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Oxford Art Online  -  Oxford University Press    Current Edition
Electronic version of the 35 volume encyclopedic Grove's Dictionary of Art dictionary all of the Dictionary's 45,000 articles. Includes links to 24,000+ color images plus 1,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library. Also includes Resources from Oxford Art Online: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

AATA Online Abstracts of International Conservation Literature   -   Getty Conservation Institute       Updated Quarterly
AATA Online provides high quality, peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management. AATA Online currently includes abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners from many fields of heritage preservation to identify and select resources relevant to their work. New Users must Register, at no charge, to set personal preferences and save searches.

Art Inventories Catalog - Smithsonian American Art Museum              Current File
A seasrchable database with more than 300,000 records describing American paintings and sculptures. The information is compiled from reports supplied by museums, historical societies, special survey projects, public art programs, published catalogs, and private collectors.

Biography in Context - Gale    Current File  Updated Monthly
Provides more than 400,000 biographies on 275,000 different people, including artists. For Journal Articles, search by the artist's name, then click the Magazine Articles tab. Combines 80 of the most frequently consulted biographical sources with more than 250 full-text periodicals to provide in-depth, full-text information. Major Art resources covered include: American Artist, Art Bulletin, Art in America, Art Journal, and Smithsonian. Search Guide

Humanities International Index - EBSCO                1975-                Updated Monthly
A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.6 million records. It includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Humanities Index - Now searchable as part of  Wilson Select Plus   1994-
Covers more than 450 journals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and related subjects.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals    -    Lund University Libraries, Sweden            Current File            Updated Weekly
This service covers 1642 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Currently 413 journals are searchable at article level. More than 75,000 articles are included in the DOAJ service. Subject areas covered include: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works,  Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science,  Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General,  Social Sciences, and Technology and Engineering.

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases
Academic Search Premier  Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW.  Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP - Gale                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

Project Muse JohnsHopkinsUniversity     1995 -    Updated Monthly
Access to 223 full-text journals from university press publishers covering multiple topics in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.  List of Journal Titles. WWW Search Guide ---Browse Guide Video Tutorials: Search Books and Journals--- Browse Books and Journals .

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