Libguide Subject Guide for Art & Art History (Preview)
Background Information
-
Oxford Art Online [Oxford University Press] - Scholarly art encyclopedias and a dictionary of art terms.
-
Gale Virtual Reference [Gale] - Scholarly encyclopedias in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Art Images
-
ARTstor [ARTstor] - digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
-
Saskia Art Images [Saskia] - more than 32,000 art images from over one hundred museums worldwide.
-
CAMIO [OCLC] - more than 95,000 art images from prominent museums around the world.
Books, eBooks, DVDs, CDs, etc.
-
Start with PrinCat to search for Principia College library materials.
-
Use I-Share to expand your search to include other academic libraries in Illinois. Requested materials usually arrive within 3-5 days.
-
Use WorldCat if you need to expand your search beyond I-Share. WorldCat materials are available through interlibrary loan. They usually arrive within 7-14 days.
-
Use ebrary to find over 70,000 academic eBooks.
Journal Articles
-
JSTOR [JSTOR] - academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
-
Academic Search Premier [EBSCOHost] - more than 4,600 scholarly, popular, and trade journals from multiple disciplines.
-
Project Muse [Johns Hopkins University Press] - select collection of academic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
-
For additional resources, see the Find Articles page.
Current Newspapers and Other News Sources
-
LexisNexis Academic [LexisNexis] - International, national and local news sources including the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times.
-
For additional news sources, see the News Sources page.
Conference Papers and Proceedings
-
PapersFirst [OCLC FirstSearch] - Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
-
ProceedingsFirst [OCLC FirstSearch] - Index of conference proceedings worldwide.
Special Collections Available on the Internet
