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Alternative Name(s)
AtoZ
MapsOnline
AtoZMapsOnline.com
Proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Includes 4,000+ political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
An e-book resource that features works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design from the world's finest publishers and museums. Keyword searching within ebook full text and images is available.
Alternative Name(s)
Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
A free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage, managed and published by the Getty since 1983. AATA Online contains over 148,000 records and adds approximately 4,000 new records each year through regular updates. The database also includes selected subject-specific bibliographies produced as part of the Getty Conservation Institute’s own conservation and scientific research projects or as part of specific collaborative projects in which the Institute is involved.
Alternative Name(s)
Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology
An academic in-depth bibliography dedicated to South and Southeast Asian prehistory, archaeology of the historical period, art, crafts and architecture, inscriptions, palaeography, and coins & seals of these regions. Going back to 1928, this unique and up-to-date bibliographic reference source has become the standard of reference in the fields it covers for specialists as well as students. Includes all bibliographical references of the printed Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (published between 1928-1984) and the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (published between 1999-2011), as well as recent up-to-date online-only material.
AccessScience, the online edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, is an authoritative and dynamic online resource that contains incisively written, high-quality reference material covering all major scientific disciplines. An award-winning gateway to scientific knowledge, it offers links to primary research material, videos and exclusive animations, plus specially designed curriculum maps for teachers.
Alternative Name(s)
American Council of Learned Societies
A digital, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars, the Humanities E-Book collection currently totals 5,519 titles in all as of October 2019. Fields currently covered include the following: African History, American History, Animal Studies, Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Asian History, Australasian/Oceanian History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Byzantine History, Canadian History, Caribbean History, Central European History, Comparative/World, Eastern European/Russian History, Economic History, Environmental Studies, European History, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American History, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Middle Eastern History, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
Provide access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Full Text, 1827–1998.
One of the world's preeminent collections for African-American studies including books, pamphlets, and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints. The collection spans nearly 400 years, from the early 16th to the early 20th century.
Alternative Name(s)
American National Biography Online
Contains over 18,700 biographies, 2,700 illustrations, and more than 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History, which provides historical and social context to the biographies.
Alternative Name(s)
Realkatalog des Deutsche Archäologische Institut Rom (DAI);
Archaeological Bibliography;
Projekt Dyabola
Indexes monographs, articles, and reviews about classical archaeology, Etruscology, Minoan archaeology, and prehistory. Coverage is from 1956 - October 2020 with ca. 857.700 citations, ca. 99.000 authors, and ca. 3.388.000 subject headings.
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A full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late 19th-21st centuries. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography.
With coverage dating back to 1914, Art & Architecture Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
The AAT includes generic terms, and associated dates, relationships, and other information about concepts related to or required to catalog, discover, and retrieve information about art, architecture, and other visual cultural heritage, including related disciplines dealing with visual works, such as archaeology and conservation, where the works are of the type collected by art museums and repositories for visual cultural heritage, or that are architecture. Terminology may be used for work types, roles, materials, styles, cultures, techniques, subject, etc., so long as terms fit into established AAT facets.
Alternative Name(s)
AHRnet
ReView
Artist + Architecture ProFiles
Design Abstracts Retrospective
Research Sources I
Research Sources 2
Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects
An art history research service consisting of six related and linked databases:
ReView - Contains the full text of a wide range of International Art and Architecture journals published between the 1860s and the 1930s; Arts + Architecture Profiles - Contains biographical data on nearly 45,000 artists, architects, designers and craftspeople; Design Abstracts Retrospective - Contains abstracts of articles and an index of images in design journals published between 1900-1986; Research Sources: 1: British & Irish Architecture and Decorative and Applied Arts 1850s to the 1930s - This is an ongoing project to digitize every book, exhibition catalogue, pamphlet and conference paper, as well as much of the journal literature published in Britain and Ireland during the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century; Research Sources: 2. The Poster - Contains extensive research data on the history of the Poster; Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950.
Over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews.
Alternative Name(s)
International Foundation for Art Research
These two sets of resources—International Cultural Property Ownership and Export Legislation (ICPOEL) and Case Law and Statutes (CLS)—will help users navigate the increasingly complex and abundant body of legislation and case law regarding the acquisition and ownership of artworks. Consulting this information is one step in a due diligence process in acquiring a work of art.
