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Reference Sources for Exploring Your Topic
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Grove Art Online (contained within Oxford Art Online)Online full-text version of a 34 volume encyclopedia with signed entry articles written by art historians.
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Art21Open-source contemporary art content. Art21 offers information on contemporary artists through videos and interviews.
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ARTstorLarge collection of digital images in the areas of arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from the world's museums, archives, libraries, scholars, and artists.
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism OnlineProvides introductory overviews of cultural and literary theory, informing ideas about art production and reception.
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American Indian NewspapersAmerican Indian Newspapers presents the publications of a range of communities, covering periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016. Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. The collection provides a unique view of a range of subjects from an Indigenous perspective, including the civil rights era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation. This resource has been developed with, and has only been made possible by, the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned.
Major Art Research Databases (Articles)
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Art Full TextThorough coverage of arts of all periods and regions; includes citations or full text for 750+ art journals. Coverage from 1984-present
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ARTbibliographies ModernABM focuses on art from the late 19th century to the present.
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Bibliography of the History of ArtFocuses on European/American art from c. 400 A.D. to the present. Includes citations from 1975-2007. See International Bibliography of Art for continuation.
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JSTOR: the scholarly journal archiveContains full text of c. 120 art-related journals. Recent years are omitted.
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Art & Architecture ePortalOnline collection of key backlist and out-of-print scholarly works in the fields of art and architectural history published by: The Art Institute of Chicago, The MIT Press, Yale University Press, Harvard Art Museums, and the Yale University Art Gallery. The portal allows the user to browse all images (by artist, title, or date) and allows instructors to easily create custom course packs.
Film Criticism and Scholarship
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Film & Television Literature Index (FTLI)Articles, film reviews, and book reviews related to film and television from 30 countries. Includes both scholarly and popular film and TV sources.
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