Art
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Finding Articles:
Art Abstracts (Art Abstracts is the online version of the Art Index)
Broad coverage of over 300 arts journals. Includes coverage of museum bulletins, yearbooks, exhibition listings, competitions and awards. Coverage is from 1984 to date. The print equivalent is 1929 to date. (Main Reference NX 20.A77)
The database is restricted to one user at a time.
Cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. Features citations to articles from American and foreign periodicals and museum bulletins dealing with the arts and related disciplines such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, fine arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, films and museums. Coverage: 1929 - 1984
ARTbibliographies Modern
Begun in 1969, this extensive index includes citations and abstracts of articles appearing in international art, photography, design, and architecture journals. It indexes various museum catalogs as well.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Extensive indexing of journals in all of the arts and humanities including dance, film, folklore, theater, etc.
Bibliography of the History of Art - BHA
Indexing approximately 2500 American and European art journals, this data base also surveys conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition catalogs and much more. Coverage is from 1973 to the present. The BHA was formed by the merger in 1991 of RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archaeologie). BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessors.
Academic Search Complete
(use this database to locate full text articles for citations from Art Abstracts)
Covers a broad range of disciplines including general academic, business, social sciences, humanities, general sciences, education, and multi-cultural topics. Offers full-text coverage for 1,000 journals and indexing for 3,000 journals.
Dissertations Abstracts-full texted.
Index of all doctoral dissertations and some master's theses from most North American and many European colleges and universities. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
Includes full text of dissertations from 1996 to present. NOTE: Some full text is not available due to restrictions placed by the author, patents pending or problems regarding use of copyrighted material without permission.
SEARCH TIP FOR UA DISSERTATIONS:
Type "university of arizona" (with quotes) in the School name search box.
Or use the Current Research @ University of Arizona subset of this database.
Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content with coverage of over 1,900 titles dating as far back as 1925. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index.
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library, material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. The database contains more than 241,000 records. Coverage: 1906-present. No print equivalent.
The database contains a portion of the back files of the Index of Christian Art. The database contains both text and image yet due to copyright laws, their use is restricted for public use. The database contains three main types of files--Word of Art Records, Subject Records (the classification terms used to index the works of art) and Bibliographic Records (citations which support the above two files). These three files may be used independently or in combination. As of August 7, 2000, the database contains: 23,485 Works of Art records 27,165 Subject records and 18,488 Bibliographic records.
Coverage: The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400.
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals (AAI) is the only online index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. The journals indexed represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. Since entire journal contents are indexed - articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements - the index is a valuable source of information on popular culture and industry, as well as artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting. The file includes nearly 27,000 records. Coverage: 1840-1907.
The JSTOR project seeks to develop online access to the full back files of selected journals. The database contains a digitized image of every page and is searchable by every word. The UA Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science Collections and Language & Literature Collection.
19th Century Masterfile. Indexing of magazines and periodical literature published in the U.S. and Britain in the nineteenth century. Covers all subjects of interest and the author index leads to the writings of many famous American and British writers. 1802-1906
Yale University Arts of the Book Digital Library
Research needs primary source documents. The supposedly unimportant, ephemeral materials used to advertise exhibitions, lectures, and new publications are often the only record of these events. Ephemera files, like those in the Arts of the Book Collection (AOB), part of the Arts Library at Yale, provide important information on activities and people that are currently exhibiting but not yet in the limelight. These files also document lesser known artists and exhibition spaces.
Women Artists Archives Directory
The Women Artists Archives National Directory, an innovative web directory to U.S. archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists active in the U.S. since 1945.
Critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies
published by the College Art Association. One can search by category to help review newer books.
Finding Newspapers:
Foreign Newspapers in UA Library collection- List of newspapers by country and city of newspaers in UA collection in microfilm/microfiche or currently received.
Independent Mexico in Newspapers: The Nineteenth Century- Guide to Microfilm Set.
Listed newspapers can be borrowed via InterLibrary Loan.
Atlanta Constitution (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of the Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1925.
Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of the Chicago Tribune, 1849-1985.
Los Angeles Times
Full text, full image, and fully searchable of the LA Times, 1881-1984.
New York Times (ProQuest) [TIPS]
Full Text images of almost all pages of the New York Times and fully searchable, 1851-2001.
Proquest Historical Newspapers (New York Times, LA Times, Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post)
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of all these newspapers simultaneously.
For dates of coverage see individual titles this page.
The Times (London)
Full text, full image, and fully searchable of The Times. Covers 1785-1984.
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of the Washington Post, 1877-1989.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and WorldCat- to identify foreign newspapers and request via Interlibrary Loan.
- To identify newspapers not in UA collection.
- To search for newspapers from a particular location,
type: name of city or country followed by the word "newspapers." - ILL request for newspapers not owned by UA library should be made as though you are requesting a book.
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Software for creating Citations and Bibliographies:
RefWorks/Write-n-Cite - RefWorks is a web-based citation manager program available to UA faculty, staff and students. It allows one to import citations from many of our databases, or input them manually, and then create bibliographies automatically in the desired style format. (See a list of the available style formats supported by RefWorks.)
Write-n-Cite is a related software program that can be downloaded and installed from the Refworks site. This program works within MS Word as you write your paper to allow you to access your citations stored in RefWorks and to automatically create footnotes and a bibliography.
See our RefWorks Guide for further information. A great FAQ.
Refworks Export Instructions These instructions will show you the export methods of each database at U of A library. Most databases are self explanatory, a few have additional steps.
NEW SITE ON CAREERS IN ART:
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