Suggested Resources for Art and Design

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Art Full Text		Indexes/abstracts journal articles in fine arts, art history, architecture, graphic design, photography, and other art-related fields.
	Arts and Humanities Citation Index		Index to articles in arts and humanities fields. Please use the Arts and Humanities Citation Index located in Web of Science.
	Bibliography of the History of Art		An art bibliography covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.
	CAMIO		OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of 24 prominent museums including The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)		Abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards.
	Digital Content Library		The Digital Content Library is a database of images, sound, and video files based at the Twin Cities campus, with content added by academic departments in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Design at the Twin Cities, and the School of Fine Arts at UMD. There are presently over 150,000 items in the database, the majority being art and architecture images. UMD faculty, staff, and students have access to the database.
	Grove Art Online		Encyclopedia of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alternative Press Index		Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage begins in 1991.
	Alternative Press Watch		Full text from alternative and independent publications.
	American Memory Project		Library of Congress visual archive.
	AnthroSource		Online fulltext journals and other serial publications of the American Anthropology Association
	eHRAF World Cultures		Information about world cultures.
	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)		Full-text for many ERIC (ED) documents, 1996 - present. Includes documents relating to art education.
	ERIC (Proquest)		Index to educational materials.
	Ethnic News Watch		Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)		Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).
	International Index to the Performing Arts		Index to articles covering dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast arts, and more.
	JSTOR		A fulltext journal archive of selected journals including some in art, art history, and history; as an archive some of the coverage extends back to the first year of publication for the journal and ends approximately 3 years ago
	MLA International Bibliography		Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
	Project Muse		Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		Catalog of over 4,000,0000 books, microforms, and av publications

 

 

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For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Kim Pittman, Reference & Instruction Librarian

Email:kpittman@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7829

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