Selected Art , Architecture and Art History Online Resources
Databases
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*360Search
Click on "Art". 360Search will then simultaneously search a number of databases that contain art and art history related sources.

*Art Index
This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.

  • *ARTStor
    ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library′s initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
  • *BHA- Bibliography of the History of Art
    Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer′s catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present.
  • *Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition
    Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Includes these Wilson full text indexes: Education, General Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Legal, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Business & Readers Guide.

Journals
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Online Reference Works
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  • CAMEO: Conservation & Art Material  Encyclopedia Online (MFA, Boston)
    The MATERIALS database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.
  • *Online Reference Works in Art & Art History from Oxford University Press
    The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists; A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms; The Oxford Dictionary of Art; A Dictionary of Modern Design; The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States; The Oxford Companion to the Garden; The Oxford Companion to the Photograph; The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance; A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art; The Oxford Companion to Western Art
  • *Online Reference Works in Art, Art History & Architecture from CREDO Reference
    A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda; Chambers Film Factfinder; Miller′s Antiques Encyclopedia; The Bloomsbury Guide to Art; The Bridgeman Art Library Archive; The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art ; The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture ; The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Design and Designers; The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms ; The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists ; The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art ; The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers;  The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers;  The Thames & Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism
  • *Hutchinson Dictionary of Symbols in Art
  • *A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
  • *The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
  • *Grove Art Online
    Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). We offer ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

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