Research Guides: Art &amp; Art History: Databases

Databases by Academic Discipline

Art Full Text + Art Index Retrospective (EBSCO)
Essential art history index for finding scholarly articles dating as far back as 1923. Covers all periods and art media. Includes the following collections: Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) on OpenBibArt
An open-access art-historical database. OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.

International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (ProQuest)
Began indexing in 2007 after the cessation of Bibliography of the History of Art, and has the same editorial policies.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest)
Excellent source for art and photography made after 1850, especially for finding articles on contemporary art and artists.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (ProQuest)
Articles on the applied arts and design.
AATA Online
Database of abstracts of materials related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Includes all of Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts and IIC Abstracts

KubiKat
Catalog of several major German art research centers. It has books in all languages, as well as including journal articles. Especially strong in the art of Germany and Italy.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest)
Comprehensive database of architecture articles.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Essential international index to works about language and literature, produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Includes the following collection: MLA Directory of Periodicals.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (EBSCO)
Resources on all aspects of theatre and the performing arts.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database (ProQuest)
From 1864 to current.
Film & Television Literature Index (EBSCO)
Bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications.
Screen Studies Collection (ProQuest)
Current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. Includes the following collections: AFI Catalog, FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database, Film Index International

Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury Fashion Central)
Database of integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Access note: The library provides access to content in the Berg Fashion Library module of Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
Bloomsbury Design Library
Bloomsbury Design Library provides international and scholarly coverage of design and crafts, from 1500 BCE to the present day.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (ProQuest)
Articles on the applied arts and design.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest)
Comprehensive database of architecture articles.

Oxford Music Online
Includes Grove Music Online, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Bloomsbury Music and Sound
Collection of reference content, scholarship, and a variety of learning resources across a range of subject areas in music and sound studies.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (EBSCO)
Starting point for research in music.
Music & Performing Arts Collection (ProQuest)
Cross-searchable bibliographies in music and performing arts, with full-text from hundreds of journals. Includes the following collections: Music Periodicals Database, Performing Arts Periodicals Database

Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)
Covers the history of the world (except for the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
Most important for secondary sources on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

PhilPapers
Philosophy articles organized by philosophers.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials (EBSCO)
Content in all fields of religion, representing all major religious faiths, denominations, and language groups.
Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCO)
Guide to contemporary Jewish affairs.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) (EBSCO)
The most comprehensive index of Asian studies in the humanities and social sciences, with coverage from 1971-present.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (EBSCO)
Index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, from 1900 to the present.
Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Spanish-language journal articles from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx people in the United States.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (EBSCO)
Index of works about American Indians from 1500 to the present.

Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Abstracts and citations to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Useful for human computer interaction. Covers psychology and psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, anthropology, business, law, and similar disciplines.
Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture from the late 19th century to the present.
Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
Includes latest scholarship in feminist research.
Bloomsbury Food Library
Interdisciplinary collection of food studies content covering a wide range of subjects such as history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, literary studies, political science, and development studies.

Databases by Art Historical Period

New Pauly Online (Brill)
Covers Greco-Roman antiquity including religions, culture, and history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Contains the original English edition of Der Neue Pauly and supplemental materials.
Beazley Archive
Databases useful for research in classical art, including information about Greek pottery, gems, Etruscan terracotta, along with bibliographies and a dictionary.
L'Année Philologique
Citations to scholarly works relating to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization from prehistory through 800 AD.
Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture from the late 19th century to the present.
Online Egyptological Bibliography
The Online Egyptological Bibliography offers a large collection of references in Egyptological literature. It includes the records and abstracts from Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB, 1947-2001), the Bibliographie Altgypten (BA, 1822-1946), the Aigyptos database with keywords, as well as additional sources. Coverage is from 1822 to the present.
JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

Brepolis Medieval & Early Modern Bibliographies
Secondary sources on the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).
Includes the following collections:
Index of Medieval Art
This collection includes images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Art Full Text + Art Index Retrospective (EBSCO)
Essential art history index for finding scholarly articles dating as far back as 1923. Covers all periods and art media. Includes the following collections: Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Historical writing dealing with the British Isles and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)
Covers the history of the world (except for the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.

ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest)
Excellent source for art and photography made after 1850, especially for finding articles on contemporary art and artists.

ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest)
Excellent source for art and photography made after 1850, especially for finding articles on contemporary art and artists.

America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
Most important for secondary sources on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (EBSCO)
Index of works about American Indians from 1500 to the present.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) (EBSCO)
The most comprehensive index of Asian studies in the humanities and social sciences, with coverage from 1971-present.
Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Spanish-language journal articles from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx people in the United States.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (EBSCO)
Index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, from 1900 to the present.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (EBSCO)
Index of works about American Indians from 1500 to the present.
Bibliografa Mesoamericana
Mesoamerican Anthropology, Art, Architecture, Archaeology
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials (EBSCO)
Content in all fields of religion, representing all major religious faiths, denominations, and language groups.

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Multidisciplinary Databases

Google Scholar Tool to search for scholarly documents across the web, with an added feature of CU Full Text links.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) Citation information for scholarly journals.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Multidisciplinary index to thousands of popular and scholarly journals, including engineering trade journals, from 1975 to current.
Humanities Full Text (EBSCO) Full-text articles and indexing of academic journals covering a broad range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Includes the following collections: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson), Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)

JSTOR

JSTOR
JSTOR is an online archive of scholarly materials and it searches articles through the full text, unlike many other databases. However JSTOR includes fewer journals on any specific subject than the subject databases does, and is lacking the most recent 5 years of articles.