Research Guides: Object Research: Books & Articles

Art History Databases

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) and Rpertoire international de la littrature de l'art (RILA)
Comprehensive index of art history, from late antiquity to contemporary. Indexing coverage ended in 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.

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.

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

AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
Database of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

Use the following tools to get books from other libraries:

Prospector
Request books from Colorado libraries that will come in just a few days. Use to request books Boulder doesn't have, or that are checked out.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
Use Worldcat to find books from all over the country that you can get via interlibrary loan by clicking "Request from ILLiad":

Google Books and Hathi Trust let you search through the entire text of books and are very useful to finding mentions of specific topics.

HathiTrust
Partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of public domain titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Getty Research Portal
Access digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.
Internet Archive - Ebooks & Texts
The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 10,000,000 fully accessible books and texts.

Europeana Virtual Library
Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, and archives. Searches for digitized books of many of the major libraries of Europe.

You'll notice some changes as we work.

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.

ILLiad
You can request book chapter and journal article scans be emailed to you through ILLiad.