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Art Full Text openURL Some full text available
A comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations.
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An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.
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The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.


Humanities International Complete Some full text available
Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Brill's New Pauly : Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World
Print Location: Reference DE5 .N4913 2002
This multivolume encyclopedia is the most extensive, scholarly reference work in English on all aspects of the ancient Greco-Roman world.  It can be a great help in understanding the political, social, and cultural history of the time in which the art was created.
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Over 600 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.
Classical Studies: a guide to the reference literature.
Print Location: Reference PA 91 J45 1996

Dictionary of Art. (Grove Dictionary of Art)
Print Location: Reference N 31 D5 1996
This 34 volume set covers all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, and the decorative arts.  It includes articles on visual art from the prehistoric times to the present, biographies of artists, and 15,350 illustrations. Coverage is worldwide in scope--from Oceania to North America to Japan and Africa.
Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology -
Print Location: Reference DE 5 .E5 1996

Online Book Collection

eBook Collection (EBSCO) Some full text available
This EBSCOhost eBook collection provides access to over 138,000 titles covering a wide variety of subject areas. It is comprised of the following sub-collecctions:

      eBook Academic Collection
      eBook Clinical Collection
      eBook Community College Collection
      eBook High School Collection
      eBook K-8 Collection
      eBook Public Library Collection

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ChoiceReviewsOnline Some full text available
Includes access to entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988, updated monthly.  Reviews significant books and resources of interest to those in higher education.
Google Scholar
Scholarly journal articles on all subjects, some are full text; many have links to cited references.

Web Sites

Ancient Greek World
A virtual gallery from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Art History Resources on the Web
Links are arranged by time periods, Prehistoric to 20th Century. This site is maintained by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College.
ArtCyclopedia
A searchable guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.
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A few examples of core journals
  • American Journal of Archaeology
  • Antiquity
  • Hesperia
  • Journal of Hellenic Studies
  • Journal of Roman Studies
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