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Description: Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines. Contains nearly 12,000 publications, including more than 6,300 peer-reviewed publications. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

SPONSORED BY: VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia.
Description: Access World News is a full-text database of over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources.  Search by state, country, or region of the world.  This database contains full-text of the Harrisonburg Daily News Record and the Staunton Daily News Leader.  Special Reports provide organized introductions to the most current topics.
A tutorial is available.
Description: Collection of over 2100 books of high quality in the humanities online. These are works of major importance to humanities studies; books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
Description: Collection of over 200 documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory, and practice of art, design, and architecture.
Cross-searchable in VAST: Academic Video Online with other JMU-licensed streaming video collections from Alexander Street Press.
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles and reproductions from art periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles.
Formerly on the HW Wilson platform.
Description: ARTbibliographies Modern provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.  Coverage focuses on the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. Coverage also includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

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Description: Image database containing over 1 million images from art, architecture, music, anthropology, world history and more.  Collections are made up of contributions from museums, libraries, artists' estates, photographers, and scholars from all over the world.
ARTstor is now accessible on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.  Click here for more information.
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Description: Information about associations and professional societies, listings for nonprofit membership organizations of U.S. national, regional, state, and local, or international scope; in addition to 144,000 listings of the Encyclopedia of associations (EA) series, nearly 456,000 additional nonprofit organizations have been added to this database.
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Description: Indexes journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It indexes over seven hundred American and international journals. Coverage is 1934 - current, with selective coverage back to 1741

Avery Index also contains references to more than thirteen thousand obituary citations thereby providing architects, architectural historians, and researchers with an excellent source of biographical and professional information about architects. Among the obituaries indexed are those from four crucial American periodicals since their inception: American Architect (1876), Architectural Forum (1892), Architectural Record (1891), and Progressive Architecture (1920). The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects is indexed as far back as 1865, providing an extensive record of English architects.

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Description: Indexes and abstract articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibitions and dealer's catalogs. This extensive and comprehensive index covers European and American art from late antiquity to 2009. The Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.  Note: this database stopped being updated in 2009.
Description:

Great source for published literature on Mesoamerica with links to online publications.
Description: This digital image database offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources. The library presently consists of works from Europe, including ancient Greece and Rome; North America, including Pre-Columbian (Meso-American) art; Asia, including ancient Asia Minor; Africa, including ancient Egypt; South America; and Oceania. Photographs, prints, sculpture, paintings, decorative arts and objects, costume, jewelry, textiles, and architecture are included. This database is based on a previous collection known as AMICO.
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Description: Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) provides abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. Covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.

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Description: Over 70,000 full text books from scholarly publishers in academic disciplines.  Download e-books to e-readers from ebrary; see our FAQ for more details.
Description: Films on Demand is a streaming video resource containing thousands of educational videos in the Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, and Health & Medicine.  Also includes access to archival films and newsreels.  Searchable/viewable by full title or segments.  Create playlists, tag favorites, and set preferences with a free individual user account.

Windows Media or QuickTime needed to view videos.
Description: Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam, the Middle East, and other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
Description: Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, anthropology, sociology, education, literature, sciences and other fields. Consult the tables of contents for online holdings. Retrospective coverage varies for each title, but generally begins with the first issue published. For current issues (2 to 5 years from the present), look for print holdings in Periodical Locator.

Electronic handouts for JSTOR users: http://www.jstor.org/about/handouts.html (PDF format).
Description: Cross-collection search of digital images and videos from selected JMU Digital Collections including Art History, the Breeze, JMU Photography, Madison Art, and Online Video Collection.
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Description: An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences, OmniFile Full Text Mega combines the full text versions of Education Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts and Business Abstracts. In addition, it includes the full text subset of Applied Science & Technology Abstracts, Art Abstracts, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books and Library Literature & Information Science.
Formerly on the HW Wilson platform.
Description: An encyclopedia of covering art and artists worldwide. It is a "comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s." It represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world. Provides various searching capabilities including a search index and an artist browse option. 

This database contains Grove Art Online, The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001), The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (M. Clarke & D. Clarke).
Description: Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects.

SPONSORED BY: VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia.
Description: The  "front file" of approximately 200 titles of core scholarly books in four disciplines (economics and finance; philosophy; political science; and religion and theology) cross-indexed and fully searchable.
Note that our subscription includes full text from May 2006 to most recent update in the Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion & Theology collections. 
Description: An index of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.

SPONSORED BY: VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia.
Description: Safari Books Online is a fully-searchable e-reference library that houses a vast collection of technical and business related books from industry-leading publishers. Search across the full text of thousands of books to find the book, chapter and section you need. Or, browse books by category to research any technical or business topic. Publishers include Sun, O'Reilly, Microsoft, Macromedia, and New Riders.  See our FAQs for more information.

Note: The new interface relies heavily on Flash, so if there are problems, the first possible solution is to make sure you have the latest version of Flash installed: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html.

To use the mobile site, please visit http://m.proquest.safaribooksonline.com on your mobile device.  Must be on JMU Official Wireless or authenticated from off campus with the Junos Pulse app.

SPONSORED BY: VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia
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Jennifer Klotz
email: klotzjm
  
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