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Indexes for Art

Art Abstracts
Covers more than 285 periodicals 1984 to present. Updated monthly. Provides citations, abstracts, and some full text.

Art Retrospective
Covers more than 285 periodicals 1929-1984. Provides citations and abstracts. Note: Art  Retrospective will allow only one person at a time to use the database.

Bibliography of the History of Art  (1973 -present) The most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. Encompasses the fine arts as well as decorative and applied arts.

JSTOR holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, and offers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Of the available JSTOR collections, Milner has two multi-disciplinary collections (Arts and Sciences I and II) and four discipline-specific collections (Ecology & Botany, General Science, Language & Literature, and Music) for a total of 445 academic journals.

Oxford Art Online
Provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Turner (1996, 34 vols.), the Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Brigstocke (2001), the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Conscise Oxfore Dictionary of Art Terms; ongoing addtions of new articles, 5,000 searchable images displayed in the text of articles and image links. Note: the current subscription allows 8 users at a time to access the database.

Humanities Abstracts
Covers archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology, and related subjects. 1984 to present. Updated Monthly. Provides citations, abstracts. 

Project Muse
Provides full text access to scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences and mathematics published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage period variable. Update period is also variable. Provides citation, abstracts, and full text.

Academic Search Premier
Covers 1,250 journals and periodicals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. Provides citations, abstracts, and full text.

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