Getting Started
These databases contain encyclopedia articles. Encyclopedias are useful for getting started as they tend to be relatively easy to read, and cover big topics in a relatively short amount of text. Scholars don't always cite them, rather use them to build a foundation that they build on with scholarly articles and books. However, you'll want to ask your professor if she wants you to cite these.
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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Art Online provides us with access to Grove Art, with tens of thousands of encyclopedia entries providing information on artists, works, schools, and many important places and events in Art History. Many of the more in-depth entries (primarily artists, schools, and important works) include bibliographies to help further your research & understanding.
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Biography in Context This link opens in a new windowThis database contains biographies from reference sources as well as full-text articles from periodicals, allowing you to search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
Diving Deeper
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WorldCat Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
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Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowThis database covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and much more. Includes full text journal articles published after 1997 as well as citations and abstracts for articles, dissertations, reviews, and other literature published after 1984.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
