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Articles

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Art Full Text
Indexes more than 400 key international arts periodicals.   Subject coverage includes, art, art history, archaeology, architecture, design, photography, and other arts related fields.  Full text from 1997 onward is available for select publications.

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Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

International Medieval BibliographyCall Number: Reference D 111 I63
An index of journal articles, conference proceedings, Festschriften, and collected essays covering all aspects of medieval studies from 450 to 1500 on the continent of Europe and the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim Conquest.

Arts and Humanities Search
Indexing of 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.  Citation Index allows searching of bibliographies

Art Index Retrospective
A companion to Art Full Text, this database provides citations to older articles published between 1929 - 1984 in international arts periodicals. 

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexing of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907.  Also has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.

Biographical Information

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
 A comprehensive index to biographical sources. One simultaneous user.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

Dictionary of Art. (Grove Dictionary of Art) Call Number: Reference N 31 D5 1996
This 34 volume set covers all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, and the decorative arts.  It includes articles on visual art from the prehistoric times to the present, biographies of artists, and 15,350 illustrations. Coverage is worldwide in scope--from Oceania to North America to Japan and Africa.

Encyclopedia of the History of Classical ArchaeologyCall Number: Reference DE 5 .E5 1996

Encyclopedia of World Art. Call Number: Reference N 31 E4833

Specialized Sources

Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

Web Sites

Art History Resources on the Web
Links are arranged by time periods, Prehistoric to 20th Century. This site is maintained by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College.