Visual Arts


Selected Purdue Libraries Databases for Resources in Art

Dissertations and Theses

Dissertation Abstracts: The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Digital Dissertations receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.

Coverage: 1861 – present. Update Frequency: Continuous. Information Type(s): Theses & Dissertations

Books and other library materials from libraries worldwide

WorldCat: is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind (58 million quality records and counting).
WorldCat-listed resources span thousands of years and nearly every form of human expression. Records exist for everything from stone tablets to electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites. Whether an item is physical or digitally preserved, popular or one-of-a-kind, the integrity of its record is maintained by the input of cataloging members, our standards and qualtiy control.

Coverage: prior to 1000 B.C.E. Update Frequency: Continuous. Information Type(s): Library and Archival materials.

Journal articles, etc.

Art Bibliographies Modern: Coverage of articles, monographs, dissertations, museum catalogues, etc. for modern and contemporary studies in art history, critical theory and criticism, industrial design, photography, fine arts, graphic arts, and aesthetics. International in scope, this database includes other valuable language sources; i.e. French, German, Italian, etc.

Coverage: 1974 – present. Update Frequency: Six times a year. Information Type(s): Books/Book Chapters, Images, Theses & Dissertations.

Art Index / Full Text: Art Index indexes articles from English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Subjects include Architecture, Art History, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video and more. Partial full-text coverage is available in OmniFile Full Text.

Coverage: 1984 – present. U pdate Frequency: Continuous Information Type(s): Journal Article Indexes.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index: Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Searches may focus on authors, contents of individual journals, ranges of publications dates, keywords, and by combinations of the above. An added feature is the capacity to trace citations to given authors, etc. A representative selection of non-English language journals is included.

Coverage: Since 1977-present. Update Frequency: Continuous Information Type(s): Books/Book Chapters, Journal Article Indexes, Undefined.

Humanities Abstracts / Full Text (use OmniFile Full Text): Humanities Abstracts / Full Text is included in OmniFile Full Text, which is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text from hundreds of journals in multiple subject areas. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full-text rights to individual journals may vary.

Coverage: 1984 – present. Update Frequency: Weekly Information Type(s): Journal Article Indexes.

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) Full-Text: This database indexes the contents of over 2,750 journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from the inception of each journal to issues published as recently as 5 years ago. The full-text contents of approximately 300 journals are currently available, and are keyword searchable. Links to full-texts in JSTOR are also provided. PCI's scope is world-wide and includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and other Western languages.

Coverage: 1770 - 1990 Upate Frequency: Continuously Information Type(s): Journal Article Indexes

Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles

TDNet: This databasemanages access to electronic journals for the Purdue University Libraries, including titles in index databases. It provides access points to full-text articles within other databases the Purdue University Libraries subscribes as well as individual electronic journals.

JSTOR : Full-text digital archive of over 450 scholarly journals, especially strong in Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Mathematics. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR

Specific JSTOR Resources ( JSTOR access is provided by Purdue University)

Architecture & Architectural History

Art & Art History

 

Scholarly Societies and Associations

Art History

  • Art History: A thorough guide to Interent Resources from the University of Delaware Library.
  • Art History Resources on the Web: By Chris Witcombe of Sweet Briar College, this site contains a variety of information from Prehistoric Art through the 20th-Century.
  • Art Links on the World Wide Web: Maintained by Jeffery Howe of Boston College, this is a comprehensive well organized collection of links.
  • Artcyclopedia.Com: Created by John Malyon, this project has as its mission to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. The project has compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
  • Daguerreotypes at Harvard: The Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library. Since the invention of photography in 1839, libraries, museums, research institutes, and academic departments at Harvard and Radcliffe have created and collected photographs for use in research and instruction. Among these millions of images are more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, the first publicly-announced photographic process. COPYRIGHT and FAIR USE
  • Dictionary of Art Historians: From the Lilly Library of Duke University comes this sound selection for general art topics and definitions..
  • Research Library of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities: collects and assembles primary and secondary materials to stimulate and support advanced research. Records for all Research Library materials are available online via the Library Catalog. Two resources that supplement information contained in the catalog are the Special Collections Finding Aids and the Photo Study Collection Database.
  • Timeline of Art History: Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a multifacetted full text history timeline for the world of art.
  • Warwick Art History Web: From the University of Warwick this site links to large resource listings in a wide range of areas, to online encyclopedias and databases, and to organizations and libraries.

Art & Design

Tutorial

Self-guided tutorial in Art Studies: by Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel, Purdue University.

Typography


Other Resources

  • Academic Search Premier: General information from journals, magazines, and newspapers in all subject areas.
  • Directory of Published Proceedings: DoPP provides information on locating and procuring published proceedings from conferences in many fields, including sciences, medicine, ecology, and humanities.
  • Eighteenth Century Collections online:Full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English-language and foreign-language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century, 1701-1800.
  • Index Islamicus:Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.
  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance:Iter Bibliography indexes books and journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400 - 1700 A.D.) Over 1,346 journals are indexed.
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