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A-Z Databases: Art & Art History

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39 Databases found for Art & Art History

Art & Art History Databases

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Citations and some full-text articles from scholarly journals and general periodicals on a variety of subjects.
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
Now known as World Heritage Sites: AFRICA. Please go to "W" in the Database A-Z list to access World Heritage Sites: AFRICA.
Online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.

Art Full Text is a foundational art research database providing full-text art journals and books. It covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, film and architecture. Beyond art studies, Art Full Text supports those engaged in a multitude of related fields including women's studies, media studies, cultural studies, and history.

B

  • Open Access
References to articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, & exhibition catalogs on European & American art from late antiquity - present (1973-present).
  • Open Access
An extensive list of articles from archived digital issues in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, spanning a wide range of topics from literature and music to politics and activism.

C

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its award-winning in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Reports are published online 44 times a year by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications.
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.

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  • Open Access
DPLA contains a rich variety of photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and more, all immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.
  • Open Access
Access to over 2,000 quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Includes doctoral dissertations and master's theses back to 1997 or earlier, and citations and abstracts back to 1985.

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Digital Library of the first 125,000 books printed in English from 1475-1700.
eBook Central is an interactive eBook database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 100,000 titles from more than 220 academic, scientific, medical and professional publishers.
Searchable full-text access to works published in Great Britain from 1701-1800. Based on the English Short Title Catalog, this digital library now covers works in history, geography, literature, social sciences, fine arts and religion.

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Contains video clips and full-length videos, covering subjects in Business & Economics, Health & Medicine, Humanities & Social Sciences, Science & Mathematics, and Archival Films & Newsreels.
Access leading digital magazines on your browser or mobile device with Flipster, the digital magazine newsstand from EBSCO.This will be a 1 year pilot program. Please reach out to our reference staff for any assistance needed.

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Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

I

  • Open Access
Search for free books, movies, images, software, music, and more. Also includes the WayBack machine, an archive of webpages that tracks changes to websites over time.
Secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), including citations for books, journal articles, dissertation abstracts, conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues.
Iter Italicum is a finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections around the world. It is a tool for any scholar working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.

J

Journal citation information, including most frequently cited, highest impact and largest journals in a field. Includes data from JCR Science Edition 2004-2009 and JCR Social Sciences Edition 2004-2009.
Scholarly journal articles in the social, general, & life sciences.

M

A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open-access monographs, all new MIT Press scholarly monographs, and edited collections, will be openly available on the MIT Press Direct e-book platform.

O

An all-encompassing database, OneSearch searches books and media from LNDL as well as newspaper, magazine and journal articles, business publications and more.
  • Open Access
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.
Online access to 159 Oxford journals on a range of topics from about 1998-present.
Very Short Introductions are the perfect introduction to subjects you previously knew nothing about: from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, and Globalization to Literary Theory.

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Full-text journals in literature, performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, & more.
One stop searching portal for all ProQuest Databases currently available through LNDL (with the exception of EBook Central) covering a wide range of disciplines. Available ProQuest Databases are also listed individually on the database list for more concentrated searching when needed.

R

Citations of articles on a variety of topics, from the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.

S

  • Open Access
Access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian's collections. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Swank Digital Campus provides streaming access to a variety of feature films and documentaries selected by faculty and assigned as part of course work. Films available through Swank can vary by academic year.

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Formerly known as Aluka Cultural Heritage.
Online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.

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