Alternative Name(s)
Magazine Antiques
ARTnews
Art in America
Art Magazine Collection Archives contains indexing and full text (including covers and advertisements) for Magazine Antiques (1922-2016), ARTnews (1902-2006) and Art in America (1913-2015). This archive provides a history of collecting over the course of the 20th century, as well as a comprehensive record of fine arts, art history, interior design, decorative arts, and architecture in the 20th and early 21st century.
Produced by the Program for Art on Film, a joint venture of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1984 to 1994. The database records are available as an Excel spreadsheet and in CSV (comma-separated value) format. Most of the films documented in this database were produced between 1970 and 1998, with selective coverage of productions from 1915 to 1969. Each of the roughly 26,000 citations includes a synopsis, credits, country, language, production date, format, and other filmographic data. The last addition to the database was made in 1998. Media formats covered include film, video, videodisc, multimedia, and CD-ROM productions.
Contains a growing collection of images of complete historical art sales catalogs from libraries in Europe and the USA. Includes Lugt’s Répertoire Vols. 1-3, 65482 Lugt records (1600-1900), and 34,015 scanned catalogues (1600-1900). Latest supplement: November 2019: 464 catalogues from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. New supplements are added regularly.
Leading treatises on art and architecture printed and published from 1470 to 1775 and structured around the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.
Specialist bibliography for the study of modern and contemporary art. Covers all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the late 1960s onwards. Also incorporates book records, including those drawn from the collections of the Tate Library and the Bibliothèque Dominique Bozo, Musée LAM. Coverage: 1974 - current.
The main ARTFL database, comprising more than 3,500 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries, 215 million words, and 675,000 unique word forms. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Alternative Name(s)
Former title: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon = Internationale Künstlerdatenbank
AKL online
Künstlerlexikon der Antike
Kunstlerlexikon der Antike
Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon
Contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1 million artists.
Browse over 12 million auction records with results dating back to 1985.
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NB: As of 2024, Artstor content is accessible through JSTOR.
Covers over 1.5 million high-quality images of art from around the world. Contains wide range of types of art (paintings, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, etc.) from ancient times to the present. To use all of the functions of Artstor please register and login.
Alternative Name(s)
ABSA
Earlier Title: American book prices current.
Includes millions of book and manuscript auction records curated over 50 years by both BIBLIO and American Book Prices Current (ABPC). It provides invaluable insight into the value, scarcity, and provenance of many of the most important books and manuscripts in the world.
Contains a number of leading periodicals and monographs with special importance for the study of the Czechoslovak avant-garde and architecture in the period before the Second World War.
Comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. The American and international journals indexed include not only scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage is mainly from 1934 to the present, with selective coverage back to 1741.
Alternative Name(s)
British Archaeological Reports
BAR Publishing is one of the world’s most respected publishers of academic archaeology. Over 3,600 titles in five languages are available in the BAR International Series and BAR British Series and they publish over 70 new, peer reviewed titles each year.
An international database managed by the Canadian Heritage Information Network on behalf of the Conservation Information Network (CIN), brings together bibliographic holdings and abstracts produced by several of the world's major conservation centers, including the Getty Conservation Institute.
Comprehensive western-language resource for research on Asia, containing nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Alternative Name(s)
BHA
RILA
Répertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie (RAA)
Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST)
Books, journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, festschriften, exhibition catalogs, reviews, and dealers' catalogs about European and American visual arts from late antiquity to present.
Alternative Name(s)
Art History Research Net
AHRnet
The AHRnet Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950 includes approximately 3,000 entries extracted from the Art History Research net database Arts+Architecture ProFiles (A+AP). Searches can be made by the name of an architect or firm, gender, and the country in which an architect worked.
Alternative Name(s)
Former title: International Index of Black Periodicals
Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
This comprehensive resource offers instant, searchable access to over 170 books which combine visual inspiration with practical advice on idea generation, research techniques, portfolio development and more, across the main visual arts disciplines.
A comprehensive guide to art galleries, auction houses, art fairs, and agents from multiple national and historical contexts. Contains peer-reviewed articles that combine factual data with biographical information and historical narratives.
