ART475A -- Art of the Book

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: PlattCat ("Search Feinberg" link on the Library Homepage)

Beyond Feinberg Library: WorldCat [ about ] ("Search Worldwide" link on the Library Homepage)

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:

Academic Search Premier (about)
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive -- Complete archives of 411 core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences   (list of art & art history journals included)

Project MUSE
250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering many fields in the humanities and social sciences.   (list of book history 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 Full Text (list of journals included)
Full text peer-selected publications with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. MUST check the Art Full Text box once you are logged on to WilsonWeb.

ARTstor (help guides) (YouTube tutorials)
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains nearly 1,000,000 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 Cit. Index
Indexes bibliographies in arts and humanities journals.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Artcyclopedia (about) -- a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. We have started out by covering the biggest and best sites around, and have links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for hours. Update January/2006: We have now indexed over 2,300 art sites, and offer over 95,000 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 Scholar and/or Book Search (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 02/17/2009.