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COURSE RELATED RESEARCH
INSTRUCTION
Course Name: ART475A -- Art of the Book
Course
Instructor: Professor Karen Blough
Session
Librarian: Tim Hartnett
Session Date: February 14, 2006
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
(Subject-specific encyclopedias)
Find subject encyclopedias
in the Reference Room of Feinberg Library by using the Advanced Search
mode of the Library Catalog by subject using terms
such as "encyclopedia*" and "art". Also Limit
by collection to "Reference Coll." The most
comprehensive and scholarly of all art encyclopedias is
The [Grove] Dictionary
of Art (36 volumes) -- Ref. N31 .D5 1996
BOOKS
Within Feinberg Library: Feinberg
Library Catalog
Beyond Feinberg Library: WorldCat
(about)
Search Tips:
a. start with specific word or phrase (e.g. Moby Dick,
Rockwell Kent)
b. broaden to topic as necessary (e.g. lithography,
woodblock)
PERIODICAL ARTICLES ONLINE
GENERAL:
EBSCO
MasterFILE Select (choose EBSCOhost Web
followed by MasterFILE Select)
Full-text for 765 periodicals covering many subjects including
general reference, business, and health.
InfoTrac
OneFile
Indexes a wide variety of periodicals. Full-text of many articles
available.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive -- Complete archives of 411
core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences
(list of music journals
included)
Project MUSE -- "...online access to over 300 high quality
humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly
publishers."
(list of music
journals included)
ProQuest
Periodical Abstracts Research II
Search Periodical Abstracts II for information from over 1800 newspapers
and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business,
humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.
Wilson
Omnifile Full Text Select
Full-text access to hundreds of magazines and journals. Covers from 1994
to present.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC:
Art
Abstracts
Comprehensive index to art
journals from 1984 to present.
ARTstor
(getting started guide )
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains
approximately 300,000 images. The Collection documents artistic
traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture,
painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as
many other forms of visual culture.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index -- Indexes bibliographies in arts
and humanities journals.
The following links provide menus of
the many other databases available through Feinberg Library's database
menus.
Alphabetical
Database Menu ( by Database Name)
Subject Database
Menu (by Database Scope)
Full-text
Menu (Databases that include the full-text of articl
SELECTED WEB SITES
Artcyclopedia
(about)
-- a comprehensive index of every
artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other
online resources. [It] started out by covering the biggest and best sites
around, and [has] links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for
hours. Update January/2006: [It has] now indexed over 2,100
art sites, and offer over 75,000 links
to an estimated 180,000 artworks by 8,200
renowned artists.
WEB DIRECTORIES & SEARCH ENGINES
Google --
"Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, is the first
of its kind and represents the most comprehensive collection of the most
useful web pages on the Internet." TIP: Use the
Advanced
Search and/or Google Scholar (under
the More >> link)
options.
Vivisimo
-- "automatically organizes search or database query results into
meaningful hierarchical folders completely on-the-fly,
out-of-the-box."
This page was prepared by librarian Tim
Hartnett and last updated on
02/13/2006. |
