Research Guides: Art

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Art Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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Art Index (H.W. Wilson)
Art Index Mobile
Art Index features high-quality indexing of over 600 periodicals, more than 13,000 art dissertations, and almost 200,000 art reproductions, providing examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database includes a database-specific thesaurus and covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as folk art, photography, film, and architecture.
Coverage: 1984 - present
ARTstor
ARTstor Mobile iPhone App
Approximately 1,000,000 images covering art, architecture, and archeology.
ARTstor Tutorials
Academic Search Premier
Unlike Art Index, Academic Search Premier is a general index covering all subject areas, including over 120 art journals. Many of these provide full text access, including such titles as Afterimage, Journal of Art & Design Education, Art in America, and Ceramics: Art & Perception.
Provided by the KYVL
E-Journals
Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for journals managed through EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS). Includes more than 1200 art journals, including Art History, Journal of Visual Art Practice, Journal of Visual Culture, and Photography & Culture.
JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive
An archive of journals that spans many disciplines. Provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Includes such art-related titles as American Art, Journal of Design History, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin.
JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive Tutorials
MasterFile Premier
Provides full text for general readership periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including not only art, but also general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues. Includes such titles as African Arts, Ceramics Monthly, Design Issues, and American Printer: The Graphic Arts Managers Magazine.
Provided by the KYVL
Project Muse
Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities, arts and social sciences. A non-profit collaboration from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. Includes a number of art and art-related journals, such as Archives of Asian Art, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Leonardo.
Coverage: 1995 - present
Project Muse Tutorials
Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
Provides bibliographic indexing of sources in the humanities. Features articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, and reviews. Includes such titles as Art in America, Art Bulletin, and Art Journal.
Coverage: 1984 - present
Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) Tutorials
Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)
Ancient times to present. With links to every article focused on any individual in nearly every WilsonWeb database, Biography Reference Bank covers over 500,000 people, including artists of all stripes, and over 36,000 images.
Coverage: Ancient times to present

The Art Research Guide is maintained by Rob Zai. Suggestions and comments are welcome.