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Art databases

Need a good starting point?
Try searching several databases at once:

ONEsearch


Search example: women painters france
Use Advanced for more ONEsearch features. [Tips]

Prefer a more in-depth, precise search? Try searching individual databases:

Primary databases

 
Art Full Text
Indexes art publications from around the world, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins [More info]

Art education

For art education, see our list of education databases.

More general databases with some coverage of art

Academic Search Premier
An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines [More info]
 
Arts & Humanities Citation Index [password required]
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals [More info]
 
Expanded Academic ASAP
A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics [More info]
 
JSTOR
An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes a number of art journals. [More info]
 
MasterFILE Premier
A multidisciplinary database designed specifically for public libraries [More info]
 
Project MUSE
Contains the full text of more than 120 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from a variety of publishers [More info]

E-Books and other resources

Collections of online encylopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.:
 
For additional resources, see our subject guide for art history.