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Art Full Text provides indexing and abstracting of over 600 key English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, including select full-text coverage. Nearly 2,000 art dissertations are also abstracted and indexed. Its subject matter covers archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, decorative arts, graphic arts, industrial and interior design, landscape architecture, museology, and film, video and photography. Feature articles are indexed, as are bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences and exhibitions, book and film reviews, and significant editorials and letters to the editor. Reproductions of works of art are also indexed. See Art Index Retrospective for coverage of earlier (1929-1984) journal literature. (Updated monthly)
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This index is the predecessor to Art Full Text, citing articles and reproductions from more than 600 key English and foreign-language periodicals from 1929 through 1984. Subject matter includes broad coverage of art, architecture, graphics, crafts, decorative arts, industrial and interior design, photography, film and video. (Not updated).
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ARTbibliographies Modern provides information on modern and contemporary art dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. The database provides descriptions of journal articles, reviews, and art publications such as exhibition catalogs, monographs and artists’ books. Publications dating back to the late 1960s are described. The coverage includes traditional media such as illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture and drawing, as well as performance art, installation works, photography, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramics, glass art, ethnic art, graphic design, museums and galleries, fashion, and calligraphy.
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The Avery Index is the primary architectural periodical index published in North America. It indexes a broad range of articles on architecture from such diverse fields as archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, landscape architecture, city planning, and housing. Coverage reaches from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The number of periodicals covered varies from 300-500 annually. (Updated weekly)
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Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) provides citations and abstracts for references taken from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards. All areas of design and craft from the mid-19th century onward are covered, including industrial design, interior design, environmental design, computer-aided design, furniture design, ceramics, jewellery, textile design, graphic design, book design, photography, advertising, exhibition design, theatre design, ergonomics, and design and craft theory, among other areas.
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International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). IBA covers international scholarship including European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945. About 500 core journals are covered, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.
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JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, botany, ecology, economics, education, film, finance, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, middle east studies, music, philosophy, political science, population/demography, religion, sociology, and statistics. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue, depending on the title. The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal; it is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR. Graphs, photographs, and other images are included. UW-Madison Libraries have acquired the following JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-XIV; Biological Sciences; Business; Ecology & Botany; Health & General Sciences; Ireland; Language & Literature; Music. (Updated irregularly)
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This database indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. (See Historical Abstracts for non-North American coverage.) Links to full-text articles are included when available. Books and dissertations are included. (Updated monthly)
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This database is the most comprehensive index to scholarly work in classical studies. It collects citations for works relating to every aspect of Greek and Roman civilization (authors and texts; literature; linguistics; political, economic, and social history; attitudes and daily life; religion; cultural and artistic life; law; philosophy; science and technology; and the history of classical studies). (Updated annually)
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artlibraries.net -- Virtual Catalogue for Art History (http://www.artlibraries.net/), formerly the VKK, is an international specialized meta catalogue allowing the integrated retrieval of bibliographic records and, should the occasion arise, other objects of distinctive art historical databases. Currently, artlibraries.net gives access to more than 12 million records (as of October 2010), including a high percentage of records for articles in periodicals, conference papers, festschriften, exhibition catalogues and exhibition books, etc., and an increasing percentage of records for archival and photographic materials as well as for online resources. (Updated continually)
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Art History Research net consists of four related and linked databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective, Review, Arts + Architecture Profiles, and Research Sources: The Poster. Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) is an ongoing abstracting and indexing service that aims to cover full contents of 70 of the most important design and applied arts journals published between 1900-1986. Review contains digitised full-text versions of 19th and early 20th century decorative and fine arts journals. It currently contains 28 full text journals, including: The Studio (London),vols. 1-50, 1893-1910; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vols. 1-27, 1897-1911; Art et Décoration, vols.1-28, 1897-1910; and The Poster, vols.1-6, 1898-1901. Arts+Architecture Profiles has biographical data on over 40,000 artists, architects, craftspeople and designers. Research Sources: The Poster contains extensive information on Poster Design, including: A History of the Poster: a Bibliographical and Online Survey; digitizations of the most of the significant books, exhibition catalogues and journals on the Poster published between 1890s-1920s; and an International Directory of Poster Collections.

