LibGuides: Art & Art History Databases: Art & Art History Databases

Art & Art History Databases @ SUNY Cortland

Subject specific databases are especially good for indepth research about your topic.

ARTstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Art images with description information.

Fine Arts and Music Collection

Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas and more. Full-text articles from over 330 journals. High-quality indexing of nearly 700 periodicals. Periodical coverage dating as far back as 1910.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles covering many areas of study. Also includes images previously available in ARTstor.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles relating to the humanities and social sciences.
WorldCat (First Search) This link opens in a new window
Global catalog of books. Browse books and click to request a book through Resource Sharing.

Open Web Databases

archINFORM
An international architecture database that allows you to search by person, location, and keyword.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) & Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) (Citation and abstract only - no full text)
RILA covers the years 1975–1989. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. No Full Text.
Rhizome Artbase
Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art containing over 2,500 art works. Encompassing a vast range of projects from artists all over the world, the ArtBase provides an online home for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends.

General Databases

To find articles on specific topics, start with an article database that covers many subject areas. Searches in databases like Academic Search Complete provide citations and/or full-text articles.

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles covering many areas of study.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles covering many areas of study.
Gale General OneFile This link opens in a new window
Magazine and news articles covering many areas of study.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles covering many areas of study. Also includes images previously available in ARTstor.
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
Magazine articles, e-books, images, and primary source documents.
Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles published by SAGE; covers many areas of study.
Westlaw Campus Research - Legal, Business and News This link opens in a new window
Statutes and caselaw at federal and state levels, company profiles, and national and international news articles.

Further Research

Try the Art Research Guide to find more resources!