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Research Databases for
Art and Interior Design
Choose from core research databases, related databases, encyclopedias and selected web pages. Librarians are available to suggest research strategies.
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Core Research Databases
Art Full Text
Provides comprehensive indexing for more than 500 international art publications including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. The database also includes the full-text of 200 journals with coverage beginning in 1997.
Type: Full-text
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The index covers architectural and design publications with an American focus. Avery also includes the publications of professional associations, U.S. state and regional periodicals, and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
Type: Index with Citations
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO)
The growing collection contains images of paintings, photographs, sculpture and other media from participating museums and institutions.
Type: Digital Media
Related Databases
Academic Search Complete by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text articles.
Type: Full-text
Article First
A large, multi-disciplinary index covering over 15,000 scholarly and popular journals.
Type: Index with Citations
Environment Abstracts
Provides abstracts from more than 950 journals published in the fields of environmental and sustainability science. Also includes abstracts of Environmental Impact Statements.
Type: Index with Abstracts
GreenFILE
Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing for articles from scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
Type: Index with Citations
JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collection
Provides a retrospective, full-text collection that includes many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Type: Full-text
Mango Languages: Foreign Language Lessons
Provides foreign language and ESL lessons online. Languages include Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and English for foreign speakers.
Type: Digital Media
Encyclopedias
Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online
The thesaurus is sponsored by the Getty Research Institute and contains over 120,000 terms.
Type: Full-text
Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
A concise work featuring discussion of the basic methods of producing art and other non-traditional, modern means.
Type: Full-text
Selected Web Pages
American Society of Interior Designers
Provides related news and information for current and prospective interior designers.
Type: Web Page
Art Images for College Teaching
Provides many images from ancient, medieval, baroque and renaissance time periods. Non-Western resources have been included.
Type: Web Page
Great Buildings Collection
Features a search engine and a browsable interface to find buildings that have been profiled for the web site.
Type: Web Page
InformeDesign
The web site has been created and sponsored to bring research and practice aspects of the design professions together.
Type: Web Page
Timeline of Art History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a Timeline of Art History.
Type: Web Page
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