Entries cover Europe and North America from 1900 to the present, and outline principal activities by listing exhibitions, clients, regular partners, and major artists whose works were sold. Selected bibliographies facilitate further research, as well as information on archival material and its whereabouts
Provides scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. Includes authoritative reference and book content, alongside a rich selection of museum object images.
Provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of one of the most influential and enduring 20th-century art movements, from its beginnings to the present day. Featuring a 3-volume major reference work, interactive timeline and rare archive images, portraits and artworks
A complete visual resource offering over 1,000,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.
Alternative Name(s)
Encyclopædia Britannica
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
Combines the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources for general research.
Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These newspapers, emerging during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history. With more than 240 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 6.4 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements. This collection illuminates diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press over a period of more than 200 years.
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students including more than 30,000 ebooks for the global market, with 1,500 new titles added on average.
Includes antique monuments, known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and information about locations, persons, and periods as well as bibliographic data. Access via the Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminar der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Alternative Name(s)
Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London
A resource for a wide variety of original source material that details China's interaction with the West and documents multiple perspectives on key historical events.
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together these resources provide access to more than 600,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages, covering articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Database of commercial products classified according to the Colour Index Generic Name (C.I.G.N.) and the Colour Index Constitution Number (C.I.C.N.), the unique and definitive classification system for dyes and pigments used globally by manufacturers, researchers and users of dyes and pigments. Listing both the essential colorant and registered commercial names. Contact Library Reference at 310-440-7390 or reference@getty.edu for login information.
Document and image database which includes antique works of art and architecture mentioned in J.J. Winckelmann's works, with information on the history of their influence. Contains ca. 2200 ancient monuments, 12.000 documents, ca. 5000 images.
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An archive (1897 to 2005) of the weekly British culture and lifestyle magazine, Country Life, focusing on fine art and architecture, the great country houses, and rural living. Every page is fully searchable, and reproduced in full color and high resolution. Country Life Archive presents a chronicle of more than 100 years of British heritage, including its art, architecture, and landscapes, with an emphasis on leisure pursuits such as antique collecting, hunting, shooting, equestrian news, and gardening. Coverage: 1897 - 2005.
Online reference library provides full-text access to over 773 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles.
CONA compiles titles, attributions, depicted subjects, and other metadata about works of art, architecture, and cultural heritage, both extant and historical, physical and conceptual. Metadata is gathered and linked from museum collections, special collections, archives, libraries, scholarly research, and other sources. CONA is linked to the AAT, TGN, ULAN, and the IA (Iconography Authority). Through rich metadata and links, CONA may provide a powerful conduit for research and discovery for digital art history.
Alternative Name(s)
Attic Gravestones of the late 5th and the 4th Century B.C.;
Projekt Dyabola
Attic Gravestones of the late 5th and the 4th Century B.C., ca. 2700 monuments, more than 3200 images.
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Maintained by galleries and art dealers, stock books record information about a work of art such as the date of acquisition, name and address of the seller, dimensions of the artwork, name of the purchaser, date of sale, and the selling price. Contains more than 43,700 records transcribed from the 15 stock books of Goupil & Cie/Boussod, Valadon & Cie in Paris as well as nearly 40,300 records transcribed from the 11 paintings stock books of M. Knoedler & Co. in New York.
Goupil: 1846–1919
Knoedler: 1872–1970
Premier source of information for all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present
The 1740 edition (5th Edition, Amsterdam, Leyde, La Haye, Utrecht; 4 vols. in-folio) by Pierre Bayle. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
ARTFL subscriber edition of Les Dictionnaires d'autrefois containing 16 complete dictionaries from the 17th to the 20th centuries. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Source-oriented text and image system that was developed for the humanities and the arts. The Getty Library subscription includes: Bibliographic
- Archäologische Bibliographie/Realkatalog DAI Rom Information Images
- Census of Antique Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance Information
- Corpus der antiken Denkmäler, die J.J. Winckelmann Information
- Griechische Grabreliefs Information
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One of the key magazines documenting African American life, covering 20th and 21st-Century events, art, design, politics, culture, literature, advertising, and more. The archive is comprised of digitized magazine issues originally published November 1945–June 2014 and includes articles alongside photographs, illustrations, and advertisements.
