LibGuides: ART 264 Ancient-Medieval Dr. Julia Finch: Online Resources

Introduction

Databases (right) are library sources to use when you are looking for online scholarly materials, such as:

Journal articles
eBooks or eBook chapters
Newspapers or magazines
Visual materials (images, maps, charts, etc.)
Audio materials (interviews, audiobooks, radio broadcasts)
Streaming media (documentaries and movies)

Online resources (below) are internet websites that go beyond the library's materials. They can help you with particular aspects of this assignment, such as:

Viewing examples of thematic essays
Viewing exhibits in contemporary museums
Understanding how a collection is curated

e-Journals (below) are library sources to use when you are looking for journal articles.

Online Resources

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
An index of thematic essays hosted on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's online pages.
Atlas Database of Exhibits Louvre
The Atlas database covers all the works exhibited in the museum - some 30,000 items.
Internet users, like museum visitors, will find the usual explanatory texts that accompany museum exhibits, compiled under the authority of the museum curators.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
88,520 objects from the Museum's collection of over 227,000 are available in the online collections database. This information changes weekly as objects are added, updated, and enhanced with current research.
Smithsonian Collections
The Smithsonian's collections represent our nation's rich heritage, art from across the globe, and the immense diversity of the natural and cultural world.
Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity
An online catalog / thematic essay for an exhibit curated by Kathleen Forde, this is an excellent example of how to structure and think about this assignment.

Databases for Art

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Is an online archive of scholarly journals which contains high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries. Contains also scholarly e-books, primary sources, and an image collection.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
varies by title (1665 is the earliest year covered)
Update Frequency:
varies by title
Size:
more than 2,800 journals
Notes:
There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
Art Index This link opens in a new window
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Indexes more than 200 key international English-language arts publications. It includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews.
Subject Coverage:
archeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, video
Dates of Coverage:
September 1984 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 596,000 records
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Is an online archive of scholarly journals. Articles are searchable in a number of ways and may be viewed as web pages and in some cases as PDF files.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
unavailable
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 227 journals
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Contains 6,550 full-text journals (with 5,890 of them peer-reviewed). Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Subject Coverage:
animal science, anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, science, technology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology
Dates of Coverage:
PDF content dating back as far as 1887
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
over 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals

ART 264 Ancient-Medieval Dr. Julia Finch: Online Resources

Welcome to the ART 264 Help Guide

Introduction

Online Resources

Databases for Art

e-Journals

e- Journals for Fine Arts

e- Journals for Art & Design

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