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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Humanities Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, interviews; original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; reviews of books, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs; biographies, and more. H. W. Wilson
Humanities International CompleteMore than 2,000 journals and 2 million records, plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Full text for more than 730 journals. EBSCOhost
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

AC - Collections. Series. Collected works N - Visual Arts
NA - Architecture NB - Sculpture
NC - Graphic Arts. Drawing. Design. Illustration ND - Painting
NE - Print Media NK - Decorative Arts
NX - History and Theory of Art. Arts in General. TR - Photography

Reference books

BookCall number
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art (online book)A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Dictionary of Art (Grove) (34 volumes)REF N31 .D5 1996
Encyclopedia of World ArtREF N31 .E4833
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (online book)The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (online book)The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
The Oxford Companion to Western Art (online book)The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Web resources

Art History Resources on the Web
ArtSource
Getty Museum Art Education
International Arts Resources from Artslynx
National Endowment for the Arts
Smithsonian Institution