Art and Art History Resources

ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY

Grove Dictionary of Art
An encyclopedia of 45,000 articles covering art and artists worldwide. It is a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s. 3,000 thumbnail images are displayed in the text of articles with links to an additional 40,000 art images.

INDEXES AND DATABASES

Art Full Text (1929-present)
Art Full Text provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 400 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database offers broad coverage of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture, and art history.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (1973 - )
The Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present and indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 4,800 periodicals.

Humanities International Complete (1984 - )
The Humanities International Complete Index is a comprehensive database covering 2,000 journals, as well as books and reference sources in the humanities. All data from American Humanities Index is included with the addition of international coverage. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced.

Academic Search Complete
AAcademic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource contains more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, Academic Search Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1990 - )
Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 7,000 major science and social science journals.

Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
The Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. The Index describes the entire journal contents articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting.

Avery Index to Architectural Peridicals (1977 - )
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals< indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. It is updated daily.

IMAGES

Digital Media Center at OhioLINK
The Digital Media Center currently features the Art and Architecture Database, which includes collections of Greek and Roman architecture and sculpture, Minoan Art, Brueghel and Reubens paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, works of Michelangelo, and selected images from several art history textbooks.

ARTSTOR
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center: Arts and Humanities Journals
Includes the full text of approximately 40 arts and humanities journals from Elsevier, Academic Press, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer and Project Muse.

JSTOR
Provides access to the full content of a variety of scholarly journals. Coverage generally begins with volume one of a journal, and ends 2-5 years from the present. Journals may be browsed or searched.

EVALUATING INTERNET RESOURCES

We include the information in this section for your future use of web resources.

Authority

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Objectivity and Reliability

  • Is the coverage objective? If not, is the bias clearly stated?

  • Is the site sponsored by a commercial organization? Is it trying to sell you something?

Scope

  • Who is the intended audience? Is this site for scholarly purposes or just for fun?

  • Are both sides of an issue or topic provided?

  • What geographical area is covered?

  • What time period is covered?

  • Is this the original document or has it been edited or abridged in some way?

Currency

  • Does the web site give a date when it was last updated?

  • If so, has it been updated recently?

  • Is some of the information clearly out of date?

  • Are there many links that are broken and no longer connect to the resources listed? Broken links can be an indicator that a web site is not being updated regularly.

SELECTED INTERNET SITES

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