Provides the full-text of thousands of recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.
Alternative Name(s)
HRAF
Human Relations Area Files
Focuses on in-depth descriptive documents of archaeological traditions from around the world. Documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level and include books, monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts.
Alternative Name(s)
Human Relations Area Files
HRAF
Contains information on present and past aspects of cultural and social life for a worldwide sample of societies, designed with cultural researchers in mind. Contents are organized by cultures and indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists with unique subject identifier codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM), making it ideal for both exploratory, in-depth cultural research, and cross-cultural comparisons. Comprised of thousands of ethnographic sources including monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts.
Alternative Name(s)
19th Century Masterfile
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Scholarly database for finding published material from the 12th century through 1930.
Through enhancement and implementation of dozens of historically significant scholarly indexes, it offers multidisciplinary coverage of primary materials in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, History of Science, Law, Economics, Religion, Psychology, Government Documents, Visual Arts, Music, and the Physical Sciences.
General Periodical Literature Indexes:
Annual Library Index, 1892-1910
Contents-Subject Index to General and Periodical Literature (Cotgreave), 1850-1899
Cumulative Index to Selected Periodicals, 1896-1899
Index to Periodical Literature (Library Journal), 1876-1897
Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 (W.F.Poole)
Index to Periodicals (Stead), 1890-1902
JSTOR Early Journal Content, 1769-1922
Making of America, Periodicals, 1815-1901
Magazine Index, 1907-1922
19th Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899
Legal Periodical Indexes:
Index to Legal Periodicals (American Association of Law Libraries), 1908-1935
Index to Legal Periodical Literature (Jones & Chipman), 1786-1937
Scientific and Technical Periodical Indexes:
Catalogue of Scientific Papers (Royal Society), 1800-1900
Catalogue of Scientific Papers Subject Indexes - Mechanics, Physics, Mathematics, 1800-1900 (Royal Society)
Engineering Index, 1884-1909
Galloupe's General Index to Engineering Periodicals, 1883-1893
Industrial Arts Index, 1913-1921
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 1880-1961
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1901-1914 (Royal Society)
Psychological Index (Baldwin), 1893-1905
Specialized Periodical Indexes:
American Missionary
The American Whig Review
Appletons' Journal
The Atlantic Monthly
The Bay State Monthly
The Catholic World
DeBow's Review
Index to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1802-1906
The Galaxy
Garden and Forest
The Ladies' Repository
Living Age
The Manufacturer and Builder
Modernist Journals, 1890-1922
The New Englander and Yale Review
The North American Review
The Old Guard
The Overland Monthly
The Princeton Review
Punchinello
Putnam's Magazine
Scribner's Magazine
Scribner's Monthly
Southern Historical Society Papers, 1876-1910
The Southern Literary Messenger
The Southern Quarterly Review
St. Nicholas: an illustrated magazine for young folks, 1873-1928
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
Vanity Fair
Virginia Historical Index (Swem), 1619-1930
Book Indexes:
ALA Index to General Literature, 1893-1910
American Fiction II (Wright), 1851-1875
British Library Printed Music Collection
Documenting the American South Collection, University of North Carolina
Harvard University Library Catalog, pre-1931
Nineteenth Century Monograph Records
Image Indexes:
Adam Matthew Digital
ALA Portrait Index
American Memory
ARTstor Digital Library
The British Institution, 1806-1867
A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The Free Society of Artists, 1761-1783
Library of Congress Multimedia Collection
National Archives
New York Public Library Public Domain Collection
The Royal Academy of Arts, 1769-1904
The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791
Newspaper Indexes:
Burlington Free Press, 1848-1870
Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Granite Monthly, 1877-1930
New York Daily Tribune, 1875-1906
New York Times Index, 1863-1905
Niles' Register, 1811-1849
Oregon Spectator, 1846-1854
Palmer's Index to the The Times (London), 1880-1890
Government Documents Indexes:
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Annals of Congress 1789-1824; Register of Debates 1824-1837; Congressional Globe 1833-1873
Annual Report of Smithsonian Institution, Author-Subject Index, 1849-1961
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the 53rd Congress, 1893-1895
Checklist of U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England, 1066-1803
Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1895-1899
Cumulative Title Index to US Government Publications, 1789-1900
Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the U.S. Government (Ames), 1881-1893
Descriptive Catalog of the Government of the U.S., 1774-1881
Farmers' Bulletin (Dept. of Agriculture), 1889-1930
Hansard's British Parliamentary Debates, First and Second Series, 1803-1830
Journal of William Maclay, 1789-1791
Index to the Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office, 1790-1873
Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (Hickcox), 1885-1894
Public Documents of the First Fourteen Congresses, 1789-1817
Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the U.S.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1818-1930
Contains over 180,000 English-language and foreign-language works printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) covers monograph and serial letterpress items printed before 1801; printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages; printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars; with false imprints claiming publication in London, in any language. Contains every item in Pollard and Redgrave A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 (STC); in Wing A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700; in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (the predecessor of ESTC), including items catalogued by the American Antiquarian Society as part of the North American Imprints Program (NAIP); newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801.
