out using the "Logout" button in the upper right corner!
JSTOR
Use this database to locate full-text articles from scholarly journals. Important: JSTOR is an initiative to store the full-text of important journals in a secure environment. Issues for the current 3-5 years are not available. Subjects cover all aspects of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Academic Search Complete

Use this multi-disciplinary database to locate full text articles appearing in scholarly journals, including thousands of peer-reviewed titles.
Arts & Humanities Database
Provides access to full-text articles on applied arts, cultural studies, and other related topics.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a database containing citations to articles and other sources in all areas of knowledge. (The database doesn't include full text, but links to full text if we have access.)

Bibliography of the History of ART (BHA) and Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'art
The Getty Museum provides free access to BHA and RILA. These citation databases cover material published between 1975 and 2007. They are not being updated.

Google Scholar

Related Databases

America: History & Life with Full Text
Use this database to locate journal articles and parts of books dealing with U.S. and Canadian history, area studies and current affairs literature. Subject coverage includes history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest, and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.
Credo Reference
Use this database to search the online version of hundreds of reference books in a broad range of subjects, including general and specialized dictionaries, handbooks and encyclopedias. Credo Reference helps you find authoritative answers fast.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis)
Use this database to locate the full-text of current and back issues of major newspapers, journals, newsletters, trade journals and news sources from around the world and the full-text of legal materials such as court cases, legislation, statutes, regulations, law reviews, and more.
NewsBank: America's News
NewsBank has thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. Explore current and archived news articles and obituaries to pinpoint information from primary sources at the local, state, regional, national and international levels.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection
Use this database to locate the full-text of journals in the Standard Package of Project Muse. Subjects include humanities, arts, and social sciences.
US Newsstream
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers.

Journals and Peer Review

Modern Art

Wassily Kandinsky "Inner Alliance" 1929 Photographer: Dudva

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Databases

What are databases and why you need them

Selected Journals

ART BULLETIN - Research articles on all periods of art

ART JOURNAL -- provides a forum for scholarship and visual exploration in the visual arts

ART FORUM - covers the contemporary art world with sections on architecture, music, advertising and reviews of contemporary exhibitions worldwide.