Design Library
HOURS for November 27, 2020: Closed
Databases for the Design Library
Description:
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. Includes a database-specific thesaurus and covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as folk art, photography, film, and architecture.
Please note: Limited to eight simultaneous users.
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Vendor Name EBSCOhost: H. W. Wilson
Coverage 1980 - present
Update Frquency monthly
Special Usage Notes
This database does not provide direct links to the full-text of the article cited. For other electronic access options, use the 
button that appears below the citation in your search results (more information). To see if we own a paper copy of the item, search the title in the InfoKat Discovery Library Catalog. If we do not own the item in any format, and you are a UK-affiliate, you may request the item through ILLiad.
Resource Types All Relevant Database(s), Key Database(s)
Description:
Cumulates citations to volumes 1-32 of the printed Art Index. Provides users index access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews.
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Vendor Name EBSCOhost: H. W. Wilson
Coverage 1929 - 1984
Special Usage Notes
This database does not provide direct links to the full-text of the article cited. For other electronic access options, use the button that appears below the citation in your search results (more information). To see if we own a paper copy of the item, search the title in the InfoKat Discovery Library Catalog. If we do not own the item in any format, and you are a UK-affiliate, you may request the item through ILLiad.
Resource Types All Relevant Database(s), Key Database(s)
Description:
Abstracts and indexes English and foreign-language journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The database covers modern and contemporary arts, dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. Includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
You may also search this database in a combined search with International Bibliography of Art.
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Vendor Name ProQuest
Coverage 1974 - present [with some entries as far back as the late 1960s]
Update Frquency six times a year
Special Usage Notes
Resource Types All Relevant Database(s), Key Database(s)
Description:
Multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. In addition to searching by author, title keywords, subject terms and author addresses, you can also search by the specific references and works (e.g., art works, musical scores, books) that the indexed articles cite. Links to Cited References and Times Cites (with links to the citing article if it is included in the database) are available in each record. A&HCI covers over 1,700 core journals plus selected articles from social science and scientific publications that are relevant to arts and humanities topics. Topics include Archaeology, Linguistics, Architecture, Literary Reviews, Art, Literature, Asian Studies, Music, Classics, Philosophy, Dance, Poetry, Folklore, Radio, Television, Film, History, Religion, Language and Theatre.
Access via Web of Science Core Collection.
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Vendor Name Web of Science / Clarivate Analytics
Coverage 1975 - present; abstracts 2000 - present
Update Frquency weekly
Special Usage Notes
For electronic access options, use the button that appears below the citation in your search results (more information). To see if we own a paper copy of the item, search the title in InfoKat Discovery. If we do not own the item in any format, and you are a UK-affiliate, you may request the item through ILLiad.
Please note: If you get a blank results screen and are using older Internet Explorer versions, please use the Compatibility View option to resolve the display problem. This option is found under Tools or as an icon resembling a torn page near the URL bar. You need do this only once for Web of Science on your computer. For more details about Compatibility View, see the Microsoft knowledgebase.
Resource Types All Relevant Database(s), Key Database(s)
5 ARTstor
Description:
Provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Currently contains approximately 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data; the tools to make active use of those images; and a restricted environment that seeks to balance the interests and needs of users with those of content providers. Images can be used for teaching and research in art history, as well as - more broadly - in the humanities and other disciplines.
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Vendor Name Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Special Usage Notes
Please note: For some users, mainly those on PCs, it will be necessary to install software such as 7Zip to unzip ARTstor downloads.
ARTstor offers tools that enable users to create personal folders and then share contents of those folders with other University users in a password-protected environment. The Offline Image Viewer, which is downloadable to the user's desktop, allows the import of ARTstor images as well as images from other sources to create a slideshow comparable to, but more functional than, a PowerPoint presentation.
ARTstor will interoperate with learning management systems like WebCT and Blackboard by allowing users to create stable URLs that permit linking from a learning management system or course website to ARTstor images or image groups.
To obtain full access to ARTstor, users should register and create individual logons by clicking in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Instructors who want to create shared image folders should contact the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library (257-2800) or Design Library (257-4305) to receive the necessary authorization codes.
Please note: Pop-ups must be ENABLED when using ARTstor.
Resource Types Image Collection, Key Database(s)
Description:
Indexes the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.d
Subject coverage:
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Architectural design
- City planning
- Furniture and decoration
- Historic preservation
- History of architecture
- Interior design
- Landscape architecture
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Vendor Name ProQuest
Coverage Some selective coverage from 1741; 1934 - present
Update Frquency Weekly
Special Usage Notes
Resource Types All Relevant Database(s), Key Database(s)
Description:
Indexes and abstracts (in English or French) articles (from over 4,800 journals), art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. Encompasses fine arts—painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture—as well as decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art. Special subject indexing covers persons, places, institutions, buildings, works of art, and topical subjects, with most subject terms in both English and French. Includes the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009, and the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975–1989. For current coverage, see the International Bibliography of Art.
Access Information Free resource - available to everyone on the Internet
Vendor Name J. Paul Getty Trust
Coverage 1975 - 2007
Special Usage Notes
Resource Types All Relevant Database(s)
