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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Reference Sources
Artcyclopedia
Search engine providing biographical information about artists, links to museum sites, and images to artists' works on the Web.
Encyclopedia of World Art
Respected multi-volume reference source that provides substantial articles about artists and topics related to art from prehistoric to modern times.
Grove Art Online
Web access to multivolume The Dictionary of Art (N31 .D5 1996 Reference). Includes encyclopedia articles, biographical entires, bibliographies, and links to digital art images.
Credo Reference
Provides electronic access to the full text of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and subject-specific reference books.
Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of more than 56,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, with 10,300 portrait illustrations.
Art Databases
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AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
Database from the Getty Institute of Research with 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

Art Index
Index to major art journals, yearbooks, and museum publications published from 1984 to the present.

Art Index Retrospecitive
Art Index Retrospective indexes art journals, bulletins, art reproductions in journals, and other art resources published between 1929 through 1984.

Art Bibliographies Modern
Indexes journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs and exhibition reviews on all types of modern and contemporary art published from the 1960s to the present.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Indexes art publications and exhibition catalogs published from 1973 to the present. Subject coverage includes European art from late Antiquity to the present, American art from the European arrival to the present, Christian and European art in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Getty Provenance Index Databases
Three separate databases index materials from art sale catalogs from the periods of 1650 - 1840, archival documents of inventioried private collections from France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Spain (art from 1550 - 1840), and public British and American art collections by artists born before 1900 (art from 1550 - 1990).

Getty Research Institute Library Catalog
Catalog of the extensive art subject holdings of the Getty Research institute. Options to limit searches to photo study holdings, special collections, and aution catalogs is available.

International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA)
Indexes art journal articles and other resources published between 1975 to 1989. Indexing covers all aspects of European art and architecture from Late Antiquity to the present. American art is covered from the European arrival (16th century) to the present.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The ITER databases indexes books and journal articles about the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 - 1700).

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Journals
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Art Journals Online at ISR
Electronic journals in art & art history, architecture, and photography, available full-text online to Bucknell faculty, staff, and students.

Aesthetics Online
Articles published by the American Society for Aesthetics

ArtsJournal
Digest of international arts news.

Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art and Technology
A peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary academic journal addressing areas where technology and art intersect. Includes a gallery of archived images, text, audio, and digital resources related to its journal articles.

JSTOR
Archive of full-text journals in art, art history and architecture, some dating to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Leonardo
A searchable online journal covering topics about the arts and music and the application of contemporary science to these arts

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual World Culture
A scholarly, refereed e-journal that is devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.

omj: Open Museum Journal
Publishes scholarly, peer reviewed journal articles about museums.

Philament: an Online Journal of the Arts and Culture
A referred, online journal of cultural studies and literary arts scholarship that is edited and published by the University of Sydney.

PMC: Postmodern Culture
Experimental journal with interdisciplinary humanities topics that include both text and visuals.

Resource Library Magazine America's Magazine for Representational Art
An electronic publication devoted to American representational art, including aspects of both a scholarly journal and a popular magazine.