The ATLA Religion Database (formerly ATLA Religion Index) indexes more than 600 of the leading journals in the field of religion and theology. The index also includes essays from multi-author works and book reviews. ATLAS (= ATLA Serials) has full-text content from approximately 190 journals. Most of these are full-text back to 1949 and indexed from 1908, although some do not include the most recent 1-5 years. (Updated semiannually)
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This searchable bibliography provides extensive coverage of Western-language monographs, journal articles and chapters of edited volumes that deal in one way or another with the countries and civilizations of East, Southeast and South Asia or with the overseas Asian communities in North America, Europe and elsewhere in the world.
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The Getty Research Institute provides free access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA). The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. For material published after 2007 see the International Bibliography of Art (IBA). BHA and RILA survey the visual arts in Europe and the Americas from late antiquity to the present, indexing articles from more than 1,200 periodicals published in 45 languages, as well as books, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, conference proceedings, and bibliographies. (Not updated)
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This database is an international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities. It includes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. Topics include architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, education, economics, foreign affairs, environment, cinema, current affairs, gender studies, history, language, law, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, and theatre. (Updated monthly)
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This is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics. It includes Arte Chicano : an Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981. Since 1992 it expands coverage to the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. (Updated quarterly)
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Dyabola is an international index to scholarly journals and collected works on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology. There are no abstracts. NOTE: Users must check in the box labeled "IP-Access" (English interface) or "IP-Zugang" (German interface) prior to clicking the Start button.
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The FRANCIS database is created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in France. It is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. The database contains more than 1.8 million records, with abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages. It covers journals, books, conference papers and other documents. (Updated monthly)
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Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. (See America: History and Life for U.S. and Canadian coverage.) Links to full-text articles are included when available. It lists articles covering the years 1450 to the present, including more than 2600 periodicals published in 90 countries in 40 languages. Collections of essays, conference papers, dissertations, and books are also included. (Updated monthly)
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Indexes more than 11,000 academic journals in 40 languages from around the world, with particular emphasis in European humanities and social sciences. More than 1000 open access journals were added in 2012. Some citations include abstracts. Subject headings and classification terms are listed in both German and English.

The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost a hundred years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.
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The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals indexes 42 art journals published in the United States during the nineteenth century (1844-1907). Entire journal contents are indexed, including articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems and advertisements. Journal coverage includes artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration and collecting. (Not updated)
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The IMB is the major index to medieval studies (c. 400-1500). It includes citations to articles in approximately 4500 journals and "miscellany" volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften). NOTE: Click "enter databases," then select IMB. (Updated quarterly)
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A searchable bibliography of approximately 1.2 million records for articles, essays, books, and more, regarding the European Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700. (Updates vary)
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The PIO database contains citations for more than 3,500 social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany, from the late 18th century to the present. (Updated annually -- present minus 8 years)
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This database describes articles on Africa, covering a wide range of topics, with a strong focus on journals published in Africa. Today the database is updated by the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands, which has hosted the database since June 2008. Also included are citations from the original Africana Periodical Literature database, compiled by Davis Bullwinkle from 1974 to 2008, and the Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature, created and maintained by the Overseas Office of the American Library of Congress in Nairobi from 1991 to 2011. (Updates vary)
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The Royal Institute of British Architects maintains the British Architectural Library. The library catalog describes holdings of books, journals, drawings, photographs, and other material, as well as providing article-level indexing for approximately 300 architectural periodicals. Click the link for the Online Catalogue Guide and look for a link to the Online Catalogue in the text. (Updated daily)
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This searchable full text archive contains every page of the TLS published from 1902 until five years from the present. The journal provides reviews of books in many disciplines, theatre, musical performances, art exhibitions, film, media, and other cultural events as well as editorial and commentary articles. (Updated annually)
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The Vernacular Architecture Forum compiles an ongoing citation list of books, articles and other publications. The bibliography is in transition and is currently available in a Zotero Group citation list.
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The Web of Science is a combination of databases, including the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. In total, it indexes more than 12,000 peer-reviewed journals, including 1,700 in the arts and humanities. It is also possible to search by cited authors and to find articles sharing one or more cited reference. Search the multiple databases independently or in any combination.
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This database provides access to the complete archives of six 19th and 20th-century women's magazines. The magazines are all scanned from cover to cover. Content is still being added. The titles and their projected dates of coverage are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005) Chatelaine (1928 to 2005) Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005) Ladies’ Home Journal (1883 to 2005) Parents (1926 to 2005) Redbook (1903 to 2005). (Updates ongoing)