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  • A&AePortal
    E-Book resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design, including out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from academic and museum publishers.
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  • Art & Architecture Complete
    Provides full-text and citations for scholarly journals articles, magazines, exhibition reviews, and trade publications, covering antiques, art, art history, architecture, interior and landscape design, and more. Also includes an image collection.
    Coverage: Details not available.
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  • Art Full Text
    Provides full-text and citations for scholarly journals articles, magazines, exhibition reviews, and trade publications. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in periodicals. Topics covered include antiques, archaeology, art, art history, architecture, folk art, graphic arts, interior and landscape design, movies, and television. Also includes an image collection.
    Coverage: 1929-.
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  • Artstor
    Provides images for use in academic papers and presentations, covering a broad range of subjects beyond art history. Images have been contributed by major museums, institutional archives, personal collections. Artstor is now integrated into the JSTOR platform.
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  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
    Covers all aspects of architecture and architectural history, including design, historic preservation, urban planning, and landscape design.
    Coverage: 1930s-present.
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  • BHA – Bibliography of the History of Art
    Covers international literature on the history of art in Europe and North America from late antiquity to the present. Indexed content covers 1975-2007. Coverage after 2007 is found in the International Bibliography of Art.
    Coverage: 1975-2007.
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  • Getty Open Content
    Hosted by the Getty Research Institute. Search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids. This link initially limits your search to images available for free download under the Getty’s Open Content Program.
    Coverage: Details not available.
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  • Index of Medieval Art
    The Index of Medieval Art contains examples of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and secular art from the late antique period to the sixteenth century.
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  • International Bibliography of Art
    Successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Covers current international literature on the history of art in Europe and the New World from late antiquity to the present. Includes both the fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints) and decorative and applied arts (popular art, folk art). Indexes and abstracts journals, books, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers’ catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications. See BHA for coverage from 1975 to 2007.
    Coverage: 2008-.
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  • Oxford Art Online
    Covers art and culture from prehistory to the 1990s. Its multicultural approach offers detailed analyses of civilizations from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Provides a guide to the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, as well as the decorative arts.
    Coverage: Details not available.
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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History
    Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering the discipline of Art History. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in the history of art.
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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism
    Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Hinduism. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Hindu Studies.
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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Urban Studies
    Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include social sciences as well as architecture, planning, engineering, environmental science, and legal studies.
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  • Oxford Handbooks Online: Archaeology Foundation Collection
    Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Archaeology. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.
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  • Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
    Presents the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust including the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers and artists. Authors and artists represented include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Ruskin, Gainsborough, and others. Also includes over 2,500 fine art pieces from the Wordsworth Trust’s fine art collection.
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