Art Abstracts
Starting date: 1984
(1994 for abstracts).
Updated monthly.
Availability: campuswide.
Covers leading publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum
bulletins. Includes bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards,
exhibition listings and reviews.
Corresponds to the
printed Art Index.
For a list of the titles indexed,
click here.
Art Index Retrospective
Dates: 1929-1984.
Use Art Abstracts (above)
for more current information.
Availability: campuswide.
Provides citations corresponding to volumes 1-32 of the Art Index.
For a list of the titles
indexed, click
here.
Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals
Starting date: 1741
Updated weekly.
Availability: campuswide.
Provides citations and indexing for articles on architectural design,
the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, historic
preservation, interior design and city planning.
Corresponds to the printed publication of the same title.
Dates vary.
Availability: campuswide.
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals with high-quality page images. It does not contain current issues.
Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection contains 150 titles. The collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
For a list of the titles with dates of coverage, click here.
Film Literature Index
Coverage dates: 1976-2001
Updated annually.
Availability: public.
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover
and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
Corresponds to the
printed publication of the same title.
AskART Academic
Coverage dates:
early 16th century to the present.
Update frequency varies.
Availability: campuswide.
Contains information on over 120,000 artists, including biographies, valuation & provenance of works, bibliographic references, and discussion boards.
ArtLex
Availability: public
An art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education. Contains definitions of more than 3,100 terms used in visual culture, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross-references.
The Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Availability: public
Provides terminology and other information about the objects, concepts, artists, and places important to the history and practice of art and architecture.
ARTstor
Availability: campuswide
A rich digital library of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections, including approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Development of the collections is ongoing, the product of a growing number of partnerships with individuals and institutions, such as the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection.
AP Images
Starting date: 1826
(Dates vary. See description.)
Availability:
campuswide
Photographs, audio sound bytes, graphics and text from the Associated
Press. One million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a
few moments ago. Tens of thousands of graphics, more than 4,500 hours
of audio files dating from the 1920s, and news stories and headlines dating
from 1997.