Journal databases

Finding Journal Articles

Art Abstracts (1984-present): A core resource and recommended starting place for art research, indexing more than 300 key, international arts publications. Subjects include archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, musicology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles and video. The print version of Art Index is available in the 4th floor reading room, Z5931.A75 RR4

Art Index Retrospective: Web version of Art Index volumes 1-32, published between 1929 and 1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Use the art reproductions index to identify works of art that appear as illustrations in indexed articles.

AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature (1955-present): Comprehensive abstracting of the literature related to the preservation and conservation of artifacts--broadly interpreted to include works of art, cultural objects, museum collections, archives and library materials, architecture, historic sites, and archaeology. AATA Online incorporates all 36 volumes of Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (N8560.A78 stacks) and its predecessor, IIC Abstracts, published between 1955 and the present. See this list of core journals

ARTbibliographies Modern (1974-present): Best place to start for 20th-and 21st-century artists and movements; performance and multi-media art; and emerging trends in contemporary art. Coverage begins with Impressionism in the late 19th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. Includes abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. A complete list of journals indexed can be found here

Arts & Humanities Citation Index using the ISI Web of Knoweldge: Provides access to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Citation Databases from 1982 to the present. Both general and cited reference searching are available.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals: The web version of Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Z5945.A932 RR4) covers architecture as well as interior design, city planning, archaeology and individual architects. Excludes periodicals in non-Western alphabets. Coverage is from 1934 to the present, with selective records dating to the 1860s.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) (1971-present). Citations to western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA),1973-present: Contains records describing the art historical literature, covering Western art from the 4th century to the present. The database corresponds to BHA: Bibliography of the history of art = Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art issued since 1990 (Z5937.B2 RR4); it also incorporates RILA: International Repertory of the Literature of Art (1974-1990) in its entirety (Z5937.R2 RR4); and the segment of Repertoire d'art et d'archaeologie that was published between 1973 and 1989. A complete list of currently-indexed journals is available here.

Repertoire d'art et d'archaeologie(Z5937.R42 RR4)is the oldest index to journal literature in art. It began in 1910 and remains a useful research tool. Like BHA, the emphasis is on Western European art, and few English-language sources are considered in the earliest years.

Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance: Begun as a card file at the Warburg Institute in London in 1946, this file in the Dyabola database indexes and illustrates antique objects known to Renaissance artists. Images are provided when available, and each entry is presented with historical documentation and a modern bibliography. Click on the box labeled "IP-Zugang" before beginning.

Design and Applied Arts Index: 1973-present. International index to articles in contemporary design and craft journals and newspapers. Includes conference reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews.

DAR: Design Abstracts Retrospective,1903-1986 with some sources back to 1894. This file takes coverage of the design and craft literature back to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Dyabola: Includes the web version of Archäologische Bibliographie, an annual bibliography of literature on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology published by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome. Click on the box labeled "IP-Zugang" before beginning.

Francis: Indexes a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. The database is particularly strong in its coverage of art and archaeology: it includes records for western language publications covering non-western art--Asian, Near Eastern, Egyptian, Islamic, African, and pre-Columbian--in addition to all records in the Bibliography of the History of Art (see above). Coverage is 1984 to the present.

Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals: Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century.

Index of Christian Art: Indexes works of art from early apostolic times to A.D. 1400, with an emphasis on art of the western world. Seventeen media are represented in the archive, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and glass. Records include bibliography, references to reproductions and, in some cases, links to images.

International Medieval Bibliography: Select "Enter Databases" to search. Indexes articles relating to the Middle Ages from 450-1500. Includes research on medieval history in archaeology, architecture, arts, canon law, the crusades, daily life, folk studies, historiography, language, literature, military history, music, philosophy, political thought, religion, and social history. Covers Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Includes entries from periodicals, conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften. Corresponds to print and CD-ROM versions (Z6203.I6).

Zenon (1956-present). The combined catalogs of the German Archaeological School libraries. The database is also an index to articles on classical, near eastern and Egyptian archaeology and Byzantine art history. Zenon was developed as a free version of Dyabola, which is more complicated to use.