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Art History Subject Guide
Databases
| AKL Online: World Biographical Dictionary of Artists |
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The Künstlerlexikon der Antike (Dictionary of Artists of the Classical World) and volumes 1-43 of the Allgemeines Kunstlerlexicon Internationale (World Biographical Dictionary of Artists) together in one site.
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| Art Abstracts |
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Indexes and abstracts articles in the Fine and Applied Arts, including Design, published internationally from 1984 onwards. |
| Art Full Text |
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Based on Art Abstracts with full coverage for selected periodicals. |
| Art Index Retrospective |
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A bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984.
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| Artbibliographies Modern (ABM) |
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Abstracts of the current literature of Modern Art, Architecture, Photography and Design sourced from journals, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, dissertations and exhibition reviews.
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| ARTEX |
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The Australian Art Exhibition Catalogues 1990 - 1997 (ARTEX90-97) index lists more than 4,000 Australian art exhibition catalogues published since 1990, including exhibitions held outside Australia. Catalogues are defined as a list of work in an exhibition. |
| ARTstor |
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The collections within ArtStor include Image Gallery (images of world visual art and culture), Art History Survey Collection (key monuments of world art defined by a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts). Includes a repository of many thousands of images and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment aiming to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users. |
| AustArt Index |
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The AustArt Index is produced by staff in the UNSW College of Fine Arts (COFA) Library. It includes references to articles, exhibition reviews and reproductions of work by Australian artists and overseas artists exhibiting in Australia. |
| Australian Art Auction Records |
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The largest and most up-to-date database of Australian and New Zealand paintings sold at auction, from 1973 to date. Includes data on sales records, artist biographical information and auction companies. Only sold paintings and "hammer prices" are listed.
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| Australian Visual Arts Databases |
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A collection of 4 Australian visual arts resources, including ARTEX 90-97, NATSIVAD, AustArt Index and OzBiogs. |
| Bibliography of the History of Art |
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Covering European and American art from antiquity to the present, BHA indexes and abstracts books, periodicals, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition catalogues. |
| COFA Library Databases |
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Videocassette, CD-ROM, CD, audiocassette, newspaper and ephemera indexes produced by the College of Fine Arts Library. |
| Design and Applied Arts Index |
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International index to design and craft journals with data on nearly 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops and firms.
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| Media Art Histories Archive |
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This digital repository is created to allow scholars researching the Histories of Art, Science and Technology to self archive their works on the internet in full or partial text format. All copyrights remain with the author and/or their publisher.The Media Art History Project offers a basis for attempting an evolutionary history of the audiovisual media, from the laterna magica to the panorama, phantasmagoria, film, and the virtual art of recent decades. It is an evolution with breaks and detours; however, all its stages are distinguished by a close relationship between art, science, and technology.
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| NATSIVAD |
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Provides information on more than 1,500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. |
| OzBiogs |
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Compilation of biographical information from 3 databases, NATSIVAD, AustArt and ARTEX, plus additional biographical data sourced by Discovery Media. |
| Virtual Catalogue for Art History (VKK) |
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The Virtueller Katalog Kunstgeschichte (VKK) is a European specialized meta catalogue allowing the integrated retrieval of bibliographic records from a number of web catalogues and, should the occasion arise, other objects of distinctive art historical databases.
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Related Databases
| ABI/INFORM Global |
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Multidisciplinary. Full text is provided for 750 of the 1500 titles indexed and abstracted.
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| Alternative Press Index |
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Covers 250 alternative, radical and left wing publications, including many popular and academic publications not found indexed elsewhere. Includes all articles of more than five paragraphs.
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| America: History & Life |
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Indexes journals, book reviews, dissertations on North American history and culture.
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| American Council of Learned Societies E-Book Project |
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The ACLS History E-Book (HEB) Project launched on its website over 500 books of high quality in the field of history. These are works of major importance to historical studies of books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
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| APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service |
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Multidisciplinary. Indexes Australian newspapers, journals, conference proceedings and books. |
| APAIS Full Text: APAFT |
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Multidisciplinary. Includes many full text articles. |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index |
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Indexes 1,100 international arts and humanities journals. |
| Australian Heritage Bibliography |
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Indexes journals, unpublished reports, books and videos relating to Austalia's natural and cultural environment. |
| Bibliography of Asian Studies |
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Multidisciplinary and international coverage of western-language periodical articles, monographs, conference proceedings and anthologies.
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| Current Contents via ISI |
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Multidisciplinary. Indexes international journals. |
| Defining Gender |
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Online access to over 50,000 images of original documents relating to five centuries of advice literature for men and women. |
| Empire Online |
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Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492 - 1962, taken from libraries and archives around the world. Covers colonial history, politics and society. |
| Education Index |
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International, covering core journals in the education disciplines. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP |
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Multidisciplinary. Includes many full text articles from international journals. |
| Factiva |
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Multidisciplinary. Full text is provided for both national and international newspapers and journals. |
| Historical Abstracts |
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Covers world history from 1450 to the present. Indexes books, journals and dissertations. |
| Humanities Index |
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Full text. International, covering core periodicals in the humanities.
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| Index to Theses |
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Contains records of theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. Corresponds to the printed INDEX TO THESES.
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| JSTOR |
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Full-text multidisciplinary journal articles in the arts and sciences. |
| Libraries Australia (Kinetica) |
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Provides access to several databases, the most important being the National Bibliographic Database, which contains over 9 million bibliographic records of titles held in 850 Australian libraries. |
| Project Muse |
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Provides access to the full text of over 40 international, multidisciplinary John Hopkins University Press academic journals.
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| Proquest Dissertations and Theses |
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Index to PhD and Masters Theses from American and some overseas universities, including UNSW. |
| PsychINFO |
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Indexes international journal articles and book chapters.
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| Reader's Guide Abstracts Full Text: Mega Edition |
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Covers abstracting and indexing for 240 international and multidisciplinary periodicals, as well as the full text of over 100 periodicals. Full text coverage begins in 1994.
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| Scopus |
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature including peer-reviewed titles, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, patent records, scientific web pages, and seamless links to full text articles and other library resources. It is updated daily.
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| Social Science Plus |
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Social Sciences Plus indexes the same 420 multidisciplinary and international titles as for HW Wilsons Social Science Index. Of these, 220 are provided in full text.
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| Social Sciences Index: SSI |
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Core periodicals in various social sciences disciplines. UNSW Library holdings indicated for each citation retrieved.
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| Sociological Abstracts |
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The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations.
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| The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 |
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The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
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| Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega |
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Multidisciplinary, provides abstracts/indexing of 2,730 journals from 1982, and makes the full text of 1,330 of these journals available from 1994 onwards. |
| Women's Resources International |
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Contains a number of databases: Women Studies Abstracts (1984+); Women's Studies Database (1972+); Women's Studies Librarian (1970+) - containing a variety of monographic resources; European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday (1610+); POPLINE subset on Women (1964+); Women of Color and Southern Women (1975+); Women's Health and Development (1995). A total of 186,000 + records are indexed by the above databases. |
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