Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

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.

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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.

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Année Philologique ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
L'Annee philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.

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ArchNet Digital Library
ArchNet contains thousands of images with accompaning text for historical monuments and contemporary architecture in dozens of countries.

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Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
A database of terms and definitions for describing, indexing, and accessing information on the visual arts and architecture.

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Art Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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Art Index Retrospective Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to over 50 years of citations from hundreds of the leading art periodicals and magazines.

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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.

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Artfact ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of 4 million public auction sale results from more than 350 auction houses.

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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.

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Arts and Humanities Citation Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities (available in ISI Web of Science).

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of 2,500 international journals published worldwide on architecture and urban design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.

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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.

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Bibliography of the History of Art Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.

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British Library Images Online
Search or browse (by subject or title) thousands of images from the British Library’s collections.

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Catalog of Art Museum Images Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
CAMIO documents works of art from around the world.

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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.

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Credo Reference : Art Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over 20 reference sources about art, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and biographies.

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Design and Applied Arts Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops and firms from more than 500 design and craft journals.

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E-Journals in Art, Architecture & Applied Arts ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.

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Early English Books Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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European ARTNET
European-artnet provides information on contemporary artists, their activities, presentations in museums or galleries as well as photos and texts.

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Flickr
An online photo management and sharing application containing images crossing all subject areas.

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FRANCIS Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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%).

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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.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
A database of modern and historical names, coordinates, and descriptions of geographic places, arranged in hierarchical order.

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Home Economics Archive
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950.

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Humanities Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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Index to Current Urban Documents ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index to 42 art journals published in the United States during the 19th century covering articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements.

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Informedesign
Database of articles for design and human behavior research from over 100 refereed journals.

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Life Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.

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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.

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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.

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Oxford Art Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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.

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PapersFirst Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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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.

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Picturing America ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides high-quality reproductions and images of notable American art.

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SCIPIO Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held.

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Structurae International Database and Gallery of Structures
Showcases the works and art of structural engineering and, to some extent, architecture from around the world.

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TASI Digital Image Archives
Search the Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) database to identify a wide range of digital image collections and projects.

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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.

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Union List of Artist Names
ULAN is a database of preferred and variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations relating to artists and architects.

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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.

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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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