Art Subject Guide
Indexes to Articles
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Finding Articles on a Subject
To locate articles on a topic related to the visual arts, you can use several indexes to periodical literature. These indexes are available in print and electronic forms. To use one of the electronic indexes, you must enter Research Resources on the Library Home page. Select Article Indexes and Databases, then Art from the subject menu on the left side of the page. You can then choose a database to work with. In each database, try author, title, and subject searches. If you are not sure what terms to enter for these searches, go to a keyword search. Both print and electronic sources are listed below.
Indexes more than 400 of the leading journals in the arts, including areas such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, film, folk art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, musicology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Coverage is from 1984 with abstracts since 1994. Updated monthly.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
This index covers back issues of Art Index and includes citations from over 420 periodicals in English and other languages. Covering fine, decorative and commercial art, it also indexes reproductions of art works appearing in these periodicals.
Indexes from the table of contents pages over 16,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. No abstracts. Coverage from 1990 to the present. Updated daily.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
(Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Bibliography of the History of Art
A free, searchable index of more than 1,200 journals in European and American art. Coverage from 1990 to 2009.
Bibliography of the History of Art (Print)
Z 5937 .B53 (Waldo Reference) This print work was discontinued and is being continued in an online version.
Full-text access to selected scholarly journals in a number of humanities and social sciences disciplines. Search by individual title or in the whole collection. This database contains only back issues and does not include issues of the most recent 3 to 5 years.