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Art and Architecture
- Project Muse - A selective full text database of nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Dates of coverage are variable - few journals go back farther than 1995.
- Academic Search Complete - Indexes nearly 3,200 magazines and journals in covering areas of academic study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Full text / full image is approximately 60%. Date coverage is highly various by journal title, in some cases going back to 1984 but usually no more than 1993-present. You can restrict results to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals by clicking the appropriate box.
- ProQuest Research Library - Four major newspapers (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Barron’s) and over 1,800 magazines and journals in all subject areas are indexed in this combined database. Full text / full image is approximately 50%. The database is divided into current (1999-present) and backfile (1987-1998), and only one date category may be searched at a time. You can restrict results to scholarly journals (peer-reviewed publications) by checking the appropriate box. Unless your topic is very obscure, you will probably get better results by changing "Article Text" (the default on the third pull-down menu) to "Citations and abstracts."
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- AHSearch (Arts & Humanities Citation Index) - Another FirstSearch database, this one provided by the Institute for Scientific Information, indexes over 1,300 journals in the arts and humanities going back to 1980. Abstracts are occasionally provided; comprehensive lists of cited references are included with each article citation. Most of the journals indexed are not held in Killam Library, and many are not in English. As always when using a FirstSearch database, please be sure to log out when you are finished, using the Exit link in the blue box on the left side of the screen.
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Wilson Select Plus - another FirstSearch database, this one selectively combines all the other H.W. Wilson databases (including Art Abstracts and Humanities Abstracts, both no longer available through FirstSearch) and indexes over 1,600 journals in the all subject areas (including art and the humanities) going back to 1984. As always when using a FirstSearch database, please be sure to log out when you are finished, using the Exit link in the blue box on the left side of the screen.
- PsycINFO - This is the comprehensive database in psychology, useful for art therapy and related topics. Some full-text
is provided.
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The main print reference source for art is The Dictionary of Art (Ref N 31 .D5), which is not a dictionary but a comprehensive 34-volume encyclopedia. Unfortunately, the illustrations are all black-and-white.
Print resources for art in general will be found in the Library of Congress classifications N-NZ, along the walls of the Great Room on the 3rd floor. Classification N encompasses visual arts in general, art history, art criticism, and special kinds of art such as portraiture and religious art. Classification NA includes architecture; NB sculpture; NC drawing, design, and illustration; ND painting; NE print media; NK decorative arts and crafts; and NX covers the arts, including the performing arts, as a general category or considered in combination. More books on the arts of different cultures may be found in the anthropology area, GN25, on the 4th floor. Photography is classified under TR, which has its own section in the middle of the Great Room.
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