Guides: Art: Databases, Journals, and Articles

Databases

Art Databases
Complete list of Art databases available through TTU.

These are just a handful of the many Art related databases available through the Texas Tech Unviersity Library.

Art & Architecture Source
Covers a broad range of related subjects from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design.
JSTOR
ARTstor has been folded into JSTOR. JSTOR provides access to the highest-quality academic journals, books, images, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Project Muse
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. From late 1960s to present with over 13,000 new entries being added each year.

Art Source Project
An archived list of art related resources on the internet. Please note, this is not the EBSCO database.

International Bibliography of Art
The database includes detailed abstracts for all new content, in-depth abstracts for scholarly articles, and authority files of controlled terms.

Art Search Research Guides-AHR net
Research guides to artist biographies, open access journals and other scholarly art related resources.
Streaming Video Collections
Here is the full list of Streaming video available via TTU libraries
Index of Medieval Art
The collections include images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture.
Artstor in JSTOR
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.

Art, Design & Architecture Collection
ProQuest's Art, Design & Architecture Collection is a comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, and the International Bibliography of Art, together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.
Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
Features hundreds of fulltext titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. Designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
Covering 42 periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century, this database is the sole online index to virtually all the art journals published in that period.

Dictionaries, Articles, and Other Useful Places to Look for Information

Oxford Art Online
Access and search for the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location, with the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial Oxford reference content.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (4001700).
Historic New York Times
Historic New York Times Newspaper collection, 1851 to 2010.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
Leading source of articles, abstracts, and other publications in the field of design, from 1973 to present day.

COMICLOPEDIA - ILLUSTRATED ARTIST COMPENDIUM
Online since 1 November 1999, the Comiclopedia is the world's largest overview of comic artists

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.

Grants

Foundation Directory Online
Provides access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a searchable database of the entire universe of over 92,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities.

Journals, Bibliographies, and Articles

E-Journals A-Z
Search for specific journals by title.

The TTU Libraries hold a number of print journals, which can also be found through the Library Catalog. In addition to print, patrons can access several E-Journals online.

Art E-Journals
Complete list of Fine and Decorative Arts E-Journals held at TTU.

Library Catalog
Books, periodicals, and other materials available for use and check-out.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)
The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its website. The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
OpenBibArt: A History of Art Bibliography
OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS). OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.

Rob's Guides

Welcome, I am the personal librarian for The College of Visual and Performing Arts as well as Film Studies. I am also known as the Popular Culture Librarian.

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