OneSearch
Use OneSearch to search across almost all of the library's databases at once for newspaper, magazine, and scholarly journal articles, as well as books and DVDs.
Tips for Searching Library Databases
Start with the databases to your right to locate scholarly articles and remember the following tips:
- Limit results to full-text.
- Look for peer-reviewed journals.
- Check your spelling!
- Select PDF over HTML format.
- Check references or bibliographies to expand your search.
- Look at subject terms to identify new keywords.
Find Background Information
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Over one million images of fine art, pottery, cultural materials, architecture and more from various time periods and cultures. - Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Find background information and learn the main ideas of your topic in this collection of over 900 reference books, including dictionaries and encyclopedias. - Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive art encyclopedia featuring artist biographies, defintions of art terms, images of artwork representing diverse media, and more.
Best Database for Scholarly Articles in Visual Arts
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, and sciences, with an embargo for current issues of 2-5 years.
Try These, Too
- ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) This link opens in a new window
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Find abstracts and citations for journals and books covering all forms of art from the late 19th century to present. No full text.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Open access (freely accessible), quality, peer-reviewed academic journals covering all subjects.
- Duke Journals This link opens in a new window
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Journals in the humanities and social sciences from Duke University Press. - Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles in the social sciences, law, humanities, life sciences, economics, mathematical and physical sciences, and medicine. - Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new window
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The first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels.
General Databases
Great for any subject!
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