Art History Research Methods

A comprehensive resource for art information featuring high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating back to 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations, and indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions, which provide examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.

Art Index Retrospective: 1929 -1984 provides users access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews.

The world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.

Multidisciplinary index to research journals in the arts and humanities.

Abstracts and some full-text of dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

A Google search engine for scholarly content on the web.

Full of scholarly journals in the humanities.

Excellent when researching objects in major museums; Provides full-text scholarly articles; Content is only as current as up to 5 years ago.
- Search Tip: "object title" AND artist's last name AND "museum name"
- Search Tip: Use clues gathered at the museum and Oxford Art Online as search terms.

An online collection of full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.