LibGuides: Art: Databases

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Art Databases

Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Also included are more than 800 (and growing) in-depth, original profiles of important artist and indexing and substantive abstracting of over 18,000 art dissertations. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1984-present.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Provides an in-depth record of contemporary art history and enables users to access over half a century of art literature. In addition to the leading English-language art journals, coverage includes covers publications in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1929-1984.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Coverage of over 1,200 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 6,000 scientific and social sciences journals, with coverage available to 1975. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Offering multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources across a wide range of disciplines. Terms of Use.
Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window A scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. Through partnerships with major organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Resource, Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and more, Grove Art Online offers over 5,000 searchable and embedded art images, maps, and line drawings. The resource also provides over 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries around the world. Terms of Use. Restricted to 3 users at a time.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window Cross-search Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Grove Art Online. Terms of Use. Restricted to 3 users at a time.

General Databases
Newspaper Databases

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Coverage includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Sources include more than academic 8,000 journals offering broad subject coverage in areas of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1980-present.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary partial full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,650. Coverage in the subject areas of biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1975-present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary ebook and journal platform to support scholarship and teaching. Provides access to select current subscriptions as well as the archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Terms of Use.
OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window Serves as a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content from six full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text Mega, Social Sciences Full Text, and Business Abstracts with Full Text. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1982-present.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over one million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1637-present.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Provides access to the worlds leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Index - Science, Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1898-present.

Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1988) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1849-1988.
Christian Science Monitor Historical (1908-1998) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1908-1998.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, presenting a comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 1.8 million articles from more than 315 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1990-present.
Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1985-present.
Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-1988) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1881-1988.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers and selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Additional coverage includes full-text television and radio news transcripts provided from such sources as CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR, among others. List of Titles. Terms of Use.
New York Times Historical (1851-2008) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The database may be searched by topic, date, or article type (article, photo, comic, birth/death/marriage notice, display ad, film review, etc.). Terms of Use. Coverage: 1851-2008.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1984-present.
Wall Street Journal Historical (1889-1994) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1889-1994.
Washington Post Historical (1877-1995) This link opens in a new window Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue and offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1877-1995.