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Core Databases
- ARTstor [about]
ARTstor
Coverage Dates: -
Format: Online
ARTstor is a growing repository of 300,000+ digital images and related data supporting interdisciplinary studies with special emphasis on collections of art, architecture and archeology. For more information on using ARTstor see http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/artstor.shtml.
« Hide Description - Art Abstracts [about]
Art Abstracts
Coverage Dates: 1984 - Present
Format: Online
A bibliographic database that cites articles from more than 285 periodicals published throughout the world. Covers art, art history, graphic arts, crafts, landscape, interior design, etc.
« Hide Description - Art Index Retrospective [about]
Art Index Retrospective
Coverage Dates: 1929 - 1984
Format: Online
Indexing of hundreds of publications. Includes citations to peer-reviewed articles, interviews and books reviews. Covers fine, decorative, and commercial art. International in scope.
« Hide Description - Arts and Humanities Citation Index [about]
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Coverage Dates: 1980 - Present
Format: Online
includes list of cited references
« Hide Description - Avery Index to Architectural Periodic... [about]
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Online
Coverage Dates: 1741 - Present
Format: Online
Includes scholarly and popular periodical literature, publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, over 2500 titles in all. Approximately 40% of the indexed articles are in English; 60% are in languages other than English, including Basque, Catalan., Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
« Hide Description - BHA/RILA - Bibliography of the Histor... [about]
BHA/RILA - Bibliography of the History of Art
Coverage Dates: 1973 - Present
Format: Online
Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibitions, dealer catalogs and articles.
« Hide Description - Index of Christian Art [about]
Index of Christian Art
Coverage Dates: -
Format: Online
The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1550. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, and these include manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, and so forth. The database has both text and images, although some works of art may not have an accompanying image.
« Hide Description - Jstor [about]
Jstor
Coverage Dates: Varies - Varies
Format: Online
Digitized backfiles of scholarly journals; recent issues are not available through this database. Note: Images from Jstor's sister database, ARTstor, will be included in searches, but only by using the Basic Search mode.
« Hide Description - New York Times (1980-Present) [about]
New York Times (1980-Present)
Coverage Dates: 1980 - Present
Format: Online
New York Times; Late Edition (East Coast). Includes New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine from 1997 - present.
« Hide Description - New York Times Archive (1851-2004) [about]
New York Times Archive (1851-2004)
Coverage Dates: 1851 - 2004
Format: Online
« Hide Description - Oxford Art Online [about]
Oxford Art Online
Coverage Dates: -
Format: Online
Global coverage provides detailed analysis of the arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Pacific and Europe
« Hide Description - Projekt Dyabola [about]
Projekt Dyabola
Coverage Dates: -
Format: Online
Developed for the humanities and the arts, contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world.
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