Full-length, high-resolution media artworks for classroom and study use of over 2,000 streaming videos by 65 artists in EAI’s Online Catalogue. Includes “digital textbooks” of scholarly resources such as artists’ biographies, texts on the works, bibliographies, archival documents, supporting media, essays, and more.
Alternative Name(s)
Britannica Academic
Encyclopedia Britannica
Combines the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources for general research.
Thoroughly revised and expanded, the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Chromatography is an authoritative source of information for researchers in chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, and materials science. This quick reference and guide to specific chromatographic techniques and theory provides a basic introduction to the science and technology of the method, offering key references dealing with the methodology for analysis of specific chemicals and applications in industry.
With contributions from more than 200 esteemed international authorities and containing approximately 200 entries, the Encyclopedia of Pest Management, Volume II is a key reference for professionals in academia, industry, and government, as well as students at all levels.
The Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, 4th Edition, with a Foreword by Dr. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, presents over 500 articles, written and reviewed by specialists from all over the world, and serves as a unique source of reference to the entire field of polymer science and technology. Articles in the Encyclopedia cover the fundamental and practical aspects of the polymer field, including polymeric materials, polymer properties, polymerization methods, processing, and uses. Special emphasis is put on new and advanced polymeric materials for various applications (e.g. coating, water filtration, energy, and biomedical applications, etc.), new and improved characterization and analytical methods, and modern processing technology. Updated twice a year with new and revised articles.
French literary and artistic criticism. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Alternative Name(s)
La Poésie Française du moyen-age à la première guerre mondiale
Selected works from middle ages to the 20th century. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Over 100 works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
This index-only database presents citations from prominent art history periodicals indexed by the Frick Art Reference Library (FARL) from 1850-1969. Areas include artists, artworks, private and public collections, exhibitions, and reproductions.
Over 2.3 million records taken from source material such as archival inventories, auction catalogs, and dealer stock books. Coverage and more information available at https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/
More than 300 Getty publications available to read and download for free, including the complete run of the J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, v.1(1974)-v. 24(1996).
The Portal is an authoritative, worldwide resource that provides one-stop multilingual access to over 80,000 art history texts, rare books, and related literature without restriction. The Portal texts are free, downloadable, and digitized in their entirety according to national and international standards.
A Getty Vocabulary thesaurus, containing structured terminology for over 1.3 million names, variant names, and hierarchical context for places relevant to art, architecture, and related disciplines, recording names, relationships, place types, dates, notes, and coordinates for current and historical cities, nations, empires, archaeological sites, lost settlements, and physical features; it may be linked to GIS and maps.
This database was built using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process on images from the 20th Edition of Moréri's Grand dictionnaire historique (Paris: Les libraires associés, 1759) A copy available in the Rare Books Collection in University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
This collection of manuscript, visual, and printed works allows scholars to compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections. Includes letters; diaries and journals; account books; printed guidebooks; published travel writing; paintings and sketches; architectural drawings and maps.
Website of information on art supply businesses active in Paris, France, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes bibliographical references. Interface in French and English. Contact Library Reference at 310-440-7390 or reference@getty.edu for login information.
