Research Guides: Art History &amp; Studio Art: Getting Started

Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Great starting point featuring full-text articles dating back to 1977.

Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to articles published between 1929-1984. It is continued by Art Full Text
ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography since its invention.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
"The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Indexes plans & elevations.
Cahiers d'Art Institute
Cahiers d'Art Institute's digital catalogue raisonné project from Artifex press focuses on Modern & Contemporary artists & includes multimedia files & video interviews
Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from design and craft journals and newspapers. Also includes data on designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and firms.

JSTOR Image Search This link opens in a new window
Search the Artstor Image Library including Dartmouth Collections & content from museums, collections & archives around the world. View & analyze images through features such as zooming. Save both image files & citations.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
A database of art terminology, encyclopedic entries on artists and works of art, and images. Includes the Grove Dictionary of Art & Benezit.

A&AE Portal This link opens in a new window
Discover important art and architectural history scholarship from some of the world’s finest publishers and museums. Search, read, cite, note, and more.
Yale University Press sends records to Acquisitions when new titles have been added to the collection
Academic search complete This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multidisciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and others. Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. It offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, astronomy, biology, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion, women's studies, and other fields.
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Featuring full-text articles dating back to 1977, indexing and abstracts from an array of publications, this database is a robust resource for art students and art historians. It covers a variety of topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, folk art, film and architecture.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, biology, ecology, and other fields of the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Project MUSE - Premium Collection
Includes titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. Coverage includes 426 journals by 106 publishers.

BHA& RILA This link opens in a new window
Citations for Art History articles published between 1975 and 2007, compiled from the Bibliography of the History of Art & RILA,
International bibliography of art This link opens in a new window
The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is a resource for scholarly literature on western art. Coverage continues BHA & includes 2008 to the present.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Includes nearly 3 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1743 to the present together with over 1 million full-text dissertations since 1997.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.

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Interlibrary Loan Services
Center for Research Libraries
Dartmouth is a CRL member. CRL holds many newspapers on microfilm and dissertations from foreign countries.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Online access to public domain books and journals published prior to 1923.

Art Discovery Group Catalog
A research gateway to art literature
Europeana
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Explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
Google Books
When you find items in Google Books, check to see if Dartmouth (or Borrow Direct) has the book.

Oxford Art Online
A database of art terminology, encyclopedic entries on artists and works of art, and images. Includes the Grove Dictionary of Art & Benezit.
Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon = International artists database online

Contains information on artists from all over the world and throughout the ages. Articles from all published volumes of the Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon (AKL), plus index data from Thieme-Becker & Vollmer.
AskART Academic
An online database containing over 52,000 American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. Some European artists are now being added.

Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide
Dictionary of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
2nd. edition
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly articles across many disciplines and sources
Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary
The pronunciation help, synonyms, usage and grammar tips set the standard.
Oxford English Dictionary
A complete text of the 2nd. ed. of the Oxford English dictionary with quarterly updates, including revisions not available in any other form.