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Browse the list of specialized indexes in the Art and Architecture section of the Databases search.
Or click on any of the titles below to launch individual databases. Due to licensing restrictions, access is restricted in most cases to Cornell University community members.
- Art Bibliographies ModernAbstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, & exhibition reviews. Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography covered from 1839 to the present.
A particular emphasis is placed on adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Approximately 13,000 new entries added yearly.
- Art & Architecture SourceThis database covers a broad range of subjects from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. It features full-text articles as well as detailed indexing and abstracts for an array of journals, books, podcasts and more. International in scope, Art Source includes periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch and is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
- Art RetrospectiveArt Index Retrospective is available on WilsonWeb, CD-ROM, and magnetic tape and provides searchable indexing spanning 55 years of art journalism from 420 noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 through 1984. Art Index Retrospective cites sources published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as English. In addition to periodicals, users will find data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
- Avery Index to Architectural PeriodicalsThe Avery periodical index offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Avery indexes not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Expanded coverage includes obituary citations. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.
- Bibliography of the History of ArtA database search engine covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present, indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.
- PASCAL FRANCISA searchable archive of two databases, FRANCIS (1972-2015) and PASCAL (1984-2015). FRANCIS covers 15 disciplines in human and social sciences with 2.6 million bibliographic references since 1972. PASCAL gathers 20 million bibliographic references in science, technology, and medicine. Emphasis on European academic journals.
- Humanities International IndexIndexes articles and books across the arts and humanities disciplines from a multitude of U.S. and international publications. HII also provides citations for original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Many links to full text.
- International Bibliography of ArtCitations encompass fine arts in all media (from painting and sculpture to video and new media), decorative arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, folk art, material culture, classical studies, antiques, and architectural history.
- JSTORJSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business, and other fields. It includes the following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science, Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature.
- KUBIKATArt Libraries Network, Florence. Includes the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, and the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome.
Special features of this union catalogue are coverage of articles in periodicals, proceedings, exhibition catalogues, festschriften etc. as well as intense subject indexing. The database is improving with the retrospective conversion of the thematic card catalogues.
Since december 2005 the Union Catalogue comprises also articles from E-Journals, they are indexed by ZI within the scope of the project of arthistoricum.net (module ARTicles online).
As of March 2010, the database contained about 1,489,580 titles, including 777,580 articles. It is also target system of artlibraries.net - Virtual Catalogue for Art History.
- MLA International BibliographyThe premier scholarly bibliography covering languages, literatures, folklore, film and linguistics from all over the world. Online coverage back to 1926. Includes books, articles in books, and journal articles. Does not index book reviews.
- Project MUSESearchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)A component of Web of Science -- AHCI offers multidisciplinary journal coverage of the arts & humanities. It can also be searched by cited references to specific works that appear in article bibliographies. Coverage range is1975 - date. From the main Web of Science search screen, select More Settings, and uncheck all but the AHCI checkbox.
- Iter : gateway to the Middle Ages and RenaissanceA bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. Includes articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, editions, abstracts, discographies, and notes.
Experimental journal indexes
- Contemporary Culture Indexindex small and influential publications that are no longer published, especially those originating from artists or cultural producers rather than from conventional academic processes.
comprises two parts:
ccindex database: a standard bibliographical tool for research.
ccindex infoweb: an illustrated and annotated web operation about the periodicals indexed in the database, and the self-reflective processes involved in its production. - Artist JournalsAn index to selected artist journals of the 1960s and 1970s. Currently issues one thru nine of Avalanche (New York: 1970-1976) are indexed and information from other issues is being added daily. The table of contents of each issue of dé-coll/age (Cologne: 1962-1969) are included in the index as well. This journal will be fully indexed at a later date.
Articles: Select and search appropriate databases to discover useful articles
Use Articles & Full text, to cast a broad net by searching a number of article citation sources all at once.
Article Databases & Indexes
Use art-focused databases to try more targeted, deeper searching:
For more precise searching, search databases individually. From the list of databses, browse the list of specialized indexes in Art and Architecture. Periodical indexes (in databases) identify and locate the articles published in magazines, journals and newspapers. Many databases also index essays, book chapters and monographs.
Some—but not all—databases provide full-text articles. If the database does not provide full-text, but does give you a citation, click on the Get it! Cornell link to see if there is full text access through another database. If that doesn't work, note the full article citation. Then, go back to the catalog and search for the title of the journal the article appears in. The catalog will indicate which issues of the journal Cornell holds in both print and electronic forms. The full text of the article may be available through a different database.
European indexes
If you are researching European subjects, you may want to try some of the following freely-available, electronic indexes:
Arthistoricum.net : ARTicles online
ARTicles online is an excerpt from KUBIKAT, the online catalogue of the Art Libraries Network Florence - Munich - Rome, which is also covered in artlibraries.net - Virtual Catalogue for Art History (see below).
Meta Search
Coordinated by artlibraries.net, an international working community of more than 100 art libraries from 16 countries, the Art Discovery Group Catalogue offers an art-focused research experience within the WorldCat environment. Art library catalogues are now searchable alongside additional content from a multitude of online journals and databases, promising more results on a global scale. The project has been developed as part of The Future of Art Bibliography initiative, with generous support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and The Getty Research Institute.
Note: To include Cornell content in your search, be sure to select "Libraries Worldwide" from the search limit menu, as shown below
JSTOR & Muse: Full-text collections
- JSTOR: the scholarly journal archiveA full-text collection containing the back issues of hundreds of scholarly journals. Most of the articles are at least five years old. Since it is searching the full text, be sure to use the Advanced Search function to narrow down results as much as possible. It is not uncommon to get search results of many thousands of hits in JSTOR.
- ProjectMuseA full-text collection of recently published articles in the social sciences and humanities. Covers recent issues of many journals that may not appear in JSTOR.