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Librarian for Art History

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Search for Articles
Use the databases below as a starting point to identify scholarly journal articles on your topic; for a more comprehensive list, consult Research Tools: Journal Articles.

Art Full Text
Covering journals published from 1985 to the present, look here for citations and some full text of scholarly and popular journals in the field; for older articles from these journals, search Art Index Retrospective below.
Art Index Retrospective
Covering journals published from 1929 to 1984, look here for citations and some full text of scholarly and popular journals in the field.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
Look here for scholarly articles published from 2008 to the present; for older materials in the same sources, use BHA below.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Preceding IBA, above, use this index for scholarly articles published between 1975 and 2007.
JSTOR
Search this archive of full-text scholarly journals spanning a number of disciplines.

Background Information
Use the databases below to find definitions and other basic information about your topic; for a more comprehensive list, consult Research Tools: Background Information

Oxford Art Online
Start here for background information on artists, artistic media, and art movements. This tool comprises these important reference works: Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Find basic information and clarify terms in any field of study.
Wikipedia
Use cautiously for quick information - but verify in scholarly resources if used for research.

Kubicat
Search the collective catalog systems of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Bibliotheca Hertziana, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome.