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Articles (from journals)

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

Useful for GenEd topics. Provides full text, peer-reviewed articles. Try Check for Full Text @JMU for online articles when html or pdf full text not available. TIP: Search Academic Search Premier and Art Abstracts simultaneously using Choose Databases tab. [more info]

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Art Abstracts (EBSCO)

Useful for art majors. Good source for non-western art and art reviews. Option to limit search to peer-reviewed articles. Use Check for Full Text @ JMU for online articles. TIP: Search Academic Search Premier and Art Abstracts simultaneously using Choose Databases tab. [more info]

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Artbibliographies Modern (ProQuest)

Best for modern and contemporary arts (late 19th century onwards). International coverage. Use Check for Full Text @ JMU for online articles. [more info]

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Major Journals

JSTOR

Online, full text articles from older issues of scholarly journals in the arts. Use Basic Search to search ARTstor images and JSTOR articles with one seach. TIP: Use the Periodical Locator to find current issues of journals found in JSTOR. [more info]

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OmniFile Full Text Mega (EBSCO)

Online, full text articles from peer-reviewed journals and popular magazines in the arts. [more info]

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Project Muse (John Hopkins University Press)

Online, full text articles from scholarly journals in the arts. [more info]

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Best Bets

Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press)

Great place to start your research! Extensive coverage of world art. Encyclopedia with scholarly articles, ready-reference definitions, and essays on art. [more info]

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JSTOR

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Biography

Oxford Reference Online (Oxford University Press)

Biographies: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Oxford Companion to the Garden, Oxford Companion to the Photograph, and Oxford Companion to Western Art. Dictionaries: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Oxford Dictionary of Art, Dictionary of Modern Design, Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. [more info]

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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, & Almanacs

Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press)

Great place to start your research! Extensive coverage of world art. Encyclopedia with scholarly articles, ready-reference definitions, and essays on art. [more info]

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Oxford Reference Online (Oxford University Press)

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Books / Book Chapters

ACLS Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies)

Online, full text, fully searchable books in the arts and humanities. [more info]

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eBrary Academic Complete (ProQuest)

Online, full text, fully searchable books in the arts and other subjects. [more info]

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Oxford Scholarship Online (Oxford University Press)

Online, full text, fully searchable books in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. [more info]

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Reviews

Access World News (NewsBank)

To find art and exhibition reviews, use advance search. Enter the artist or exhibition name (in quotes) with option in all text and "art" with option in Section. [more info]

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Art Abstracts (EBSCO)

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Images

ARTstor

Over a million digital images in art, architecture and archeology with tools for using the images in teaching and learning. License limited to noncommercial, educational use. [more info]

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CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) (OCLC / Firstsearch)

Digital images of art from around the world with rights-cleared for class projects, lectures, and presentations. [more info]

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Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) (James Madison University)

JMU digital images collections including JMU Art and Art History Digital Image Collection, Histology Collection, JMU Photography Collection, Madison Art Collection, and faculty personal collections. MDID includes tools for creating slideshows for classroom presentations. [more info]

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Videos

Art & Architecture in Video Online (Alexander Street Press)

Access to this specific video collection is now only available through Academic Video Online (VAST). Please use the limiters within VAST to search specific video collections. Collection of over 200 documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory, and practice of art, design, and architecture. [more info]

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Films on Demand

A streaming video resource containing thousands of educational videos in 8 subject areas. Includes access to archival films and newsreels. [more info]

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Professional Organizations

Associations Unlimited (Gale)

Information about associations and professional societies, listings for nonprofit membership organizations. Before using this resource, be certain of your SIC industry classification code. For a tutorial, click here. [more info]

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