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Databases on Your Topic: Arts & Humanities

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Humanities E-books
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  Humanities E-Books (HEB) is a fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. These are works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
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  HEB is an online collection of approximately 4,000 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These titles are offered by the ACLS in collaboration with thirty learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division at the University of Michigan Library.

How to Use This Guide

Welcome to the Simmons Library guide to resources in Art. Use the links in the table of contents or the tabs at the top of the page to find definitions, topic overviews, images, books, articles and more that will help you with your research.

If you don't find what you are looking for or need help navigating this guide, don't hesitate to contact the author of this guide or Ask a Librarian.

Good luck with your research!

Getting To Know Your Topic

Background sources--like dictionaries and subject encyclopedias--provide contextual information and answer straight-forward questions. They include definitions, statistics and other details. You can use this type of source to help narrow your research topic, find data to support your thesis and identify keywords and main ideas to use as search terms.

Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online provides simultaneous access to a wide range of authoritative online art resources, including reference works, specially commissioned articles and bibliographies.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a searchable collection of over 500 reference books across a wide variety of subjects from top publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Wiley and Elsevier. Credo also includes the Bridgeman Art Library Archive, which is a good source of images.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a searchable online general reference collection. You can search across all the reference books or select a subject area.

Recommended Web Resources

There are a lot of great resources on the web where you can find information about Art as well as collections of images. Have fun exploring!

Archives of American Art
The Archive holds more than thirteen million items consisting of the papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators and the records of art dealers, museums and other art-related businesses, institutions and organizations, including the digitized catalog of Jackson Pollock's first one-person show at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery Art of This Century, held from Nov. 9-27, 1943.
Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
A comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Includes abstracts of international conservation literature.
Artcyclopedia
Index to more than 1,200 sites related to the arts, including links to more than 32,000 works by 7,500 artists. The works can be browsed or searched by artist, title or museum.
Art History Resources on the Web
Maintained by a professor at Virginia College, this site includes links to information about artists, periods and much more.
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago collects, preserves, and interprets works of art of the highest quality, representing the world's diverse artistic traditions, for the inspiration and education of the public.
The Art Newspaper
Online newspaper devoted to art and art resources.
Bibliography of the History of Art
Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer catalogs as well as articles on the history of Western art. The BHA file covers items from 1975-2007.
Boston Art Commission Interactive Map
The Boston Art Commission advocates for creative place-making through the integration of public art into Boston’s civic spaces. Use the Interactive Map to find specific locations of public art throughout Boston. Click on each marker for more information on each piece; click through to go to the specific art page for that item.
The Café Review
The Cafe Review is a quarterly journal of poetry, art and reviews that is based in Portland, Maine and has been published for over twenty years. Click on the Art Gallery link at the top of the page for extensive images of contemporary art.
Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art
The ICAA Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive provides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.
Guggenheim eBooks
The Guggenheim Museum has digitized many of its out-of-print publications and is offering them free. This is a treasure of art literature as well as great book cover design.
ipl2: Fine Arts
This site provides links to web resources chosen and organized by librarians.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world. A description and images are included in each entry.
Mother of all Art and Art History Links Pages
Created by Patrick Young at the University of Michigan, this site includes a vast array of links to research resources, art museums, textual and linguistic resources and much more.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Find information on specific works of art, periods, and more.
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art's was established in 1937 as an independent bureau within the Smithsonian Institution. Its website includes a wealth of information about its collection.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America's rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today.

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What's In This Guide

Use the tabs above or the links below to navigate this guide. And remember, Help! is only a click away!

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Databases on Your Topic: Arts & Humanities

Humanities E-Books

How to Use This Guide

Welcome to the Simmons Library guide to resources in Art. Use the links in the table of contents or the tabs at the top of the page to find definitions, topic overviews, images, books, articles and more that will help you with your research.

If you don't find what you are looking for or need help navigating this guide, don't hesitate to contact the author of this guide or Ask a Librarian.

Good luck with your research!

Getting To Know Your Topic

Recommended Web Resources

There are a lot of great resources on the web where you can find information about Art as well as collections of images. Have fun exploring!

Meet Your Librarian

Helpful Simmons Resources

See Student Portfolios!