Subject Guides: ARTH-105; Professor Maja Dujakovic: Finding Journal Articles

Best Article Databases

Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Art & Architecture Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new window
This successor database to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) indexes over 500 core journals, plus monographs and conference proceedings. Coverage begins in 2008.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
Full-text of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, plus a collection of more than one million digital art images for teaching and research.
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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present.
**Access limited to 3 concurrent users.**
OpenBibArt: History of Art Bibliography This link opens in a new window
OpenBibArt covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. It indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles published between 1910 and 2007. Its successor is the International Bibliography of Art (IBA) database.
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides access to full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, Ph.D. dissertations, and exhibit reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.