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ARTstor
A digital collection of more than a half-million high quality art images relevant to the arts, humanities and social sciences. Students can search, browse, and zoom in to study images in high detail, as well as print, save and use them in PowerPoint presentations.
 
Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online)
Oxford Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes, covering all aspects of the visual arts of every civilization from prehistory to the 1990s) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
 
Art Full Text
Provides indexing, abstracting and full text access to contemporary art worldwide with special emphasis given to developments in Canadian, Latin America, Asian and other non-western art, exhibition reviews and feminism criticism. Coverage from 1997. Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
 
SIRS Renaissance
Part of the SIRS Knowledge Source database, SIRS Renaissance contains journal, magazine and news articles on the arts and humanities. Full-text articles and Internet resources are from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations.
 
Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online)
An integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Contains over 500 musical examples in sound as well as notated examples. Includes over 3000 links to related sites including sound archives and illustrations, illustrations and musical examples.
 
AHSearch - See Information Desk (Library 2nd floor) for access information.
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from social science and science journals. Also provides access to bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews and more. Coverage 1980 to present depending on title. Updated weekly.
 
Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database that provides access to 10,900 journals and other publications, over 5,300 of which contain full-text and 4,400 of which are peer-reviewed. The majority of full text articles offer searchable PDF format. Content dates back as far as 1865.
 
Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete includes indexing and abstracts of over 1,700 journals, with full text for 670 of those. Worldwide coverage pertains to all humanities disciplines.
 
Humanities Full Text
Covers literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology. Provides access to full text articles from 230 journals as far back as 1995. Includes interviews, obituaries, book eviews, reviews of plays, radio and television programs, motion pictures, dance programs, musicals, plays and more. Indexing and abstracting provided for additional titles from 1984.
 
JSTOR
Provides access to back issues of hundreds of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's rchival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
 
ProjectMUSE
Offers full-text access to over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Includes both current issues and an archive.
 
Biography Resource Center

Contains more than 422,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people as well as full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines specifically chosen for their renowned biographical content in a broad range of subject areas.

 
Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus)
Reference source consisting of more than 160 sources from a variety of publishers. Includes The Bloomsbury Guide to Art, Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture, Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists, Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers, and more. It also includes a vast collection of art images.
 
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Searchable collection of over 175 full text dictionaries and encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press. Art coverage includes The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, A Dictionary of Modern Design, The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture, The Oxford Companion to the Garden, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

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