Search the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) for journal article citations about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US. This resource covers from the 1960s to the present and is updated daily.
comprehensive, searchable archive of every page, advertisement, and cover of the Harper's Bazaar US and UK editions, from 1867 to the present. Full searchable text and article level indexing. Chronicles American, British, and international fashion, culture, and society.
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Histoires de la révolution française
Textes from 1789 to the 20th century. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Documents the history of modern Russian and Ukrainian art. It encompasses critical literature, illustrated books, and art periodicals. It also offers a selection of early 20th century art-related serials.
Citations to articles, art notes, stories, poems, and advertisements from over 40 art journals published in the U.S. during the 19th century. Access limit: 1 user at a time.
A resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files.
A bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 300-1500) which indexes articles from over 4,500 journals and 5,000 miscellanies (conference proceedings, essay collections, and Festschriften).
Indexes articles from over 1700 journal titles as well as selected essays from over 8600 scholarly collections about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
Covers art, news, politics and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.
A 18th century literary journal reviewing and commenting on a wide variety of contemporaneous publications. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Indexes articles from over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
Online searchable database comprised of the print index begun in 1928 by Jules Marouzeau. Vols. 20- of the original print index are currently, with earler vols. to be digitized in the future. Indexes periodical articles as well as articles in collections and conference papers in classics and classical studies. Covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography: all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.
19th and 20th Century online access to more than 280 newspapers covering 20 countries in Latin America from Argentina to Venezuela. Created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries.
Indexes periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. Full Text 1997-present. Index 1984-present.
More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease
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The largest, richest dictionary of American English, built on the solid foundation of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.
Over 200 eBooks published by Taylor & Francis in the field of museum and heritage studies. The majority of titles deal with aspects of heritage management and conservation and range from practical conservation manuals to theoretical studies.
Includes full-text and full-image journal articles, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, conference proceedings, and newspaper articles, primarily in Chinese.
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 599 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 17,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond.
Access to four archives. Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, and Conquest; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; and Photography: the World through the Lens.
Over 500 major and minor French novels. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
A bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS). Reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.
Over 1,900 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as many lesser-known texts. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago and is a collaborative project of the ItalNet consortium.
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Grove Art Online; Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Covers all aspects of world visual art from prehistory to the present and offers access to The Benezit Dictionary of Artists and Grove Art Online as well as art-related Oxford publications. Over 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries around the world.
Contains more than 60,000 biographies, (excluding living people), who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the 21st century.
Defines words from across the English-speaking world; includes etymological analysis, variant spellings and pronunciation, and traces the usage of words from international English language sources.
Contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research.
Dictionaries of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish, into and out of English. Access limit: 3 user(s) at a time. A free version with other languages is available at: oxforddictionariesonline.com.
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
An electronic full-text version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
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Formerly Periodicals Contents Index full text
Contains over 700 art, humanities, and social science international journals comprising more than 3 million articles and 15 million article pages periodicals, spanning two centuries. Provides access to the full text of the digitized periodicals indexed in the database, Periodicals Index Online.
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Le corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue française
Works from the Renaissance to the 20th century. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Getty Library's Photo Archive holds two million photographs of works of art and architecture. The photographs facilitate supplementary and original pictorial research for the study of fine arts from antiquity to the modern period. Approximately half the holdings in the Photo Archive are represented by descriptive, nonpictorial records in the Photo Archive Database. The database supports searches across periods, styles, media, artists, and iconography. A small sub-set of records have images.
New for 2024: selected art and architecture titles from Project MUSE Latin American University Press Books.
Complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences from university presses and scholarly societies.
A collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
Thirty-eight collections of poetry texts from the 12th and 13th centuries. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Tools for the book collector and bookseller, especially old and rare books, antique or antiquarian books, hard to find, out of print, and collectible (collectable) books. Also covers rare book auctions, manuscripts, ephemera, broadsides, maps, prints, posters, bibliography, first editions, incunabula and catalogs (catalogues). Bibliographic database for the collector, library, and dealer plus a book auction search and book collecting magazine.
An online tool that lets you search across the print and online reference sources in the Getty Library's collections. It contains millions of back-of-the-book index terms to specialized subject encyclopedias. You can search for books, book chapters, or encyclopedia entries. You will be linked to our local holdings for any entries you find. This resource is a great place to start if you aren't sure what reference resource to use.
