Titles by Subject - Visual Arts
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Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
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Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) is a multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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| Artcyclopedia | The Artcyclopedia indexes over 700 arts sites to create a searchable database of visual arts images, information about visual arts and locations of original works. (http://artcyclopedia.com) |
| BigChalk eLibrary |
BigChalk eLibrary serves as a starting point for student inquiry. eLibrary features a powerful user interface designed to make research easy. Students find the answers they need from more than 2,500 fulltext magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts - plus thousands of pictures, maps, web links, and audio/video files.
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Britannica Online includes the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, the Britannica Student Encyclopaedia, and the Britannica Book of the Year. It also provides an Internet directory to more than 300,000 sites selected by Britannica editors. This is also filed under Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Ebrary is a comprehensive subscription database of e-books and other authoritative materials that includes more than 37,000 titles in 16 key subject areas. Students will need to download the ebrary reader onto their computer in order to read the available items. There is a download tab on the main page of ebrary that you may click to download.
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| Encyclopaedia Britannica | Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, the Britannica Student Encyclopaedia, and the Britannica Book of the Year. It also provides an Internet directory to more than 300,000 sites selected by Britannica editors. This is also filed under Britannica Online. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) provides information on topics from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. This database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
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| Films On Demand | Films On Demand offers streaming educational videos in a variety of subjects, including the humanities, social sciences, business, science, math, health and medicine. |
| Fine Arts and Music Collection | Fine Arts and Music Collection (InfoTrac) has more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM. This collection provides resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
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General OneFile (InfoTrac) is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
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General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac) is a general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
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| Google Art Project | Google Art Project provides images from seventeen museums across the world. Users can zoom in on selected works, review information about the artwork and find out more about the creating artist. (http://www.googleartproject.com) |
| IPL2 | The Internet Public Library (IPL2) provides a free index for online resources covering a wide range of subjects. The user can browse by subject and by audience. (http://ipl.org) |
| JSTOR |
JSTOR provides access to archived backfiles of journals in arts & sciences, language & literature, general science, ecology & botany, and music. The full-text of journals is provided for each title beginning with Volume 1. Recent volumes may or may not be included, depending on the agreement between JSTOR and the publishers. Some titles may be from 2 to 5 years behind current publishing. Journals may be browsed or searched.
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NetLibrary contains electronic books you can read online. Through our subscription with NetLibrary, you have access to over 19,000 books covering a wide variety of issues. ***NetLibrary is now owned by EBSCO.***
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OAIster is a combined library catalog describing the digital collections of a number of libraries. Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of electric refrigerators (from the Library of Congress American Memory project) to Harriet Beecher Stowe memoirs (from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service Making of America collection). This resource provides access to resources from the "deep web" that are not normally returned by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Some resources linked may have restricted access. (http://oaister.worldcat.org/)
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| Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg is a collection of free digitized books whose copyright has expired. It contains more than 100,000 online books, which can be read on your screen or downloaded to an ebook reader. |
| Project Muse | Project Muse provides full-text access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
| Visual Arts Data Service | Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is a searchabout collection of images "covering all subject areas of the visual arts, from textiles to architecture, including their practise, study and curation." (http://www.vads.ac.uk/index.php) |
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WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text (now owned by EBSCO) dramatically expands your periodical resources with electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject.
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| World Book Encyclopedia | World Book Online provides online access to the popular encyclopedia. |