Guide to Resources in the Visual Arts
Databases, Indexes and Abstracts
 

Arts & Humanities Search.
This citation index references approximately 1,300 of the world's significant arts and humanities journals.

Academic Search Premier. (EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,040 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. 

Current Contents.
This multidisciplinary, current awareness resource provides indexing and tables of contents to over 6,000 journals covering a broad range of disciplines.

Dissertation Abstracts International
A database that provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.

JSTOR.
Provides electronic full text/image access to the back issues of more than 600 scholarly journals in many fields including arts and humanities.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
Provides online access to full-text and bibliographic information from newspapers, news and business magazines, newsletters, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and biographical sources.

Paper Resources:

Applied Science and Technology Index, 1958-1998 (605 Ap 58) (Indexes-Main Level)
Indexes selected scholarly journals in applied science and technology. Includes subject headings on photography, computers, and graphic arts.

Art Index, 1929-1997 (705 Ar73) (Abstracts & Indexes-Main Level)
Indexes selected scholarly journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in all areas of art including graphic arts, industrial design, and photography.

B.H.A.: Bibliography of the History of Art, 1991-1997 (016.7 R4512) (Indexes-Main Level)
Successor to RILA covers current literature of European art from late antiquity to the present and American art from European discoveries to the present.

Business Periodicals Index, 1958-1998 (650.5 B966) (Indexes-Main Level)
Indexes selected business journals. Includes subject headings on advertising, commercial art, graphic arts, mass media, and trademarks.

R.I.L.A., Repertoire internationale de la Literature de l'Art, 1975-1989. (016.7.R451) (Indexes-Main Level)
Indexes books, periodical articles, conference proceedings, collected essays, exhibition catalogues, museum publications and doctoral dissertations. Covers worldwide literature on Western art in all media.
 

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