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.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles.
	Art Full Text		Index and abstracts to art periodicals with full-text available for selected journals from 1997 to present.
	Arts and Humanities Citation Index		Index to articles in arts and humanities fields.
	ARTstor		ARTstor contains curated collections of art images and associated data. There are approximately 300,000 images in the database at the present time. Special features include the ability to create sets of images and contextual information to use and share and access to a special off-line image viewer/organizer.
	Bibliography of the History of Art		NEW -- The standard art history bibliography covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.
	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
	Alt-Press Watch		Full text from alternative and independent publications.
	Alternative Press Index		Indexes 250 alternative, radical, and left publications.
	American Memory Project		Library of Congress visual archive.
	AnthroSource		Online fulltext journals and other serial publications of the American Anthropology Association
	Education Full Text		Index to articles on all aspects of education, including art education.
	ERIC (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)		Index to educational materials, including art education.
	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)		Full-text for many ERIC (ED) documents, 1996 - present. Includes documents relating to art education.
	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 (Proquest CSA)		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 pulibcations

 

 

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

Rory Litwin, Reference Librarian

Email:rlitwin@d.umn.edu

Phone:218 726-7896

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