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Transitioning to Artstor on JSTOR | JSTOR Images. This resource will migrate to a new platform on June 1, 2024. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
Art and Architecture in Video This link opens in a new window
Includes documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. It addresses art history and theory as well as applied topics such as graphic design.
Art Bibliographies Modern (1974-present) This link opens in a new window
Covers all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the 1970s onwards.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as architecture and architectural design. Includes 600+ full-text journals, 220+ full-text books, and 63,0000+ images. For art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
CARLI Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Includes Saskia Art Images collections and the Sanborn Maps of Illinois, 1867-1970.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
This resource provides full text of journals, books, and other published humanities sources from around the world.
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Academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Excellent starting point for researching an artist, movement or location. Authoritative and clear. Includes images and bibliographies.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Comprehensive timeline of artistic endeavor from prehistory to the present. Includes indexes of artists, subjects and special topics (such as the bikini), pictures, maps, bibliographies and more.
SmartHistory
Art. History.Conversation. Listen to art historians discuss works of art which span thousands of years. Beautifully designed and conversational in tone, this site won the 2009 Webby Education Award.

Art Index
Useful to research artists active in the mid-twentieth century. The Libraries volumes span the years 1929 through 1995.

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