LibGuides: Art History: Databases in Art History and Related Areas

Art History Databases

Art Full Text (formerly Art Abstracts from H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Index & abstracts of art and art history articles. Includes full text
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) This link opens in a new window
Index to art and architecture literature from 1929-1984.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A searchable, multi-disciplinary archive of full text journals.
Bibliography of the History of Art This link opens in a new window
"Abstracts of books, articles, etc. on European and American art."
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text coverage of art and architecture journals.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Contains documentary films on a variety of topics, including art and artists. Some films contain interviews with artists talking about their work.
OpenBibArt This link opens in a new window
"OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS)."

"OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007."

Databases in Related Areas

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Index to articles on a wide variety of topics, some available in full text.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Index to periodical literature on the history of the United States and Canada. Some full text.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to articles on world history, excepting Canada and the United States, from the 15th century to present.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographical database of western-language works on East, Southeast, and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies.
Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes) This link opens in a new window
Access the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Also may be known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WoS, WoK, Web of Knowledge

All Wittenberg Databases

A to Z List of Databases
An alphabetical and searchable list of all the databases to which the Wittenberg community has access.

Obtaining Articles from Other Libraries

Interlibrary Loan

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