Art - Databases

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Research Guide: Art — Databases

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Databases with a related Art focus:

ARTstor -- contains over 500,000 digital art images and associated data from a wide variety of civilizations, time-periods and media (troubleshooting info)

ERIC -- Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice. 1966 - present

JSTOR -- full text access to scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines

Oxford Art Online -- search Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms simultaneously!

Project Muse -- access to scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences

ATLA Religion Database -- (useful for church art topics) -- index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews

Databases with a Cross-Disciplinary focus:

Academic Search Premier -- scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study

LexisNexis Academic -- provides full text and citation access to information in the reference, business, medical, and legal disciplines

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online -- includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year

Oxford Reference Online Database -- full text of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated -- biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present