Art & Art History Research Guide: Starting Your Research

Access to art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

Full text database of over 300 scholarly periodicals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Access is also available in Electronic Collections Online via First Search.

1910-present
Citations/abstracts for scholarly journals, books, dissertations covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.

1949-present
More than 1 million citations from international titles and multi-author works in religion; includes citations to essays and book reviews

Use a Google Scholar search to link to many articles available freely on the web or through the library. You can request articles not available on the web through interlibrary loan to have them delivered to you by email.

1971-present
Citations/abstracts to articles in scholarly journals, books, and dissertations covering world history and culture from 1450 to the present (does not include U.S. and Canadian history)