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.
- 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.
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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 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. A current CD-ROM version is available at the circulation
desk.
- 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).
