Art & Architecture
ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art & Archaeology Index The ABIA Index is a bibliographic database on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology compiled by an international team of specialists.
_______________________ Abstracts of International Conservation Literature AATA is a comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts and bibliographic records of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
_______________________ Année Philologique L'Annee philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.
_______________________ ArchNet Digital Library ArchNet contains thousands of images with accompaning text for historical monuments and contemporary architecture in dozens of countries.
_______________________ Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online A database of terms and definitions for describing, indexing, and accessing information on the visual arts and architecture.
_______________________ Art Full Text Wilson Art Abstracts indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in the arts, as well as expanded coverage of European, Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
_______________________ Art Index Retrospective Provides access to over 50 years of citations from hundreds of the leading art periodicals and magazines.
_______________________ Artcyclopedia: the Fine Arts Search Engine Indexes over 1200 arts sites on the web, and offers more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists.
_______________________ Artfact Index of 4 million public auction sale results from more than 350 auction houses.
_______________________ ArtLex Art Dictionary Provides definitions for more than 3,500 terms used in discussing visual culture, along with pictorial examples of art object images, arranged in chronological groups.
_______________________ Arts and Humanities Citation Index A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities (available in ISI Web of Science).
_______________________ Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Index of 2,500 international journals published worldwide on architecture and urban design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.
_______________________ BEOnline Plus Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library
of Congress reference staff
- Business and Economics Web sites
- Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
- International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
- Science and Technology Web sites
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_______________________Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network BCIN contains nearly 200,000 citations covering the areas of conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.
_______________________ Bibliography of the History of Art Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.
_______________________ British Library Images Online Search or browse (by subject or title) thousands of images from the British Library’s collections.
_______________________ Catalog of Art Museum Images Online CAMIO documents works of art from around the world.
_______________________ Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online CAMEO contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.
_______________________ Credo Reference : Art Includes the full text of over 20 reference sources about art, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and biographies.
_______________________ Design and Applied Arts Index Contains data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops and firms from more than 500 design and craft journals.
_______________________ E-Journals in Art, Architecture & Applied Arts Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
_______________________ Early English Books Online EEBO contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
_______________________ European ARTNET European-artnet provides information on contemporary artists, their activities, presentations in museums or galleries as well as photos and texts.
_______________________ Flickr An online photo management and sharing application containing images crossing all subject areas.
_______________________ FRANCIS The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).
_______________________ Getty Provenance Index® Databases The databases contain indexed transcriptions of material from auction catalogs and archival inventories of western European works of art, and contain nearly 1,000,000 records that cover the period from the late 16th century to the early 20th century.
_______________________ Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) A database of modern and historical names, coordinates, and descriptions of geographic places, arranged in hierarchical order.
_______________________ Home Economics Archive HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950.
_______________________ Humanities Full Text Wilson Humanities Abstracts covers over 465 sources in archaeology, food, philosophy, art, journalism, religion, classics, linguistics, space, film, music, world history, folklore, performing arts, and world literature.
_______________________ Index to Current Urban Documents ICUD contains reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major cities in the United States and Canada.
_______________________ Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals Index to 42 art journals published in the United States during the 19th century covering articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements.
_______________________ Informedesign Database of articles for design and human behavior research from over 100 refereed journals.
_______________________ National Register Information System The NRIS database contains information on each of the historic properties listed in or determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
_______________________ Nineteenth Century Searchable database of more than 25,000 separate titles of English-language works on microfiche first published between 1801-1900 and available at the Library of Congress.
_______________________ Oxford Art Online Formerly Grove Art Online, the database contains over 45,000 articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art (editor Jane Turner, 1996: 34 vols) on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.
_______________________ Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
_______________________ PapersFirst Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
_______________________ Perseus Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece A multimedia interactive database designed to facilitate the study of archaic and classical Greece and to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology can be examined.
_______________________ Picturing America Provides high-quality reproductions and images of notable American art.
_______________________ SCIPIO Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held.
_______________________ Structurae International Database and Gallery of Structures Showcases the works and art of structural engineering and, to some extent, architecture from around the world.
_______________________ TASI Digital Image Archives Search the Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) database to identify a wide range of digital image collections and projects.
_______________________ Textile Dictionary A browsable dictionary subdivided into: Cotton fibres, Standard Worsted and Wool Fibres, Standard Silk and Silk Imitation Fibres, Specialty Fibres, Plant Fibres, Manmade Fibres and Miscellaneous Fibres.
_______________________ Union List of Artist Names ULAN is a database of preferred and variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations relating to artists and architects.
_______________________ Web Gallery of Art The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the 12th-18th centuries.
_______________________ William Blake Archive The Blake Archive contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of 27 copies of 16 of Blake's 19 illuminated works.
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