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Art History Research Net
AHRnet
British & Irish Architecture and Decorative and Applied Arts 1850s to the 1930s
An ongoing project to digitize every book, exhibition catalogue, pamphlet and conference paper, as well as much of the journal literature published in Britain and Ireland during the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century on the subject of British & Irish Architecture and Decorative and Applied Arts.
The official news site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, offers 400 titles of the French press published from 1631 to 1950 plus editorial contents highlighting press archives and advanced research tools.
A bibliographic database of auction sales catalogs (covering the late 16th century to present) from all major North American and European auction houses as well as important private sales. Records contain information on dates and places of sale, catalog title, the auction house, sellers, institutional holdings, and more. Subscription access via FirstSearch is limited to 5 Getty users at a time however a simple search version of SCIPIO is freely available through the Art Discovery Group Catalogue https://artlibraries.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
Contains the study collection of photographs; some drawings, tracings, and prints; and correspondence with friends and patrons of the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).
“Sources Chrétiennes Online” forms the digital, searchable counterpart to the well-known “Sources Chrétiennes” series, based in Lyon and published by Éditions du Cerf, Paris. By 2025, the database will incorporate the source texts from the more than 600 printed volumes, in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian, sided by French translations and allowing for targeted and filtered searches.
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Former Title: Aluka
JSTOR Primary Sources
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
Full-text French literature from the 12th through the 15th centuries. This database is part of the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, a cooperative enterprise of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Indexes and abstracts for over 470 periodical titles and hundreds of titles from books, conferences, theses, technical reports, and trade literature related to the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing.
To begin to use the database, create a personal account. Full-text database of virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and the fall of Byzantium in 1453. Scholia and Byzantine historiographical and lexicographical works are also included. The TLG continues its efforts to include all extant Greek texts of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods up to the modern era.
More than 200 years of full-text and full-image facsimiles of the Times (London) and its predecessors, The Daily universal register (1785-1787) and the Times, or, Daily universal register (1788).
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Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal
Provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and world events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
The benchmark reference in chemistry and chemical and life science engineering, covering inorganic and organic chemicals, polymers and plastics, metals and alloys, advanced materials, analytical methods, environmental protection, and much more.
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UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory
Authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types of academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters and more from around the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and that are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.
A structured Getty Vocabulary containing over 375,000 names and other information about artists, architects, patrons, firms, museums, and others related to the production and collection of art and architecture.
Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.
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Web of Knowledge
Science Citation Index SCI-EXPANDED
Social Sciences Citation Index SSCI
Arts & Humanities Citation Index A&HCI
Conference Proceedings Citation Index CPCI-S CPCI-SSH
Emerging Sources Citation Index ESCI
Includes:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1900-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) --1900-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --1975-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S) --1990-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
A database providing biographical information on over 6 million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present from countries and regions worldwide. Included are 8.5 million digital facsimile articles from biographical reference works. Access limit: 1 user at a time.
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Former title: Aluka
JSTOR Primary Sources
World Heritage Sites: Africa links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. The materials in World Heritage Sites: Africa serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning. The collection is also a tool for museums, libraries, NGOs, and government organizations that manage or oversee cultural heritage sites, as well as for experts and professionals engaged in the conservation and management of such sites.
Contains official records, publicity, artwork, artifacts, and other primary source materials for more than 200 fairs, with a primary focus on nine fairs: 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London; 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia; 1889 Exposition Universelle, Paris; 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago; 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis; 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco; 1933/34 Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago; 1939/40 New York World's Fair, New York; and 1967 Expo '67, Montreal.
This subset of WorldCat provides bibliographic records; some contain full-text doctoral dissertations and masters theses available through member libraries worldwide.
Contains nearly 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities in the UK spanning more than one million pages, bringing together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK).
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Online searchable database comprised of the print index begun in 1928 by Jules Marouzeau. Vols. 20- of the original print index are currently, with earler vols. to be digitized in the future. Indexes periodical articles as well as articles in collections and conference papers in classics and classical studies. Covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography: all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.
